Catalog Management API provides a standardized solution for adding rapidly partners' products to an existing Catalog.
It brings the capability for Service Providers to directly feed partners systems with the technical description of the products they propose to them.
This reduces Catalog definition time and errors for offerings based on partners' products.
The Product Catalog API:
- Is used to communicate, expose, and mash-up product and service specifications into new product offerings in an efficient and easily understood manner
- Provides a straightforward and standardized mechanism for extracting data from catalogs, independently of platform, network or other implementation-specific technologies.
- Consists of a simple set of operations that interact with catalog management systems in a consistent way
- Provides a standardized way to do queries on Product Offering and Product Specifications