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Collaboration Program

Benefits for Service Providers

Unique Advantages of TM Forum Collaboration for Service Providers

Interact with the Service Provider Community
  • Find like minded service providers to come together to push TM Forum standards and best practices forward with a larger, collective voice than just one service provider can have on their own
  • Meet with a group of your peers that you can not easily get together with another way
  • Work with peers within the TM Forum’s legal framework for collaboration, so you can meet without worrying about issues of unfair business practices
Protect your interests
  • Proactively drive industry standards that meet your needs, and that add flexibility while also reducing the costs and risks of major projects
  • Drive industry suppliers to adopt best practices and standards that protect your interests and ensure their product sets meets your needs
Gain expertise from across the industry
  • Acquire deep insight into technologies and business trends through close interaction with peers
  • Anticipate new developments in the industry through access to industry experts
  • Test out concepts that you have in your own company with a body of your peers or a group of suppliers
Accelerate development/integration
  • Leverage experience and expertise from across the industry through closer interaction with peers enabling more rapid implementation of standards-based, flexible solutions
  • Gain deeper understanding and experience of using standards-based solutions to reduce implementation risk
  • Rapidly prototype solutions using 4-6 month long Catalyst Demonstration Projects
Improve market perception
  • Ensure your company is recognized as a market leader and innovator
  • Ensure your company is recognized as using standards
  • Ensure your company is seen as open and easy to work with
Ensure the right procurement decisions
  • Build closer and more transparent working relationships with suppliers and systems integrators to ensure success
  • Use Catalyst Demonstration Projects to try out suppliers and to determine best procurement decisions more rapidly than through a standards RFx process