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Build your Frameworx foundation: Learn to implement a common information model covering every aspect of your business

Speaking the same language, understanding the meaning of the words used and having access to information is of vital importance to the success of any business.

Focused on a major aspect of TM Forum’s Frameworx suite of standards, TM Forum’s Information Framework (SID) Fundamentals training course helps you reach implementation stage quickly by taking the guess work out of creating a common information model. We’ll show you how to take the thousands of words and concepts related to managing a business and create a common and simple way to define and communicate them.

Learn to avoid the common misunderstandings by using a standardized format to identify and define entities, their attributes and the relationships with each other, thereby saving you hundreds of hours of integration project work.

Level: Foundation

Pre-requisites:
TM Forum Frameworx Overview is recommended
TM Forum Business Process Framework Fundamentals is recommended

Note: This course is suitable for a non-technical audience. However, being familiar with Unified Modelling language (UML) is suggested.

Who should attend?

• Software designers
• Systems integrators
• Data modelers
• Solutions Architects
• Anyone creating or responding to an RFx
• Anyone involved in managing or developing a support architecture

What will you learn?

1. Unit 1 – Introducing the Information Framework
   • What is the Information Framework? Why standardized information is important. The benefits of using the Information Framework. How the Framework is constructed and developed. How and where the Framework can be used
   • The Framework (from the bottom up)
   • Documenting the Framework
   • Mapping to the Business Process Framework (eTOM).
2. Unit 2 – Information Framework Structure
3. Unit 3 – Information Framework Modeling Patterns. The value of using repeatable patterns to extend and develop the Framework
4. Unit 4 – Extending the Information Framework: how to apply the development guidelines
5. Unit 5 – Conformance to the Information Framework

Course objectives:

Solution architects will better understand the role of data in providing the overall solution, highlighting:

• The importance of consistent terminology
• The ability to more easily integrate products
• The ability to source the right solutions to satisfy the information requirements that enable you run your business more effectively

Product designers and developers will gain the tools and language to model any aspect of corporate information and produce software solutions that are

• Easier to develop and integrate
• Easier to sell
• Flexible – allowing a faster time to market
• A time-tested starting point for information models and database development

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