Catalyst Program

Past Catalyst Participants – TM Forum Live! Asia 2017

Below are Catalyst projects demonstrated at TM Forum Live! Asia 2017

If you are interested in a Catalyst project, please contact Tania Fernandes ([email protected]) 

UNIFIED DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The objective of this Catalyst is to ensure optimal deployment and utilization of infrastructure resources while taking full advantage of cloud computing properties such as hyperscaling to launch new offerings to the market quickly, attain service agility and to stay ahead of the competition. To do so, we need to create a common fabric across the organization in which infrastructure resources are pooled and managed uniformly.

Champion: Globe Telecom, Telefonica
Participants: Amdocs, Dell EMC, Ericsson, VMWare, HCL Technologies HK

JOINT AGILE DELIVERY- PHASE III

The objective of this Catalyst is to contribute processes, models, and API’s to TM Forum to enable the agile development and delivery of world-class software that capitalizes on cross-organizational (cross-”value fabric”) synergies to dramatically improve TTM,  quality, and cost.

Champions: Orange, AT&T, Telecom Italia
Participant: Huawei, Infosys, Spirent, Neural Technologies 

EMPOWERING BUSINESS ASSURANCE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The objective of this Catalyst is to enable and support company digital transformation process to ensure that business goals in terms of customer satisfaction and revenue are achieved. To do this so we need to adapt RA & FM operations to the latest technologies including AI, ML and BDA. This will help better detect and prevent revenue leakages and to ensure customers experience.

Champions: Orange, Deutsche Telecom, BT, Telia.
Participants: Amdocs, Brytlyt, WeDo Technologies, Subex

OAsIS – OPEN APIS FOR A VIBRANT IOT ECOSYSTEM

The objective of this Catalyst is to able to onboard new connected things, new applications into the ecosystem with less effort on the integration to provide the customer with more options in terms of connected things and IoT applications, and the IoT ecosystem becomes more attractive to other partners and customers causing a network effect. To do this, a common set of APIs is needs allowing communication between connected things, platforms and applications to be identified and standardized. 

Champion: Globe, Singtel, AT&T, KDDI
Participant: Ericsson, Neural Technologies, Dell EMC

INTERCONNECTING BUSINESS WITH SPONSORED DATA

This catalyst will deliver a fabric for providers connecting a broad set of enterprises from different verticals into a mobile sponsored data offering.  The catalyst delivers a blueprint that can bring together enterprise, brands and CSP to offer complete sponsored data offerings to end users. 

Champion: Orange, NTT
Participants: Sigma, Comptel, Cloudstreet, Cerillion 

PARTNERING PLATFORMS FOR MEF SERVICES

The objective of this Catalyst is to show the use of TM Forum assets applied to the MEF use cases identified in the LSO Architecture and then follow through with the implementation of standardized specifications.

Champion: MEF, Orange, Vodafone Group, Telstra
Participants: DGIT, Inomial, Riverbed, Ciena

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MAKES SMART BPM SMARTER

This Catalyst will extend Smart BPM to leverage decision management modelling and execution.

Champion: Sri Lanka Telecom, KDDI, Orange
Participants: HPE, Trisotech