The Service Creation Environment (SCE) is a standalone
product from Aricent that delivers "True
Customer Value".
SCE provides an enabling solution for developing customer
driven convergent services for PSTN, Wireline (IP) and Wireless
Networks. It meets the requirements for end-to-end Service
Creation and Integration for both Proprietary as well as Standards
based Core Networks and Application platforms. SCE delivers
customer value on a sustained basis by enabling:
- Rapid development and maintenance of revenue generating
applications and services
- Reduction in Initial and operating costs for Service Creation
and Maintenance
- Faster time to market for delivery of New applications
and services
- Quicker turn around for customer specific application
customization needs
Aricent SCE enables creation and delivery of applications and
services at substantially reduced initial and operating costs.
This allows targeting of applications to niche vertical market
thereby meeting the need of defying the notion of "Killer
Applications" (synonymous with Mass Market Applications).
Creation of applications for niche markets becomes possible
on account of substantially reduced costs, greater
re-use of services, Open Standards and third party application
development. (The concept of "Killer applications"
emerged on account of very high costs to Operators for very
few services, the applications thus had to have a Mass-Market
appeal to recover costs and earn profits).
With the Aricent Service Creation Environment OEMs, Application
Platform Vendors, Application Developers can achieve over
50 percent savings while creating revenue-generating services.
The Statistics based on actual experience of creating features
using Aricent SCE is testimony to the value it has delivered to
our OEM customers.
The Aricent Service Creation Environment entails absolute savings
in developmental efforts, maintenance and customization efforts
as well as soft savings, which are guided by the opportunity
cost. The benefit of the Service Creation Environment increases
with the increase in the number of Features / Applications.
For example with 50 features the development effort in terms
of person-days is reduced from 240 to 132 with cost savings
of around $ 1.5 million USD.
Savings for feature(s)/ Application(s) Development and
Maintenance
Absolute Savings
- Development effort (Over 40%)
- Maintenance effort (Over 50%)
- Customization effort (Over 50%)
- Feature variations for international/ Local markets
- Country variant
Soft Savings
- Opportunity value for time-to-market (Elapsed time
savings of over 50%)
- Improved turn-around for customer specific needs (Qualitative)
Last updated : February 2, 2004
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