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How NGOSS Compliance Changes the Integration Game By Martin Creaner, Vice President and CTO, TeleManagement Forum OSS vendors’ ranks have thinned somewhat during the recent recession. That notwithstanding, there are still hundreds of OSS companies. Each offers a bewildering array of functionality that delivers tangible value-add to their customers at face value. It is in the end-to-end integration of these disparate point solutions, however, that service providers see value disappearing and costs escalating. Only when this integration problem is overcome will service providers be able to automate their business processes to an extent that cuts significant costs and also delivers new services within a competitive market window. Telecom’s Spring Puts OSS on the Spot No matter how often it happens, people are continually surprised and delighted when the natural cycle of boom and bust turns once more to boom. Like our primitive ancestors awestruck at the coming of spring, to some it is amazing that telecom’s winter has ended and the green shoots of spring are upon us. Spring, of course, brings its own challenges. The entire telecom industry remains highly aware of its recent recession. Service providers must continue to be cost-conscious with capital and operational expenditures, stbut also must tool up – and be nimble enough - to deliver their customers’ complex 21 century services. Service providers need to automate operations, streamline ...