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Morristown, NJ – May 31, 2007 – The TM Forum announced today the winners of this year’s “TM Forum Excellence Awards.” The Forum established the Excellence Awards program to recognize the global leaders in operational excellence, and acknowledge the contributions that continue to take this industry in new and innovative directions. Winners are recognized for their pioneering approach to 21st century business operations.
“It was an incredibly challenging process to select this year’s winners with the number of applicants and quality of submissions received,” said Martin Creaner, President of the TM Forum. “However the winners distinguished themselves by their significant contributions to the industry at large and the further advancement of TM Forum best-practices.”
The 2007 Excellence Awards winners are:
Best New OSS Product – Arantech
Best Practices Award Service Provider – Korea Telecom (KT)
Best Practices Award – Supplier or SI – Progress Software
Most Innovative Supplier – Highdeal
Prosspero TMF Standards Adoption, Service Provider – BT
Prosspero TMF Standards Adoption, Supplier – HP
Best Trade Show Marketing Campaign – Nakina Systems
Best Catalyst Project – Product and Service Assembly (Phase 2) Project
Awards were presented last week at a special dinner ceremony in Nice, France; timed in conjunction with the organization’s annual TeleManagement World event, which ran from May 21-24th in Nice.
The call for entries for the 2008 awards will begin Q4 2007. Visit www.tmforum.org for more details.
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About the TeleManagement Forum
With approximately 600 members in 65 countries, the TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of telecom, media & information services. The TM Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.
The TM Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.
For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and TM Forum’s Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org
Media Contact
Juliet Shavit
TM Forum
+1 215 504 4272
jshavit@tmforum.org
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