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  • 1.  How Business Intent drive Product Catalog browsing and configuration

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Dec 14, 2023 04:29

    Hello everyone,

    I would appreciate your support as to understand what are TMF's proposals and guidelines concerning how business intent fits into product catalog module, that is:

    • The business intent is deemed as another entity to be configured inside product catalog module? Are going we to deal with something like Business Intent Specification?
    • What type of relationship should be set up between Business Intent and BPOs/POs as to drive the offer selection according to customer's need? I might think about business rules which are evaluate at run-time according to selected business intent.
    • The TMF679 will be extended as to accept as input the business intent too?

    As usual, thanks in advance for your support!

    Regards,

    Pas


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  • 2.  RE: How Business Intent drive Product Catalog browsing and configuration

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Dec 14, 2023 07:53

    Hi Pasquale

    At the moment, we have Intent in various places in the Open API, including in product catalog at ProductSpecification. But I honestly don't know what exactly the (sorry) intended workflow is for intent at the specification level. It needs more discussion within the Open API team, I feel.



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  • 3.  RE: How Business Intent drive Product Catalog browsing and configuration

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Dec 15, 2023 02:32

    Thanks, Jonathan!

    Any clue, by when such topic will be addressed?

    Regards.

    Pas



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  • 4.  RE: How Business Intent drive Product Catalog browsing and configuration

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Dec 16, 2023 13:03

    Sorry but I don't have any insights into plans for this. 



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  • 5.  RE: How Business Intent drive Product Catalog browsing and configuration

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Dec 18, 2023 08:40

    Hi,

    The "Business Intent" you are referring to in this context will reside in the ODA Functions / IS functions and not in the SID model. 

    Yes. 679 is one of the APIs to implement this. Depending on the "business intent" as you call it, TMF 648 , TMF 663 can be potential candidates. 



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    Sri-Jagadish (Jag) Baddukonda
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