Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture Offer Management Component

​Purpose

• Aggregate (mash-up) all Catalog Composition items and external supplier catalogs into consumable Offers that users can order through the Offer Consumption functional component.
• Build and publish the various offerings into Offer Catalogs for various populations to consume, determine prices, and valid options that consumers can select.
• Enable Offers to be grouped into an Offer Catalog to expose them as a collection of consumable items for a given group of consumers.
• Fulfill each Offer through numerous underlying Catalog Compositions as determined by this functional component.
  

• Shall contain all of the Offers available to consumers and provide this information to the Offer Consumption functional component.
• Can group services from multiple providers (internal and external) into a single Offer (also known as a bundle of services).
• May create the Service Contract template and provide information to the Service Level functional component.