Enabling Simplicity Across the Enterprise
A Changing Market
Today’s hyper-competitive market requires your business to operate with a new level of agility, simplicity, and efficiency. Core business operations must be optimized and automated to run at the lowest possible cost and with maximum flexibility, enabling you to focus on differentiation where it matters: delivering innovative services.
These market forces no longer allow the required time or budget to build and maintain highly customized systems, nor the typical software cost ratio of 5:1 of customization versus software license fees.
As a service provider, you need access to adaptive, standardized commercial-off-the-shelf software (COTS) solutions that can be implemented quickly, simply, and with confidence.
TM Forum is leading the charge in this industry transformation. Already adopted by 90% of the world’s largest service providers, our Frameworx suite of standards provide the blueprint for effective business operations, enabling you to assess and improve performance by using a proven, service-oriented approach to operations and integration, allowing you to focus on growing your business.
Frameworx: A Standard for Change
Standards are an essential part of any open and vibrant market. The successful growth of the communications industry was built on fundamental standards, and future success is now reliant upon standards, too.
Embedded in hundreds of COTS products and solutions, Frameworx is already widely recognized as the standard for business processes, information and applications, and rapid integration. As a service provider, enterprise-wide adoption of Frameworx enables you to:
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Optimize your operations
- Reduce customer churn and unlock new business opportunities
- Improve profits and business agility
- Speed deployment of new services delivered through a value-chain of partners
- Reduce both internal and external integration time and costs
Frameworx-conformant operations are trusted as they conform to industry standards proven to work in thousands of operating environments and markets around the world.
To be successful in the face of today’s market realities, service providers are adopting TM Forum’s Frameworx suite of standards and best practices to reduce risk, speed service deployment, and lower costs.
Frameworx Conformance Certification Assessments enable you to verify an implementation, product, or solution’s conformance to Frameworx Business Process and Information models and improve the overall efficiency of your organization’s procurement processes.
Conforming to Frameworx Across Your Enterprise
Frameworx delivers maximum value when adopted fully across the enterprise. TM Forum provides a comprehensive set of services and support tools to help assess, improve, and maintain your Frameworx conformance:
Frameworx Implementation Conformance
The Frameworx Implementation Conformance Assessment provides verification of a service provider's internal business processes and enterprise data model. This independent assessment enables you to validate and improve the efficiency of your organization, comparing adherence to the proven Frameworx Business Process and Information standards on a sliding scale.
Implementations that meet the rigorous certification standards are awarded the TM Forum Frameworx Implementation Conformance Mark.
Combined with TM Forum Benchmarking, Implementation Conformance Assessments provide a clear assessment of how your enterprise-wide operations compare to industry leaders, and where to direct transformation investment for maximum effect.
Frameworx Product and Solution Conformance
An agile service provider in today’s market requires adaptive software solutions which can be implemented quickly, cheaply, and at the lowest possible risk. Moreover, in an expanding value-chain of partners, you need to be able build innovative services with minimal integration effort. By demanding Frameworx-conformant products and solutions you can reduce implementation cost, time, and risk.
Product Conformance Assessments provide an independent verification of supplier's product conformance to Frameworx. Each assessment verifies adherence to the Frameworx Business Process and Information models, providing an easy way to assess a product's conformance. Since service providers can procure discrete products and/or pre-integrated off-the-shelf solutions, the TM Forum also offers Solution Conformance Assessments that assess a solution suite's conformance to Frameworx.
Procurement (RFx) Training and Support
To help simplify the process of procuring Frameworx-compliant products and solutions, TM Forum provides RFx templates and training for your procurement staff, helping you request and check Frameworx conformance quickly and simply.
In addition, TM Forum offers a broad range of support and expert advice for service providers striving for Frameworx conformance.
Business Benefits for Service Providers
- Provides an independent benchmark of product or implementation conformance
- Substantially reduces the cost of RFx process costs by providing a standard, industry-agreed assessment of conformance to the Frameworx Business Process and Information models
- Reduces the risks associated with complex integration projects by providing the detailed information required to develop an integration roadmap
- Simplifies the complexity of integrating products acquired through M&A activity – from both a technical and product portfolio perspective
Business Benefits for Suppliers
- Substantially reduces the cost of responding to RFx requests by providing a standard, industry-agreed assessment of conformance to the Frameworx Business Process and Information models
- Reduces sales time and makes it easier to understand customer requirements by providing a clear mapping of product features to service provider business needs, as defined by the Frameworx Business Process model
- Demonstrates real commitment to enabling an open and vibrant market of conformant, service management solutions for the industry, and acts as a differentiator
- Simplifies the complexity of integrating products acquired through M&A activity – from both a technical and product portfolio perspective
- Reduces the risks associated with complex integration projects by providing the detailed information required to develop an integration roadmap
Companies with Certified Products, Solutions, and Implementations
   
  
  
   
 
Report Misuse: Frameworx conformance
is an important part of enabling the communications industry to maintain
profitability as it migrates to new services and new business models.
Gaining the conformance mark represents a significant investment by both
suppliers and service providers. If you feel a company is misusing the
conformance mark then please let us know at conformance@tmforum.org. |