Introduction to TIBCO® Product and Service Catalog
TIBCO® Product and Service Catalog (formerly known as TIBCO® Fulfillment Catalog) enables you to easily manage and maintain complex Product Offerings. The Product Offerings, Services, and rules for Pricing, Provisioning, and Eligibility are actively maintained within the Data Repository.
A complete graphical user interface allows the users to create, edit, search, and maintain their data. User access, responsibilities, and lifecycle workflows can be configured for the ongoing management of this information. The complete data model for your product offerings and their components can be exported to the downstream order provisioning systems, such as TIBCO® Order Management (formerly known as TIBCO® Fulfillment Order Management).
This document details the out-of-the-box data model supplied with TIBCO Product and Service Catalog. Specifically, this document describes in detail:
Product Catalog Definition: TIBCO Product and Service Catalog provides a flexible mechanism for defining a complete product offering data model and maintaining the data objects in the repository. At run-time, TIBCO Order Management can provide fast access caching to send queries of the catalog to the querying application for the data. The definition of Product Offerings not only includes the component building blocks of a Sales Offer but also:
- Definition of Product or Services
- Underlying components
- Characteristics
- Features
- Definition of Prices and Price Sets
- Definition of Rules Governing Product Validity
- Optional Components
- Eligibility Rules
- Compatibility Rules
- Customer Type or other Segmentation Rules
- Definition of TIBCO Order Management rules
- Sequencing
- Provision Processes
- Dependencies