About This Content

This guide provides information about how you use cartridges and cartridge packs with Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM). The guide contains the background and introductory information about the cartridges and cartridge packs, information about the contents of cartridge packs, instructions about deploying cartridges and opening cartridge project archives, instructions about bundling cartridges, information about extending and upgrading cartridges and cartridge packs, and reference information about base cartridges.

Audience

This guide is intended for:

• Administrators who deploy cartridges in test and production environments

• Business analysts who require information about solutions can be implemented and deployed

• Developers and modelers who design and implement solutions

• Developers and modelers who customize and extend cartridge packs

This guide assumes that you have a working knowledge of UIM.

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