Learn more about Blue Planet Inventory (BPI).

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re preparing to launch a new cloud-based service offering, but it’s quickly becoming apparent that operationalizing this new service will create yet another silo of manual processes and new layers of management complexity.

You know you desperately need more automation to improve agility, reduce costs, and stay ahead of your competition. But with an operational model hindered by multiple fragmented operations support systems (OSS) that rely on being manually updated, you can’t count on having an accurate inventory of your network resources and services – much less automating your operational processes.

So, you’re stuck with swivel-chair operations, order fall-out, long service lead times, and manual troubleshooting. It’s hard to see the best path forward.

The foundation for automation: an accurate, unified inventory

The road to your successful automation strategy is built on a solid inventory foundation. As we’ve seen in recent announcements with Lumen and TDC NET, a growing number of leading service providers worldwide are modernizing their network inventory systems by creating a complete and current view of their network. We built our Blue Planet Inventory (BPI) software application to help customers achieve this and accelerate their digitization.

BPI provides a 'single source of truth' for your network by performing two key functions on a continual basis:

  • Auto-discovery: By interfacing directly with network management systems (NMS), domain controllers or devices, BPI automatically maintains a current view of network resources and logical services across multiple vendors and technology layers.
  • Federation: By integrating and synchronizing the real-time data discovered from the network with the operational data in legacy OSS and inventory systems, BPI creates a single federated data model that’s visualized using a state-of-the-art graph database.

The result is an accurate and comprehensive view of your network resources and the service topology spanning multiple network domains. And unlike legacy, monolithic inventory solutions, the unified network inventory visibility provided by BPI helps solve a specific problem – it allows you to eliminate silos and streamline operational processes across network and IT, as well as to federate legacy systems and retire them at your own pace.

"Denmark is spearheading digitization across Europe and TDC NET is creating and operating the communications infrastructure to support this pivotal role, embracing fiber networks and the best 5G mobile network in Denmark. As part of our digital transformation plan, we are working with Blue Planet to reduce inventory management system complexity and improve operational efficiencies to the benefit of our customers."

- Carsten Rasmussen, Head of IT Enablement, TDC NET

A clear path to automation

The business impact of a modern inventory foundation can be truly transformative to all aspects of network and service operations: improving order-to-service, trouble-to-resolve, and plan-to-build time intervals. In addition, it simplifies the adoption of advanced orchestration for automating end-to-end service delivery, as well as AI-powered service assurance, which are integrated with BPI in the Cloud Native Platform. And finally, a more unified view of the network also improves the ability to identify stranded assets, optimize network designs, and improve sustainability by reducing power consumption.

With Blue Planet Inventory, the path forward to a more automated and efficient operational model now lies clearly before you. An accurate, unified, dynamic inventory view can accelerate service fulfillment and troubleshooting processes, simplifying your operations and satisfying your customers’ heightened expectations for a better quality of experience and faster response times.

To learn more about Blue Planet Inventory, contact us or visit blueplanet.com.