Inventory management is about managing network design, network capacity and growth. As next-generation services evolve, the task of inventory and network resource allocation becomes more critical and complex to manage. Next-generation services require automated, standardised collection of data used by multiple services and technologies. Data on legacy systems must be linked to data on new service-delivery platforms and consolidated into a single system for operators to deliver high-volume content services cost efficiently. This paper discusses the business and operational challenges operators face today in inventory and resource management and describes how they and leading OSS vendors are responding to those challenges. -Please note that market trend reports are too short to contain a table of contents-
