ProductOffering ABE and other Top-Level SID Entities for the Telco Product Catalog Model
From a SID perspective, the TIBCO Fulfillment Catalog Product Catalog model uses the following top-level SID Business Entities.
At the top-level, Product Offerings make up a Base Product Catalog, which are then related to other ABE's as displayed:
A Product Offering is the Atomic Business Entity (ABE) that describes an offer able product to a customer, be it a simple product or a composite of multiple products. For both SID and Fulfillment Catalog's Telco Data Model, the Product Offering Entity is the main object for the Product Domain.
SID also allows Product Offering Entities to be related to other Business Domain entities to express conditions on which an Offering is available. For instance, an Offering may only be valid for on-line sales (Sales Channel ABE), or may be offered to business but not consumers (Market Segment ABE). This can be modeled from either the Product Offering Entity (making the relationship always true) or for Subset ProductCatalogOfferings (making the relationship true only in the context of the specific catalog).
ProductOfferings may be offered to customers all together, or they may be filtered into any number of subset catalogs exposed to customers. Subset Product Catalogs in SID are called ProductCatalogs and represent specific offerings available to customers, based on a variety of factors. They can represent an On-Line catalog or a Small/Medium Enterprise catalog, or any other delineation.