Service design and order fulfillment system with technical order calculation provider function

A computer-implemented method for generating a technical order, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• calculating a configuration delta comprising a change in a configuration of one or more resource-facing services or one or more resources;
• generating one or more technical actions that effectuate the configuration delta, wherein each technical action comprises metadata that defines a pattern of a structured request to perform work on a resource-facing service based on a resource-facing service specification or a resource based on a resource specification, wherein the pattern comprises an action identifier and a parameter set comprising one or more parameters for the technical action, the parameters being determined based on the configuration delta, and wherein each parameter comprises one or more mappings that populates the parameter from the configuration delta;
• generating one or more technical order lines, wherein each technical order line comprises a technical action and a resource-facing service that is based on a resource-facing service specification or a resource that is based on a resource specification;
• and
• defining a structured set of metadata comprising one or more resource-facing service specifications, one or more resource specifications, one or more relationships, one or more mappings, one or more technical actions, one or more parameter sets, one or more parameter mappings, one or more technical action recognition patterns, one or more technical order definitions, and one or more parameter set structures;
• wherein the generating the one or more technical actions and the generating the one or more technical order lines are both based on the metadata that identifies and decouples technical actions for execution on a network during reconfiguration.

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device comprising instructions that when executed by the processor generate the following modules:
• a configuration delta module configured to calculate a configuration delta comprising a change in a configuration of one or more resource-facing services or one or more resources;
• a technical action module configured to generate one or more technical actions that effectuate the configuration delta, wherein each technical action comprises metadata that defines a pattern of a structured request to perform work on a resource-facing service based on a resource-facing service specification or a resource based on a resource specification, wherein the pattern comprises an action identifier and a parameter set comprising one or more parameters for the technical action, the parameters being determined based on the configuration delta, and wherein each parameter comprises one or more mappings that populates the parameter from the configuration delta;
• a technical order line module configured to generate one or more technical order lines, wherein each technical order line comprises a technical action and a resource-facing service that is based on a resource-facing service specification or a resource that is based on a resource specification;
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• a metadata definition module configured to define a structured set of metadata comprising one or more resource-facing service specifications, one or more resource specifications, one or more relationships, one or more mappings, one or more technical actions, one or more parameter sets, one or more parameter mappings, one or more technical action recognition patterns, one or more technical order definitions, and one or more parameter set structures;
• wherein the technical action module is further configured to generate the one or more technical actions based on the metadata;
• wherein the technical order line module is further configured to generate the one or more technical order lines based on the metadata that identifies and decouples technical actions for execution on a network during reconfiguration.