order management, provisioning and inventory players in market

OSS product vendors
•ADC (provisioning: wireline, cable)
•AI Metrics (order management, inventory and provisioning: wireline, next-gen, enterprise)
•Co-Manage (inventory, provisioning: data - ATM/FR/DSL/SONET/IP/IP-VPN) Cramer (provisioning, inventory, order management: mobile, voice, data)
•Eftia OSS Solutions (order management, provisioning, inventory: wireline, CLEC)
•Granite (provisioning and inventory: wireline, mobile, enterprise)
•Metasolv (order management, provisioning, inventory: wireline, wireless, data, isp)
•NetCracker (order management, provisioning, inventory: wireline, next-gen, data)
•Peregrine Systems (inventory management: wireline, next-gen)
•Sigma Systems (provisioning: cable)
•Telecordia: (order management, provisioning, inventory, dispatch: RBOC wireline)
•Visionael (inventory management: next-gen)

Others
•In-house developers
•ILEC/CLEC provisioning gateways (DSET, Nightfire, Quintessant, Wisor)
•Billing services vendors: Amdocs, Convergys, CSG, Infodirections
•Custom solutions (consultants/integrators)
•Legacy systems

OSS BSS Challenges

Challenging IT problems
Requirements are a constantly moving target
Legacy heritage
Cost tradeoffs difficult to quantify and predict
Difficult to get it right the first time
Multiple generations software and infrastructure
Theory (getting it right) doesn't align with pragmatics (good enough)