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10.2 Functionalities for cloud product management
This clause identifies cloud product management functionalities including product fulfilment, product
assurance and product repository functionalities. The detailed functionalities for cloud product management
are presented in Figure 10-3.
Figure 10-3 – Functionalities related to cloud product management
10.2.1 Product fulfilment functionalities
This covers a set of functionalities for the fulfilment management of cloud products. These functionalities
include product order management.
10.2.1.1 Product order management
Product order management is responsible for the E2E lifecycle management of a product orders.
Product order management functionalities include the following:
1) product order establishment. This functionality is responsible for the acquisition of a product order
request;
2) product order distribution. This functionality decomposes the product order into service order
requests and then distributes each service order request to appropriate service order management
functionalities;
3) product order publication. This functionality issues valid and complete product orders, and stores
the order into an appropriate inventory;
4) product order tracking and management. This provides the functionality necessary to track and
manage the distributed requests decomposed by product order distribution;
5) product order orchestration. This functionality provides workflow and orchestration capability
across product order management.
10.2.2 Product assurance functionalities
This covers a set of functionalities for the assurance management of cloud products.
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