Category: (1) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 7.15
Maturity Level: 4
Overview
Location Management provides the required functionality to
manage the physical and logical attributes of location data for the service provider. It
can include addresses (street, city, state/province, & country), geospatial
information (lat/long), as well as common code information (such as CLLI -
Common Language Location Identifier). This location inventory can include
both customer location data as well as service provider location data (anything
of interest to the service provider to support their operational
needs).
Functionality
The common capabilities of Location Management applications
include:
- Location
structure customization Location management application should provide
facilities for creating, modifying and deleting data structures according to
business rules of Service Providers or national and international location
regulations. Also utilities for
defining sets of location attributes, levels and hierarchies should be
available.
- Location
search the ability to search for a provided location/address, including the
ability to return near matches if an exact match is not found.
- Repository integrity ability to maintain data
integrity in the whole location repository. Its especially important if there
are many external data sources that deliver new addresses for the
repository.
- Location
replenishment means to update the repository with new/updated location
information from external
sources.
- Location
profiling application should generate different views for different business
cases (e.g. different format of address strings)
- Change history tracking all changes of location data, making
available attributes according their historical values in certain
periods.
Supported Business Services
