Morristown, NJ – April 25th, 2008 – Today the TM Forum formally announced its finalists for the up-coming Excellence Awards, taking place during TM Forum Management World, in Nice on 19^th May. There are seven categories for the awards this year reflecting all aspects of the industry from the service provider, supplier and system integration aspects of the industry.

“The deluge of submissions has been whittled down by an independent panel of judges, who still have a final adjudication task to consider before the event” said Martin Creaner President and CTO of the TM Forum, “as the category of “Best Catalyst Project Management World Nice” which will be judged the week before the Management World Event. The judges’ work will not be simple as there are nine outstanding catalysts this year, nearly a record number for Management World”.

The Winners are to be announced on the 19^th May, at the black tie Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner, sponsored by Telcordia, which has quickly established a reputation as the place to meet the “who’s who” of the industry that are attending the TM Forum Management World.

The Finalists for the 2008 TM Forum Excellence Awards are:

Best New Management Product:

Digital Fuel Technologies - ServiceFlow,

Intelliden - Intelliden PBCM,

NetCracker - NetCracker v7.0 Product Set,

Oracle - Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management,

Sunrise Telecom - TAMS 7-VoIP,

Telcordia - Telcordia Integrated Inventory,

Tribold - Tribold Product Portfolio Manager,

Velocent - Velocent Systems VSE 2000

Most Innovative Integrated Marketing Campaign:

Nakina Systems - The Nakina "You Need a Network OS" ,

Reliance - Reliance Power Initial Public Offer

Best Practices – Supplier:

Amdocs - Amdocs Billing StartPack Solution,

HP - Solution Consulting Services powered by COSMOS
IBM - eTOM Customization and Real World Application,

NetCracker - Policy Management,

Telcordia - Common Language Information Services,

Telcordia - Real-Time Charging & Hosted Solution

Best Practices – Service Provider:

Chungwa Telecom – NGOSS Practices

Telekom Austria – PSS 3 years of success

Telstra Corporation – OSS Transformation

Most Innovative Application of Customer Care:

AT&T - AT&T Business Direct Map,

AT&T - AT&T Business Direct Mobile Capabilities,

Orga Systems/TIM Celular – Virtual Voucher,

Telia/CellVision - Telia/CellVision SelfCare

Best Prosspero Implementation:

Vodafone/Ascom - VINE Vodafone International Information Exchange