Extensibility - Adding a new Product Component
The Telco Product Catalog is designed to be flexible to support future sellable products and offerings. Logically the Product Catalog is divided into Product, Composite Products, and Components.
Components are further classified by Class Type. Common Component Classes include Device, Tariffs, and Services. Entirely new classifications may be created and added to support future device or service classifications. In the following example, a new generic "Component" classification has been added to the list of Component Types:
Components and Product Hierarchies
Any new component represents a logical classification, and components may be built up from other components (for example, a Device component might be composed of other Device components). It is important to note, therefore, that the list of component classifications does not represent the number of levels allowed when creating a product offering, it merely represents common classifications of a component. To state things more succinctly, the complexity of the products you model is not limited by the TIBCO MDM Telco data model, for example, you can have a Product Offering consisting of any number of components, that in turn may be built up by other components, recursing down to however many levels of componentization you desire.
New components can then immediately be created and maintained within the Catalog, classified by the new classification (in this example the new component class is a generic "Component"):
