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TM Forum Webcasts are a convenient way to get an overview from industry experts on TM Forum standards and hot topics. To facilitate your learning and to help you find the information you require, the TM Forum has streamlined our offering to bring you three types of Webinars, each with a distinctive focus:
- Solutions Webinar - addresses industry issues and shares industry solutions developed by TM Forum Members often with a real-world case study.
- Technical Webinar - flagship of the TM Forum webinar program linking the work of the Collaboration program with the individual work of a TM Forum Member company often with a case study illustrating the benefits to the industry.
- Leadership Webinar - focuses on the future issues of the industry and addresses the changing and very challenging environment of the information, communications and entertainment services industry.
Our On-Demand Webcast collection now also includes Podcasts which you can download and listen to at your convenience. |
| Attend the live events whenever possible and watch our On-Demand Webcasts (Webinars and Podcasts) when and as many times as you want. | |
| Upcoming Webinars |
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Yankee Group |
Managing the Chaos: How to Launch New Services and Bundles Faster with an Enterprise Product Catalog
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
In this era of convergence, service providers must realize the full profit potential of their services; they must be able to launch new services and bundles faster than ever before and at minimal cost.Attend this free webinar to hear real-world examples of the need for evolving product management strategies that span business, operations, and financial aspects of the provider's offerings using an enterprise product catalog (EPC), and that allow delivery of truly innovative services as well as a compelling consumer experience that differentiates service providers from their competition.
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Mobile Advertising: Buy In or Lose Out
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 11:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
The opportunity to develop new revenue streams through mobile advertising is real but not without hazards. Please join us as we explore how to effectively develop third party ecosystems, deploy new business models, and deliver personalized mobile advertising.
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Stratecast |
Unlock Partner Potential – Creative Strategies for Partner Relationship Management
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
It is becoming increasingly necessary for service providers to accelerate their growth by developing strong partnership capabilities through effective and efficient Partner Relationship Management while keeping existing services up and running. This Webinar examines innovative ways for service providers to leverage existing relationships and develop new partner models to maximize revenues and provides an overview of the key market drivers, challenges and opportunities in doing so.
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Telefonica |
Network Performance Measurement: A Key Step Toward Operational Excellence
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
Are you looking to improve the quality of the services your business provides yet at the same time get more efficient so as to obtain higher yields? Would you like to know the best practices for ensuring your network infrastructure runs optimally and delivers the range of services your customers depend on? If the answer is yes, attend this Webinar.
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Frost & Sullivan
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Web Self-Service: Meeting the Demand for Better Customer Experience
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
It is a commonly held belief that web self-service portals have not lived up to their potential as a cost-savings mechanism for businesses looking to provide alternative forms of customer service. However, new research confirms that web self-service has moved beyond simple cost and is now a critical element of the customer experience for B2C and B2B customer segments.
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SOA and NGOSS Contracts: A Practical Approach to Integration
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
Many service providers are achieving success by applying the best practices of NGOSS to their IT transformation projects. This is because NGOSS standards cover the key technical aspects necessary for success — architecture (TNA), applications (Applications Framework - TAM), process (Business Process Framework - eTOM) and data (Information Framework - SID).
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End To End Approach to Service Quality and SLA Management
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
Quality expectations of customers are increasing, thus acting as catalyst for changes in service providers’ business models and their approach to overall service quality management. Introduction of SDP and Service Delivery Framework has increased flexibility for easily creating and co-provisioning services, resulting in a more complex end-to-end business case for delivering services.
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TeliaSonera |
Optimizing the Move to NextGen: Achieving the Required Business Insight and Flexibility Using PLM, Active Catalog and BPM
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 10:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
This Webinar will cover highlights of the TM Forum Catalyst project ”Optimizing the Move to NextGen: Achieving the Required Business Insight and Flexibility Using PLM, Active Catalog and BPM.” Under Telia Sonera’s sponsorship, Axiom / Comptel, Tribold, and Vitria are teaming to develop a methodology, best practices, and Proof of Concept to help Service Providers address the challenges inherent in a dual environment of Legacy and NextGen networks and systems.
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| Sponsorship Opportunities
Webcasts are sponsored by TM Forum Member companies in exchange for marketing exposure to our highly targeted audience. Please read some of our sponsors' testimonials.
 NEW! Audio Podcasts are now included as part of the Webinar package or stand-alone sponsorships. This powerful tool will extend the reach of your message and get it in front of the audience most interested in what your company has to offer.
Based on the tremendous response to the original Webinar program we are now offering three types of Webinars (outlined above) as well as Podcasts all providing prime opportunities to showcase your company's solutions to specific industry issues.
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| On-Demand Webcasts |
Sponsored by:
 With Guest Speaker from:
Verizon |
Revolutionizing Call Data Record Management at Verizon
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 11:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
To help maximize quality of service, revenue recognition and profitability for the future, telecommunications companies must be able to store and analyze much more call detail data than they can today (months or years worth, not just days or weeks). This webinar will feature a breakthrough case study from Verizon explaining their decision to implement a new call detail record (CDR) data warehouse and the technology and approaches they have applied to create and maintain it.
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Forrester |
Enhancing IT Agility —
Verizon’s Innovative Application Portfolio Management
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 11:00am Eastern Time - Duration: 1 Hour |
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All major corporations, especially communications providers, must deal with a large number of overlapping, disparate IT applications accumulated or acquired over the years. This ragtag portfolio of applications can hinder business agility, especially when they contain common or redundant customer and product information. Without a clear, detailed understanding of your application portfolio, it is difficult to know what actions to take, what dependencies exist, where the strengths and weaknesses lie from both business and technology perspectives, and how closely these applications align with business strategy and product/service strategy.
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What is NGOSS and What Can It Do for You? |
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Recorded: Thursday, June 12, 2008
NGOSS is the industry’s only true standard for development and deployment of easy to integrate, flexible, easy to manage OSS/BSS components. NGOSS defines for Service Providers and their suppliers a comprehensive, integrated framework for developing, procuring and deploying operational and business support systems and software.
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Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOA
Recorded: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
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SOA relies on standards. To fulfill the promise of SOA, you need data interoperability. It stands to reason then that there need to be standards for data interoperability. John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software, shares the good news that the standards are here, and they're ready for prime time.
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