BT Research and Venturing

• The complexity of supply chains has increased, they involve many players of differing size and function

• Support for “Operational Support Systems (OSS)” integration using semantic descriptions of system interfaces and messages

• Internet Service Providers integrate their OSS-s with those of BT (via a gateway)

• Integration of heterogeneous OSS systems of partners

• The approach reduces costs and time-to-market; ontologies allow for a reuse of services