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- The Catalog is the repository for assets at the Resource, Service and Product levels. Assets are added to the Catalog using the Design Studio.
- The Design Studio is used to create, modify, and add Resource, Service, and Product definitions in the Catalog.
- The Certification Studio, available in 2017, is used to test new assets at all levels. It will be used for sandbox experimentation, and will include support for automated testing.
- The Distribution Studio is used to deploy certified assets. From the Distribution studio, new Product assets, including their underlying Resources and Services, are deployed into lab environments for testing purposes, and into production after certification is complete. In a future release, there will be a way to export Product assets information to external Business Support Systems for customer ordering and billing.
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