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Frameworx DistilledFrameworx Distilled
Authors: John P. Reilly, Martin J. Creaner

The adoption of TM Forum’s Frameworx – the Business Process Framework, the Information Framework, the Applications Framework, and the Integration Framework – continues to grow within the information, communications, and entertainment industry. This book provides an updated version of the frameworks that was first presented in NGOSS Distilled, published in 2005.

This book provides an overview of the frameworks, the frameworks’ support of service orientation, advice on implementing and using the frameworks, an introduction to framework compliance and harmonization approaches with other industry groups, and how the frameworks support business transformation.
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OSS Design PatternsOSS Design Patterns
Authors: Colin Ashford, Pierre Gauthier

This book advocates a pattern-based approach to the design of interfaces to Operations Support Systems (OSSs) to reduce the cost of delivering telecommunications management solutions. OSSs are the large servers that host the OSS applications that manage telecommunications services. Developing solutions to manage telecommunications services entails integrating the functionality of a number of OSS applications through their integration interfaces. Owing to the complexity, size, and distributed nature of telecommunications networks and services, application designers have necessarily turned to the latest software technologies to implement OSS applications...
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Business Transformation with TM Forum Solution Frameworks and SOA Business Transformation with TM Forum Solution Frameworks and SOA
Authors: Serge Garcia, Iwan Gramatikoff and John Wilmes

Today's enterprises are increasingly faced with the need for business transformation: implementing a next-generation business model by improving business process effectiveness to attain strategic goals. But achieving next-generation status requires that enterprises do more than introduce a new IT and process architecture. As one of a series of books that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum solution frameworks (NGOSS), this is a practical tool that will guide enterprises to recognize and build their path to the next generation model.
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The eTOM: A Business Process Framework Implementor's Guide

The eTOM - A Business Process Framework Implementor's Guide
The adoption of the TM Forum’s Business Process Framework, also known as eTOM, continues to increase within the information, communications, and entertainment industry. As a result, a need has arisen to provide guidance the practical use of the framework and how the framework can be extended and/or modified for use.

The guide provides a review of the Business Process Framework, a typical implementation approach, a set of guidelines for extending the framework and a series of case studies for demonstrating uses of the framework.
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Application Integration Using the SID  Application Integration Using the SID is the third in a series of books that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum’s NGOSS program. A key component of NGOSS is the TM Forum Information Framework, commonly known as the SID, the Shared Information/Data Model.

Written by TM Forum’s Senior Technical Program Manager, John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software, this book provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability.
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 Getting Started Getting Started with the SID: A Data Modeler’s Guide is the TM Forum’s latest volume on New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS).  Building on NGOSS Distilled by Martin Creaner and John Reilly, Getting Started With the SID provides readers with a clear overview of this standard industry data model and includes recommendations on its use in OSS/BSS transformation.

Written by the TM Forum’s co-chair of the Shared Information and Data Model project and TM Forum staff member, John Reilly provides answers to many questions about this cornerstone framework.
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