TIBCO Product and Service Catalog Strategy
You can use TIBCO best practices to determine how best to utilize TIBCO Product and Service Catalog in your business environment. This requires a strategy for handling your configuration requirements and decisions when running the TIBCO Product and Service Catalog in either a live production system or in a deployment environment.
You can configure TIBCO Order Management - Long Running so that the product model dynamically publishes through messaging from TIBCO Order Management - Long Running (or potentially another product catalog system). You can also configure TIBCO Order Management - Long Running to read the product catalog from off-line files.
You can make changes to the TIBCO Product and Service Catalog in a live production system; however, you must be aware of the implications. The following implications show the potential danger of a life TIBCO Product and Service Catalog instance dynamically publishing the product model to TIBCO Order Management - Long Running:
- If the catalog is changed incorrectly, the production system is immediately impacted.
- TIBCO Order Management - Long Running requires a live instance of TIBCO Product and Service Catalog.
- New products generally mean new process components and most likely a software release would be required anyway.
it is a good practice to use a live TIBCO Product and Service Catalog instance only in the development environment. All other environments, including test, pre-production, and production can use the off-line files, which are easily version controlled and tagged in conjunction with the developed code.
In summary, carefully plan how to use the TIBCO Product and Service Catalog in your organization in conjunction with your business requirements.