In today's extremely competitive market, service providers are looking for strategies that enable them to transform their operations to support movement to a service delivery business paradigm, mechanisms for rolling out complex and intertwined services (IPVideo, VoIP, etc.), and achieving differentiation in terms of their customers' perception of quality. Service providers are adopting a renewed focus on customer experience as the best way to achieve these goals: to measure the success of the products (end user services) they are selling to their customers. Thus, Detailed Service Models have become the blueprints required to build Service-Oriented Operations.

Read this white paper to learn how:

• Service modeling is a key component of evolving to service-oriented operations
• The appropriate use of service modeling at various stages of the service and network development life cycle
• The multiple benefits of the service modeling process
• A best practice approach for modeling based on standards and real-world experience