Provisioning Systems: Easy-to-change, Lazy Update Data Management

Customer satisfaction and loyalty strongly depend on the timely deployment of new services. Integrating and launching these new services quickly in Network Elements (NE) is the key to success – no easy task in a heterogeneous environment made up of different technologies.

Crucial momentum for efficient activation of new services is provided by a powerful database in the provisioning system. Updates of the NE configurations have to be carried out quickly and smoothly. Regardless of the extent of the update or the frequency, the running system cannot be limited in any way.

Versant Object Database provides all the tools for accelerated development, be it a quick modification of a graph-oriented modeling implementation or the direct storage of object-oriented logic in the database.  In addition, the unique "Lazy Update" schema change offers dynamic version management – the data logic is automatically directed into a new schema as soon as it is changed. A labor-intensive adjustment from the old to new schema is not necessary. Lazy Updates are carried out online – a critical advantage for provisioning systems - especially with a self-provisioning functionality.

In addition, the Versant Object Database provides a backup utility for complete or incremental backups and for different replication scenarios for full support of hot-standby operations. Combined with dynamic schema change and automatic disk space optimization (Online Reorganization), these functionalities guarantee smooth 24/7 operations.

End-to-End Services, Self-Provisioning

• Fast integration of new services is the key to success
• Smooth updates in heterogeneous environments
  
• Running system cannot be limited in any way

Versant Object Database

• Transparent persistence accelerates development: Logic persisted in the database as is, no mapping required
• Dynamic schema evolution
• Various replication scenarios for full support of hot-standby operations