Integrated management solution architecture

This paper discusses an integrated management architecture for building end-to-end management applications. While many efforts have been made by the industry to define the management architecture, the great challenge to the telecommunication software development industry is still to find a technology management strategy to cope with existing and emerging new network and management technologies. Although many of these new technologies enable us to build more functional solutions to our business problems, if the process to manage their evolution and the strategy to integrate them are not defined properly, they can be very disruptive to our application solutions development. This paper demonstrates the software engineering process using integrated management as an example. We discuss some of the principles and experiences of integrated management. We examine the purposes and types of technology integration, the technology management and the application integration. Finally, we discuss a software solution using the integrated architecture, which does not only support management technology integration, but also application integration