Release 3 of the TM Forum NGOSS program focuses on defining the elements of the NGOSS toolkit. This release delivers the first fully populated set of NGOSS tools, which make NGOSS usable as an end-to-end system for OSS/BSS development and integration.
With NGOSS 3, significant steps have been made in achieving the NGOSS vision. NGOSS Release 3 is the first release to deliver an interlinked, end-to-end solution from the business process analysis phase of a project, through the solution design and requirements and into solution architecture.
NGOSS 3 enables service providers to position themselves for a new paradigm in OSS, where changing service offerings happens in hours, not months, where complex processes requiring manual intervention can be automated with an affordable amount of investment, and where cost of OSS and operations are decreasing, even as network complexity is increasing.
NGOSS Release 3 consists of a self consistent set of documents. Point releases of NGOSS Release 3 will be made available when document versions are updated. Not all documents will be upgraded in any given point release, but a full set of documents covering all NGOSS areas will be included in each version of the Release 3 series. The history of the NGOSS Release 3 series is below.
| Release |
History |
| NGOSS 3.0 |
Initial Release |
| NGOSS 3.1 |
Update of TMF050 and TMF050a Compliance documents to Version 3.0 |
| NGOSS 3.5 |
New versions of eTOM, SID and Architecture documents. eTOM and SID are major updates; Architecture changes affect only the main document and one addendum. |
Summary of major new features of NGOSS Release 3.5 are listed in the table below:
| NGOSS Element |
Features |
| Business Process Analysis and Design (eTOM) |
New process decompositions. Key areas are Fulfillment, Assurance, Billing, CRM RM&O, S/PRM
Example process flows showing how to use eTOM
Improved usability reflecting user feedback.
Extensions to eTOM use in business-to-business environment
Definition of eTOM and ITIL points of contact
Enhanced linkages to SID |
| Shared Information and Data Model (SID) |
Additional NGOSS Information models: Project, Time (Calendar), QoS, Logical Resource and Policy.
Significant revisions to existing SID models
Definition of relationships between basic models, covering customer, product, service, resource
Web published SID UML models
Mapping of SID business entities and eTOM business processes |
| NGOSS Architecture |
Security
Refinement of Service, Contract, Contract Instance and Component definitions |
Detailed descriptions of the latest version of the NGOSS Release 3 features, and linkages between the NGOSS elements are provided in the NGOSS 3.1 Release Notes.