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Collaboration Program

Benefits for Suppliers

Advantages your Company Receives by Participating in TM Forum Collaboration Projects 



Understand your customers, find partners
  • Work alongside potential customers in a neutral environment to get a deeper understanding of their motivations, needs and objectives
  • Build relationships and partnerships with other suppliers in a friendly working environment
  • Gain deep insight that enables you to be well prepared to respond to RFx requests that require TM Forum conformance
Improve market perception and visibility
  • Be perceived as an open, collaborative, market leader
  • Excellent marketing and exposure opportunities, including Catalyst projects, Newsletter articles, Forumville participation
Safe-guard your product development investments
  • Exploit existing Research & Development investment by ensuring your solution becomes part of an industry standard
  • Ensure emerging standards accommodate your requirements
  • Through exposure to the latest trends in the industry and service provider expertise, build a product roadmap that meets your customer’s needs
Reduce product development time and cost
  • Leverage experience and expertise from across the industry through closer interaction with customers and peers enabling more rapid implementation of standards-based, flexible solutions
  • Gain deeper understanding and experience of using standards-based solutions to reduce development risks
  • Rapidly prototype solutions using Catalyst Demonstration projects
Interact with the TM Forum industry community 
  • Find like minded companies to come together to push TM Forum standards and best practices forward with a larger voice than just one company can have on their own
  • Meet with a group of your peers that you can’t 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 with unfair business practices
Gain market insight & forecasting
  • Anticipate emerging market developments
  • Understand industry trends in detail, gather ideas and harness them
  • Test out concepts that you have in your own company with a body of your peers or a group of suppliers
  • Fast-track emerging agreements on standards and best practices in to production before your competitors