1. A system for unifying web services and telecom network management, comprising: a service oriented architecture manager arranged to generate, by a processor: (a) a service model of at least one web service and (b) an external model representation of the service model; and a network manager arranged to import the generated external model representation of the service model into a network management data model, wherein the network manager applies a rule set specifying at least one import rule to be applied to at least one entity of the generated external model representation.