Challenge
The ambition of Orange Business was to merge various sets of LAN and WLAN inventory data into a single, unified view, and to implement an automated data management approach. The goal was to achieve a complete and reliable network device inventory, enabling efficient planning and tracking, as well as activating monitoring, reporting, and auditing capabilities.
The foremost and biggest challenge was the complexity of the business logic embedded in the original procedures and views. There was no consolidated perspective on data gathered from numerous sources. The overall process required many manual steps for performing services, maintenance, and reporting operations.
Main benefits
Automation & Data Quality improvement resulting in efficient planning & cost management
Digital support for field intervention
Cloud Data platform with automated device inventory compiled from original systems
Always accurate reporting for PMs, transition team, organic growth team or field engineers
Solution
The solution, developed on AWS public cloud services, showcased exceptional flexibility and automation in integrating diverse data sources for network device inventory. Its cloud-based architecture allowed for easy configuration and adaptation to various data environments, ensuring seamless data integration. The automation of the data collection process, a key feature of the solution, significantly reduced the need for manual intervention, thereby enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the inventory data.
Implemented with an agile and DevOps-centric methodology, the solution focused on rapid deployment while maintaining high quality. The team’s expertise in agile practices and DevOps culture was crucial in ensuring a collaborative and efficient software development process, aligning rapid deployment with high-quality standards.. The use of AWS public cloud services was pivotal, providing fast provisioning of resources and incorporating CI/CD tools essential for incremental software development.
Technologies
- S3 Buckets
- SFTP
- Step Functions
- ECS
- ECR
- SNS
- Code Commit
- CodePipeline
- CloudWatch
- QuickSight
Result
- Trustworthy source of information
- Improved data quality
- Contineous integration/Contineous Delivery
- Reporting/audit capabilities on a unified data source
- BI Tools research for data visualization
- Leverge self-service approach towards the process