The Information Framework (SID) 14.5 documents and models are listed below.
- All previous versions and other related Information Framework (SID) documents can be found in the Resources Library.
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- To get started with this Release of the Information Framework, start here: READ ME FIRST NOTE Information Framework R14.5.0.
Information Framework How To Guides — Getting Started
Deliverable | Number | Version | Maturity Level | Deliverable Status | New in this Release |
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Information Framework Primer | |||||
Introduction to the concepts, goals and structure of the framework | GB922 Primer | 1.6.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Information Framework Concepts and Principles | |||||
Main document providing the overview of the Framework, Information Framework and Business Process mappings, as well as snapshots of key framework model components | GB922 Concepts and Principles | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Using the Information Framework (UML models) | |||||
How to get started using the Framework Rational Rose model as well as how to extend the Framework model | GB922 Users Guide | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Information Framework XML Schema Overview | |||||
Provides an overview of the SID XML schema, including design considerations, an introduction to the schema, and an example of their use within an application integration framework | GB922 XML Schema Overview | 1.6.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved |
Information Framework Standards Entity Definitions
Deliverable | Number | Version | Maturity Level | Deliverable Status | New in this Release |
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SID Agreement | |||||
Provides the informational characteristics that are unique to an Agreement | GB922 Agreement | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Business Interaction | |||||
This document provides an initial model that supports various types of capacity, such as Product, Service, and Resource capacity, based on a generalized capacity model | GB922 Business Interaction | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Common Business Entity Definitions – Capacity | |||||
This document provides an initial model that supports various types of capacity, such as Product, Service, and Resource capacity, based on a generalized capacity model | GB922 Capacity | 1.2.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Common Business Entity Definitions – Catalog | |||||
This addendum describes the SID Catalog ABEs and also includes the current SID Product Catalog ABE. | GB922 Catalog | 2.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Business Entity Base Types | |||||
Covers base types that have been found to be useful during the documentation of the SID business models | GB922 Base Types | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Configuration and Profiling | |||||
Further develop the Information Framework by introducing new ABEs and developing existing ABEs that had not yet been developed. | GB922 Configuration | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Project | |||||
Provides a generic model, based on current industry best practice that can be used to link parts of the SID model together | GB922 Project | 3.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Location | |||||
Provides a high level framework for the location (which is a complex model with a number of subtleties), explains broad concepts and gives illustrative examples. | GB922 Location | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Metric | |||||
Defines a single view of metric information across the framework | GB922 Metric | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Party | |||||
Defines the information about companies and people. | GB922 Party | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Policy | |||||
Covers the business definition of the Policy model | GB922 Policy | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Root Business Entities | |||||
Defines a set of common business entities that collectively serve as the foundation of the SID business view. | GB922 Root | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Calendar Related Entities | |||||
Covers the non base type entities that are time related | GB922 Calendar (replaces GB922-1T) | 2.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Performance Business Entities | |||||
Describes the SID Service and Resource Performance Aggregate Business Entities (ABEs) | GB922 Performance | 2.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Usage Business Entities | |||||
Uses the Usage abstract business entity to describe any resource-, service- or product-based usage that the external system can read, update and process. | GB922 Usage | 10.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Users and Roles | |||||
Provides the definitions of the User Roles business entities | GB922 Users and Roles | 2.0.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Customer | |||||
Provides the definitions of the customer business entities | GB922 Customer | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Product | |||||
Provides detailed specification of products (ProductSpecifications), the way they are offered into the market (ProductOfferings) and in which they are maintained and perform while in use (Products) | GB922 Product | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Product/Loyalty Business Entity Definitions | |||||
Support of Loyalty in the Information Framework model | GB922 Loyalty | 1.1.4 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Service Overview | |||||
Provides the definition of services, differentiate between “customer facing” and “resource services | GB922 Service Overview | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Quality of Service | |||||
Covers the business definition of QoS entities | GB922 Quality of Service | 1.4.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Logical and Compound Resource | |||||
Presents the LogicalResource Framework with an extensible set of classes and relationships that enable new lower-level LogicalResource concepts to be plugged into it | GB922 Logical and Compound Resource | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Logical and Compound Resource – Computing and Software | |||||
Describes Computing and Software Resources. Included is support for digital services, such as Workplace as a Service (WPaaS). | GB922 Logical and Compound Resource – Computing and Software | 1.2.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Physical Resource | |||||
Presents the management of network entities to better illustrate a complete worked example and to explain some of the more subtle parts of the model | GB922 Physical Resource | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Market / Sales | |||||
Describes the Aggregate Business Entities (ABEs) that comprise the Market/Sales domain of the SID model | GB922 Market Sales | 2.5.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID: Enterprise Domain Revenue Assurance Business Entities | |||||
Describes the Revenue Assurance area of the SID with controls, violations, key performance indicators, objectives, and rules. And includes revenue assurance actions/responses | GB922 Revenue Assurance | 1.5.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Security | |||||
Security business entities reflecting use cases for network defense | GB922 Security | 1.5.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
SID Workforce | |||||
Support for workforce models | GB922 Workforce | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
SID Supplier Partner | |||||
Defines business entities utilized in Supplier and Partner relationships | GB922 Supplier Partner | 2.3.1 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Engaged Party Business Entity Definitions | |||||
Expanded support for multi-role business models. Introduction of this preliminary ABE is as a future replacement for the current Supplier/Partner domain. | GB922 Engaged Party (Preliminary) | 14.1.2 | 4 | TM Forum Approved | |
Test Business Entities | |||||
A new set of Test ABEs in the Common, Product, Service, and Resource domains | GB922 Test | 14.5.0 | 3 | Member Evaluation | X |
Information Framework Standards Model Files
GB92214.5.0 TM Forum Approved X
Deliverable | Number | Version | Maturity Level | Deliverable Status | Comments | New in this Release |
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Information Framework Models | ||||||
Information Framework (SID) Release 14.5 HTML Model zip file (RSA) – GIF | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model with figures in GIF format | GB922 | 14.5.0 | TM Forum Approved | X | ||
Information Framework (SID) Release 14.5 HTML Model zip file (RSA) – PNG | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model with figures in PNG format. | GB922 | 14.5.0 | TM Forum Approved | X | ||
Information Framework (SID) Release 14.5.0 XMI 2.2 format zip file (RSA) | ||||||
XMI interchange format with main SID model contained within a single XMI file for importing the SID into other UML tools that support the interchange format. | GB922 | 14.5.0 | TM Forum Approved | X | ||
Information Framework (SID) Release 14.5.0 in Microsoft Excel | ||||||
Excel model in Information Framework | GB922 | 14.5.0 | TM Forum Approved | X | ||
Information Framework (SID) Release 14.5.0 UML 2.2 Format (RSA) | ||||||
SID UML 2.2 format for tools that can directly read UML 2.2 files rather than or in addition to XMI. | GB922 | 14.5.0 | TM Forum Approved | X | ||
Network Resource Architecture Models | ||||||
Network Resource Architecture Release 14 HTML Model Zip file – JPG | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model in JPEG format | GB922 | 14 | Coming Soon | X | ||
Network Resource Architecture Release 14 HTML Model Zip file – PNG | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model in PNG format | GB922 | 14 | Coming Soon | X | ||
Network Resource Architecture Release 14 XMI Model Zip file | ||||||
XMI interchange format with main SID model contained within a single XMI file for importing the SID into other UML tools that support the interchange format. | GB922 | 14 | Coming Soon | X | ||
Network Resource Architecture Release 14 UML Model Zip file | ||||||
UML Model in Project Archive format. | GB922 | 14 | Coming Soon | X | ||
Network Resource Architecture Release 14 UML 2.0 Model Zip file | ||||||
SID UML 2.0 format for tools that can directly read UML 2.0 files rather than or in addition to XMI. | GB922 | 14 | Coming Soon | X | ||
Umbrella Information Models | ||||||
Umbrella Information Model Release 13.5 HTML Model Zip file – JPG | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model in JPEG format | GB922 | 13.5 | TM Forum Approved | |||
Umbrella Information Model Release 13.5 HTML Model Zip file – PNG | ||||||
Web browsable version of the UML 2.x Model in PNG format | GB922 | 13.5 | TM Forum Approved | |||
XMI interchange format with main SID model contained within a single XMI file for importing the SID into other UML tools that support the interchange format. | GB922 | 13.5 | TM Forum Approved | |||
GB922 | 13.5 | TM Forum Approved | ||||
Umbrella Information Model Release 13.5 UML 2.0 Model Zip file | ||||||
SID UML 2.0 format for tools that can directly read UML 2.0 files rather than or in addition to XMI. | GB922 | 13.5 | TM Forum Approved |
Information Framework Reference Material
Deliverable | Number | Version | Maturity Level | Deliverable Status | New in this Release |
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Updates and additional components from last release of the Framework Suite of documents ; and list all the documents composing the Framework Suite | RN310 | 14.5.0 | N/A | Reference Material | X |
This excel document provides a report on model differences between release 14. and 14.5, sorted by domain and ABE. | GB922 Differences | 14.5.0 | N/A | Reference Material | X |