The Catalyst program is the TM Forum’s innovative approach to rapidly launching and creating leading-edge solutions. Based on Service Providers most pressing requirements, teams of system integrators and suppliers collaborate on a solution that culminates in a series of live demonstrations.
These demonstrations utilize off-the-shelf products combined with existing standards and emerging technologies to create solutions which are demonstrated at Management World events. The results are used to accelerate development of TM Forum best practices and standards for use by the industry at large. Besides serving as a ‘proving ground,’ Catalysts also enable Service Providers to gain real-world insight in a compressed time period to help guide strategic investment decisions.
End-to-End Operation & Management of Defense Communications
Managing Future Satellite Communications
This multi-phased Catalyst project aims to showcase an end-to-end operation and service enabler of Network-Centric Operations (NCO) with future IP-based satellite communications management systems. This will be achieved by utilizing TM Forum’s standards and extending these standards where necessary to create an cross-operator boundary solution framework. Read more
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Harmony Phase 4 – End-to-End Service Quality Management
What Can Your Network Really Do for You?
Harmony4 leads to a massively more efficient Service Provider business that actively manages real customer experience. Practical, harmonized, Contract-based standards reduce integration cost and firmly integrated management enable every euro spent on resource to be traced to the customer experience it delivers; concept to revenue, customer to quality. Learn more
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IPsphere
Implementing the Business of IP
IPsphere fuses best practices, standards and guidelines for the automated deployment of IP-based information, communications and entertainment services. The IPsphere Framework is complementary to the work underway within TM Forum's Service Delivery Framework.
The IPsphere Catalyst features a demonstration of the IPsphere Framework, across an expanded federation of global provider partners.
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Margin Assurance and Verification
Margin Assurance is Your Profit Assurance!
The Margin Assurance Catalyst is based on a real-life business challenge provided by Swisscom.
cVidya and Connectiva Business Intelligence and Revenue Assurance solutions helps to simplify the international dialing rates for Swisscom customers, while retaining a desired profitability, preventing revenue leakage, and optimizing complex pricing schemes and rates.
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Transition to Greenfield 2: Visibility and Flexibility using PLM, Active Catalog and BPM
Visibility and Flexibility Using PLM, Active Catalog and BPM
Building on the Phase I work, Phase 2 adds critical adjacent areas around CRM, billing & mediation, and service assurance as part of the transition to Greenfield. This will broaden the scope of the catalyst from product definition and ordering to post-ordering service and customer management.
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The Service Model Catalyst
Achieving Consistent Service Component Definition
The Service Model Catalyst, sponsored by Qwest, will demonstrate that a consistent approach to the way that the components of a service (telecom, OSS, Web) are defined is the key to CSPs realizing the efficiency and agility benefits of a Service Assembly approach.
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Identity Management with Standard TMF 615
OSS Identity Management
The Catalyst presents the first commercial implementation of TMF615 “OSS Operator User Management” deployed in a multi-vendor OSS environment. For other systems currently not yet supporting the standard a trouble ticket is created via JSR91 “TIP Trouble Ticket Interface” to support the manual procedure for user provisioning. This approach allows an integration of such systems into the process chain.
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Next Generation Data Migration
A Key Enabler for Business Transformation
The drivers for service provider businesses transformation have never been more urgent, with market consolidation, cost and revenue pressures growing ever stronger. In the new global economic climate a more pragmatic approach to transformation is required that demands new methods and approach to migrating data. As Service Providers implement business transformation projects, one of the complex issues they face is how to migrate key customer data and other records into their new systems. The data must be verified, rationalized, cleansed, formatted and then moved. The Forumville Application Data Migration Catalyst addresses the industry challenges resulting from current migration practices and strategies to overcome those challenges. It demonstrates the principles and recommendations using a real-world case study.
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Optimization of Business Transformation Programs
A key factor in the success of any Business Transformation program is the ability to identify and discover dependencies between products, applications, networks and business processes and their relevant data sources. This demo will showcase ways to optimize transformation activities highlighting the following:
- Use of semantic technology to identify and discover dependencies between products, OSS/BSS applications, networks and business processes from any relevant data sources
- Assessing the impact of transformation activities on customers and services by means of this dependency analysis
- Assisting in optimal ordering of transformation activities to minimize the economic impact of change.
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