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, 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, 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, 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…]

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®, 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, 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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]