• Oracle today announced general availability of Oracle(r) Communications Service Creation Environment (SCE) 3.0 to help communications service providers (CSPs) bring new services to market faster. Through a unified graphical interface, users can define, configure, assemble and deploy new or existing services from the Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite - helping to foster rapid service deployment and innovation with less risk.
• This new version of SCE now spans several components of the Oracle Communications Service Fulfillment Suite, including Oracle Communications Order and Service Management, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management and Oracle Communications Service Activation. SCE combines data from the three applications for a simplified view that helps service providers introduce new services through design efficiencies, such as version control and team collaboration.
• SCE 3.0 enables rapid service deployment by providing an accurate view of services, such as broadband, IPTV, wireless or others, already existing in a service provider's inventory or market offering. The application, which includes new capabilities for controlling versions of service design and associated documentation, helps users configure, create, assemble and deploy new service offerings. By enabling providers to leverage their existing service components and modify them to fit new customer needs - as opposed to creating wholly new services - SCE helps speed time to market.
• SCE also allows service providers to prototype new services, deploy and operate pilot programs, and refine and adapt services before undertaking a full market launch. This ability helps reduce risk and service creation costs while enabling providers to innovate and evolve seamlessly from early service incubation through full maturity - a key requirement for many next-generation services that may not yet be operationally mature.
• SCE is part of Oracle's end-to-end suite for the communications industry, which also includes Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, Oracle's Siebel CRM, Oracle Service Fulfillment Suite, Oracle Service Delivery Platform and Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Communications.

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• "Oracle's vision is to deliver rapid service innovation to the communications industry through a comprehensive suite of integrated communications applications. Our new Service Creation Environment is a testament to our industry leadership as we continually seek to put configuration in the hands of service providers so they can cost effectively introduce new, innovative services, as well as blend combinations of existing services to create new market offerings rapidly," said David Sharpley, vice president of product marketing and channels, Oracle Communications.
• "Operators' traditional use of standalone 'silos' in their OSS, BSS and service delivery environments has hampered their ability to create and deliver truly innovative, convergent services," said Shira Levine, senior research analyst, IDC. "The development of an integrated, end-to-end solution that spans those multiple environments is an important step toward enabling rapid service innovation."

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