TM Forum standards have been successfully adopted by many of the world’s service providers and their suppliers. However the world of the Information, Communications, Entertainment industry is changing at an incredible pace and the TM Forum has been addressing several key industry trends: 

• The continued downward pressure on service pricing driving ever greater business efficiency and new service innovation 

• The emergence of complex service delivery value chains 

• Customer power and the need to continually deliver more for less 

• Radical technology changes allowing the delivery of multiple services across one common IP infrastructure but with significantly greater software components

• The emergence of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

TM Forum’s Frameworx Integrated Business Architecture addresses these challenges and provides a master plan for the implementation of a Service Oriented Enterprise. Designed using service-oriented principles and supporting major software standards such as ITIL and TOGAF, Frameworx provides a comprehensive target architecture for service provider IT.

This Frameworx release builds on the previous well know NGOSS (Solution Frameworks) releases with two major documents: the Frameworx Statement of Direction (TR155) and the Frameworx Implementation Methodology (GB945-M).

To ensure that the Forum's core frameworks keep pace with these changes, the TM Forum Board has established a project called ‘Blueprint’ which t included interviews with numerous companies among the TM Forum members and outside of the membership community about the current and future state of the industry. As a result, the "Frameworx Statement of Direction" is the masterplan advice for an evolution strategy for the TM Forum Frameworx. This is a key document as it not only it covers the Forum's response to key industry trends alignment with other standards and frameworks such as ITIL, but it explains also the TM Forum’s Frameworx’s roles within a Service Oriented Enterprise (a modular organization, where process, information, systems [element of functionality] with which the enterprise operates and the evolution of the existing (Systems) Integration Framework.  This document was originally released in Guidebook format, as GB945-Primer; however, it was subsequently decided that the document was better suited to a Technical Report and was replaced with TR155. 



The “Frameworx Implementation Methodology (GB945-M) is the companion to the Frameworx Statement of Direction (TR155). The Frameworx Implementation Methodology presents the TM Forum approach to implementing and the master plan to and guides us in progressively moving towards service-orientation over a series of evolutionary phases. The phases basic structures support service orientation, from the Business Process Framework’s set of highly cohesive, loosely coupled process elements to their companion groups of entities/objects modeled by the Information Framework (SID), to the implementation of the processes (Business Process Framework – eTOM) by reusable Business Services (also known as NGOSS Contracts) to the cataloging of services by the Application Framework (TAM).
 

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