Integration Layer

Increase Your Agility

Cerillion's Integration Layer provides a comprehensive suite of options to accelerate integration and open up BSS/OSS capabilities to ecosystem partners.

To take advantage of new technologies such as 5G and IoT, Communications Services Providers (CSPs) need to be able to launch new services quickly and fully automate their operations. However, most CSPs are still plagued by siloed systems and poorly integrated solutions, hampering their ability to respond to market changes or onboard new service partners. In order to compete with more agile Digital Services Providers (DSPs), CSPs must open up their BSS/OSS systems using industry standard APIs to improve interoperability and scale up their partner ecosystems.

Cerillion's Integration Layer opens up exactly the same APIs that are used natively within the Cerillion suite to external systems and applications. Built using the REST standard, Cerillion has achieved Gold-level certification with the TM Forum for its Open APIs, underlining its commitment to delivering open and standards-based products in accordance with the TM Forum’s Open API & Open Digital Architecture Manifesto. The Integration Layer also includes a dedicated Wholesale Gateway, allowing service providers (ServCos) to easily connect into a wholesale operator (NetCo) that is using Cerillion, as well as a wide range of connectors to widely used 3rd party systems.

Key Benefits

Open new ecosystems

Create new revenue streams by opening up BSS/OSS capabilities to ecosystem partners.

Faster implementation

Deliver faster with proven, standards-based integration.

Secure integration

Comprehensive API management policies for secure and robust integration.

Key Features

TM Forum Open APIs

Cerillion is fully committed to the TM Forum’s Open API & Open Digital Architecture Manifesto and has achieved Platinum status in the Open API Conformance Certification program.

TM Forum’s suite of 60+ REST-based Open APIs has been collaboratively developed to be used in a range of scenarios, internally enabling service providers to transform their IT and operational agility and customer centricity, while externally delivering a practical approach to seamless end-to-end management of complex digital services.

By adopting this standards-based approach, Cerillion is making it easier to integrate its modules as part of an enterprise architecture strategy.

View Certified TM Forum Open APIs.

Wholesale Gateway

Wholesale Gateway is designed to operate alongside the core BSS/OSS product suite, leveraging Cerillion’s rich set of TM Forum Open APIs, to provide a purpose-built interface for service providers (ServCos) to easily connect into a wholesale operator (NetCo) that is using Cerillion.

Wholesale Gateway provides a dedicated and secure authorisation layer and comprehensive API management policies, allowing ServCo business support systems to create new sales orders and services in CRM Plus, which will then be billed (wholesale) through Revenue Manager.

Notification System

The Cerillion Notification System is designed around the TM Forum Open APIs and works as a central service to communicate updates to external systems. It works on a publish and subscribe basis, allowing other systems to register to receive updates from specific APIs such as Inventory or Trouble Tickets, streamlining integration with other cloud-native and on-premise applications.

Other REST APIs

In addition to the TM Forum Open APIs, Cerillion provides a further set of REST APIs covering a wide range of functions and utilities including Authorisation, Communities, General Ledger, Loyalty Management, Bulk Loader and Logging.

Other Interfaces

As well as a rich set of APIs, Cerillion has been integrated with a wide range of external applications and has connectors for many 3rd party systems including:

Enterprise Service Bus
General ledger
Banking
Payment gateways
SIM card suppliers
Stock management
Credit check
Address lookup
Trouble ticketing
Chatbots
Surveys
E-Signature
Document management

Certified TM Forum Open APIs

Cerillion currently supports 28 TM Forum Open APIs, of which 18 are fully certified by TM Forum, with 10 "Real World" certifications - Open APIs which have been certified in live customer deployments:

TM Forum Open API	Product Certified	Real World Certified	Real World Certifications
TMF620 - Product Catalogue Management
TMF621 - Trouble Ticket			Telesur
TMF622 - Product Ordering Management
TMF629 - Customer Management
TMF632 - Party Management
TMF634 - Resource Catalog Management
TMF637 - Product Inventory Management			Manx Telecom, Telesur
TMF638 - Service Inventory Management
TMF639 - Resource Inventory Management
TMF641 - Service Ordering Management
TMF645 - Service Qualification Management
TMF646 - Appointment Management
TMF663 - Shopping Cart			Manx Telecom, Neos Networks, Telesur
TMF666 - Account Management
TMF667 - Document Management
TMF668 - Agreement Management
TMF669 - Party Role Management
TMF670 - Payment Method
TMF671 - Promotion			Manx Telecom
TMF673 - Geographic Address Management
TMF674 - Geographic Site Management
TMF676 - Payment Management
TMF678 - Customer Bill Management
TMF683 - Party Interaction Management			Manx Telecom, Telesur
TMF699 - Sales Management			Neos Networks
TMF701 - Process Flow Management
TMF760 - Product Configuration Management

Don't just take our word for it

Congratulations to Cerillion on achieving Platinum Open API Conformance Certification. This milestone demonstrates their commitment to open standards that are crucial for unlocking innovative applications and digital services.

Andy Tiller

EVP, Member Products & Services, TM Forum

Read the press release