About Provider Functions

Provider functions are processing components that perform a defined set of tasks based on its role in a solution. Design Studio includes the configuration for some provider functions, such as Calculate Service Order, Design and Assign, Calculate Technical Order, and Activation.

Provider functions accept conceptual model entities or the actions that are associated with those entities as input and generate conceptual model entities or their actions as output. The output that provider functions generate is used as input by other, downstream provider functions. Calculate Service Order accepts Product entities as input and generates the service actions associated with customer facing service entities as output. This output is required as input by the Design and Assign provider function, which will generate output that is required by the Calculate Technical Actions provider function.

The types of components that you can define for a conceptual model entity are determined by the input and output types defined in all of the provider function definitions in a workspace.

See Design Studio Concepts for more information about provider functions.