TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has confirmed details of its tenth annual Management World Americas conference. The premier communications conference for the Americas will be held at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida from December 8 to 10, 2009. This year’s event focuses on making profitable, innovative new business models a reality, and on operational excellence as an enabler for long-term success. [Read more…]
TM Forum Enables Service Provider Confidence with Certified Compliance Program
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, announced the launch of a Certified Compliance Testing program. The new program offers reassurance to communications service providers seeking to future-proof their IT architecture through use of TM Forum’s proven and flexible set of Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). [Read more…]
TM Forum Survey Indicates Reason for Lower Revenue Assurance Maturity
cVidya Networks, a leading provider of Revenue Assurance and Dealer Management solutions, announced today the findings of a recently released Revenue Assurance Maturity Survey conducted by the TM Forum. [Read more…]
TM Forum Study Shows Mobile Operators Lead Way in Revenue Assurance
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has recently announced availability of its latest Business Benchmarking performance study report. One of the Revenue Assurance Maturity Model Survey’s major findings is that Mobile operators are the most mature in their approaches to revenue assurance. In addition, the report finds that Service Providers around the world are rapidly adopting the TM Forum Revenue Assurance Maturity Model and its principles. [Read more…]
TM Forum‘s second Regional Spotlight for Latin America to be held in Buenos Aires
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has confirmed that the second in a series of TM Forum Regional Spotlights – focusing on business issues in Latin America and solution case studies – will be held at the Marriott Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires on Monday June 22, 2009. The Spotlight will be jointly hosted with Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), a leading provider of customer experience systems. [Read more…]
New Report Maps Strategic Transformation for the Digital Economy
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has recently announced a new report and Webinar called “Strategic Transformation For the Digital Economy: Tuning Your Business To the 21st Century.” The June 16th Webinar will launch the new report— the first in a series of TM Forum Insights reports. [Read more…]
TM Forum publishes new Business Transformation Book
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has recently announced the publication of a new book, Business Transformation with TM Forum Solution Frameworks and SOA. The new book is the latest in a series that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum’s Solutions Frameworks as part of cost-base transformation for communications service providers. [Read more…]
TM Forum Takes Pole Position to Help Industry Tackle Recession
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, today announced results for the financial year ending March 31, 2009. For the fifth consecutive year, the international not-for-profit organization has achieved revenue and membership growth of more than 25%. The results show an organization well placed to weather the current global recession, and reinforce the Forum’s leading position in helping its global membership tackle the effects of the economic crisis. [Read more…]
Forumville Highlights Business Transformation at TM Forum’s Management World 2009
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, revealed recently the ground-breaking business transformation solutions that will be demonstrated in the exclusive Forumville innovation zone at the Forum’s flagship Management World conference (4-8 May 2009, Nice, France). [Read more…]
ConceptWave nominated Excellence Awards 2009 Finalist by TM Forum
ConceptWave®, a leading provider of catalog and order management automation solutions, has been named a TM Forum 2009 Excellence Award finalist in the category of “Best Practices – Supplier/System Integrator.” [Read more…]
TM Forum brings together Communications, Media, Advertising and Web Leaders for T8 World Summit
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, announced today that a high-powered group of executives are confirmed to meet at the T8 World Summit, part of the Forum’s Management World conference (Nice, France, May 4-8th). The invitation-only summit will bring together C-level executives from major players in the communications, media, advertising, banking and web sectors to discuss how to generate new sources of revenue through innovative business models. [Read more…]
Finalists Announced for TM Forum Excellence Awards 2009
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has announced 12 finalists for its 2009 Excellence Awards program. The awards recognize leadership and innovation across the communications industry, and attract entries from leading service providers and suppliers around the world. Winners of this year’s awards will be announced during the Keynote Perspectives session at TM Forum’s Management World conference in Nice, France on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. [Read more…]
Clarity Selected as Finalist for TM Forum Excellence Award
Clarity, the market leader in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious TM Forum (TMF) Excellence Awards in its ‘Best Practices – Supplier or System Integrator’ category. [Read more…]
Defence leaders meet at TM Forum’s Management World 2009 to launch first Technology Catalyst project
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has confirmed details of a new defence-related Technology Catalyst project. Key players from the global defence industry – including Booz Allen Hamilton, QinetiQ Ltd, NATO C3 Agency, DAX Technologies, Thales Communications, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and Progress Software – will converge at Management World 2009 to demonstrate the results of this collaborative project, which focuses on improving the operational agility and real-time management of complex space networks. [Read more…]
TM Forum, MEF Partner Respond to Large Losses in Mobile Content Value Chain
Today, TM Forum and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) launched a joint initiative to address the estimated $5 billion in annual losses experienced by content suppliers across the [Read more…]
TM Forum’s Content Encounter 3 Gives Providers a Real-world Exploration of Content-based Services
Five multi-company live demonstrations offer an in-depth, hands-on focus on lubricating the value chain for personalized services and advertising-based business models at Management World Orlando
Today, TM Forum announced the next important milestone in its highly acclaimed Content Encounter initiative. Championed by AT&T, Swisscom and Verizon and supported by NAB Show as an industry partner, Content Encounter 3 provides collaboratively developed solutions to the challenges of creating, delivering and monetizing digital media services in an increasingly complex value chain, based on specific real-world operational issues. [Read more…]
Revenue Assurance Benchmark Study Indicates Entire Revenue Leakage Three Times Operator Recovered Amount
14 communications service providers from around the world considered by study
cVidya Networks announced the findings of the first Revenue Assurance Benchmark Study report carried out in collaboration between the TM Forum and cVidya Networks and based on the TM Forum’s 10 standard KPI methodology. The study included 14 communications service providers from 5 continents, most with a relatively high RA maturity level. [Read more…]
TM Forum Revenue Assurance Study Revealed High Losses and High Hopes
Data from 14 Service Providers reveal that revenue losses and customer experience issues can be resolved with preventive measures
Convergence and lack of visibility across an ever-expanding value chain are causing growing revenue losses for service providers, as evidenced in a one-of-a-kind benchmark study [Read more…]