Forumville is all about how you can deliver more, for less. It's where the TM Forum's Best Practices, Standards, Frameworx and Collaborative Programs come to life with demonstrations, presentations, TM Forum experts, networking and more. What's more, it's also the home to the unique Catalysts where service providers and other end users act as project "champions"; guiding collaborative vendor teams to bring innovative, not-seen-anywhere-else ideas and solutions to life.
Forumville incorporates five zones; each tackling a key industry challenge and echoing issues covered in the conference; you can take what you learn in the conference and what you experience in Forumville back to the office and start applying the solutions immediately. -
Cloud
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Revenue Management
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Implementing Frameworx
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Market Zone: Cable, Defense, SmartGrid, Machine2Machine
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Managing Services
Forumville features continual live demonstrations of 20 Catalyst projects with participants from over 75 leading service providers and vendors including BT, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, O2, NATO C3, Vodafone, Cox, ING Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Vodafone, Orascom, PT SAPO, Oi, and Deutsche Telekom. Check out 60 presentations across two theaters.
You can't afford to miss it.
Using Standardization to Realize the Promise of Cloud Services
With “Cloud” as the industry’s hottest topic, this zone focus on bringing together buyers and sellers of cloud services, demonstrates key concepts for managing across multiple clouds, and provides education on how cloud services and cloud management using TM Forum best practices and standards improves business across the value chain.
Catalysts Demonstrations:
Walking through Forumville is like drinking from the firehose of industry thought leadership and innovation." Ian Emsley, Subex Monetizing Services in a Complex and Changing Market
With frequent new services, converged offerings, mobile broadband and other rapid changes in the industry, Revenue Management challenges are larger than ever. Learn what TM Forum is doing to lead the way in addressing and creating industry solutions for increasing profitability through improved billing, data analytics, fraud management, revenue assurance, and benchmarking. Catalysts Demonstrations:
TM Forum Catalysts are a great way of working with other vendors outside of commercial agreements, the resulting atmosphere leads to very interesting collaborative work. Furthermore, being able to discuss the merits of these collaborations with customers in one to one sessions is very rewarding." Greg Scullard, Comptel Tuning your Business for the 21st Century
Learn how TM Forum Benchmarking, Frameworx, Business Process Framework (eTOM), Information Framework (SID), Interfaces and more can be applied in the wireline, 4G/wireless and cable industries to enable service oriented transformation.
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Market Zone: Cable, Defense, SmartGrid, Machine2Machine Leveraging Frameworx to Tackle Market Specific Challenges
The power of
Frameworx is that it applies in to almost any situation where customers, services and networks need to be managed. In this zone you will see how Frameworx and other TM Forum best practices and standards are being applied to solve business and technical challenges such as cable video service level management and rapid multi-national deployment of services to support crisis situations.
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Profiting from New Business Models
Learn how to more effectively develop, monetize, and manage new products and services involving many third-parties. Come and see the latest demonstrations and learn about the TM Forum’s best practices in managing the end-to-end value chain that the new complex environment necessitates. Catalysts Demonstrations:
I was new to TM Forum and this conference has been a great opportunity to gather quickly information about its main activities. The Forumville was well organized and extremely helpful in this sense, as well as the possibility to exchange opinions with other participants and with vendors too." Alberto Baravaglio, Telecom Italia |