Generic provisioning of heterogeneous services--a close encounter with service profiles Export

@article{citeulike:2363316, abstract = {Efficient and error-free service provisioning is critical to a service provider's business success. Provisioning systems that automate and streamline provisioning processes play, therefore, an important role. This paper presents a generic approach to service provisioning which can be leveraged to build specific provisioning systems. The approach consists of means for the specification of the provisioning process and of a generic provisioning engine that can interpret those specifications and drive the execution of provisioning steps. Also discussed are practical application and experiences with this approach in the building of two real-world provisioning systems for residential subscriber services, respectively, Internet data centers.}, author = {Clemm, Alexander and Shen, Fong and Lee, Victor}, booktitle = {Management of IT Services}, citeulike-article-id = {2363316}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00254-8}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VRG-48GFVKK-1/2/8036d6e7776cdaba261ff05ae5da21cf}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00254-8}, journal = {Computer Networks}, keywords = {network\_mgmt}, month = {September}, number = {1}, pages = {43--57}, posted-at = {2008-02-11 16:53:28}, priority = {3}, title = {Generic provisioning of heterogeneous services--a close encounter with service profiles}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00254-8}, volume = {43}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2363316 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2363316 N2 - Efficient and error-free service provisioning is critical to a service provider's business success. Provisioning systems that automate and streamline provisioning processes play, therefore, an important role. This paper presents a generic approach to service provisioning which can be leveraged to build specific provisioning systems. The approach consists of means for the specification of the provisioning process and of a generic provisioning engine that can interpret those specifications and drive the execution of provisioning steps. Also discussed are practical application and experiences with this approach in the building of two real-world provisioning systems for residential subscriber services, respectively, Internet data centers. IS - 1 JF - Computer Networks EP - 57 TI - Generic provisioning of heterogeneous services--a close encounter with service profiles VL - 43 T2 - Management of IT Services SP - 43 KW - network_mgmt AU - Clemm, Alexander AU - Shen, Fong AU - Lee, Victor PY - 2003/09/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00254-8 ER -