Sponsorship Details Application Services Framework Tutorial 2. As new services have begun to proliferate, additional demands to integrate the existing IT back office with distributed resources internal and external to the service provider arise.
Competition demands that service providers add new services quickly and on a smaller initial scale.
Furthermore, these providers must continue to support such services over time to maintain scalable, available services. Given these technical and economic pressures, existing service models simply do not address the needs of service providers. These providers seek a more systemic approach that is survivable as an investment and is also adaptable for the creation of next-generation services as the market requires them. Challenging and Complex Services development has always posed a special case for telecommunications companies, because requirements demanded massive levels of scalability, reliability, and real-time interaction with network elements. Figure 1 depicts a generic example of a networked service surrounded by application services that form the in-place resources the service model must coordinate.