Ready for ODA
for suppliers
Vendors strengthen commitment to TMF's ODA
The Open Dgital Architecture (ODA) provides a blueprint to help CSPs transform into agile digital organizations that can rapidly bring new products and services to market while improving customer experience. Suppliers offering ‘Ready for ODA’ product lines are well equipped to support their CSP customers with solutions that comply with today’s ODA specifications and roadmap commitments linked to the architecture’s evolving standards.
Update: The first 8 companies (Alvatross, CSG, Ericsson, Hansen Technologies, Huawei, Netcracker, Oracle, and Whale Cloud) were announced at DTW23 Ignite as offering key telco solutions that are recognized as ‘Ready for ODA’
Early adopters see significant value in being ODA compliant
Suppliers are adopting TM Forum’s ODA components and Open APIs which has redefined the software lifecycle for the telecoms industry.
ODA provides an architecture blueprint enables suppliers to take an agile approach to rapidly bring new products and services to market within a CSP.
Suppliers offering ‘Ready for ODA’ product lines are well equipped to support their CSP customers with solutions that comply with today’s ODA specifications and roadmap commitments linked to the architecture’s evolving standards.
Our members reveal why Ready for ODA is so important to them
Alvatross on start up benefits of RfODA
Gareth Kentish VP Global sales at Alvatross explains why being RfODA levels the playing field for start-ups
CSG on the benefits of ODA
CSG’s Greg Tilton, Vice President, Catalog, Quote & Order, explains why they focused on becoming RfODA as a value propositions to the CSP’s customers.
Hansen aligns to ODA
Hansen’s Brian Cappellani, VP Technology Strategy why they needed to align to ODA
Huawei: Why ODA important for service providers
Huawei’s Mr Maurice Ma, President, Software Business, explains why ODA is so important to service providers to improve agility and interoperability.
ODA heroes: ODA adoption is critical
TM Forum members explain why they support the Open Digital Architecture (ODA), the innovation it enables and their vision of how the industry can collaborate for the benefit of operators, vendors and customers.
Whale Cloud on why ODA is necessary for the industry
Whale Cloud’s Mr Steven Cho, Chief Marketing officer explains why RfODA helps solve the challenges and benefits both operators and vendors alike.
Alvatross on start up benefits of RfODA
Gareth Kentish VP Global sales at Alvatross explains why being RfODA levels the playing field for start-ups
CSG on the benefits of ODA
CSG’s Greg Tilton, Vice President, Catalog, Quote & Order, explains why they focused on becoming RfODA as a value propositions to the CSP’s customers.
Hansen aligns to ODA
Hansen’s Brian Cappellani, VP Technology Strategy why they needed to align to ODA
Huawei: Why ODA important for service providers
Huawei’s Mr Maurice Ma, President, Software Business, explains why ODA is so important to service providers to improve agility and interoperability.
ODA heroes: ODA adoption is critical
TM Forum members explain why they support the Open Digital Architecture (ODA), the innovation it enables and their vision of how the industry can collaborate for the benefit of operators, vendors and customers.
Whale Cloud on why ODA is necessary for the industry
Whale Cloud’s Mr Steven Cho, Chief Marketing officer explains why RfODA helps solve the challenges and benefits both operators and vendors alike.
How can my company get assessed as Ready for ODA
A status achieved by a software product or product line, recognizing its foundation in ODA’s key principles and its roadmap commitment to support ODA’s evolving standards. The Ready for ODA status is maintained through a biannual major review using the ODA Success Framework, and a minor review in the intervening years
To be considered for as eligible for a Ready for ODA Success Framework aassessment a supplier must by achieve a threshold level of engagement with ODA :
- Sign the ODA Manifesto
- Meet a membership-tier-dependent threshold of ODA Producer Points*.
- Meet a membership-tier-dependent threshold of ODA Consumer Points.
*The ODA producer points are given in recognition of a member organization's commitment to leading and contribution to creating ODA content within collaboration projects, Catalyst projects or the production of Open APIs.
The criteria for Ready for ODA are assessed jointly by the CSP and TM Forum’s CTO office using the ODA Success Framework – a light but rigorous evaluation based on 6 key dimensions necessary for delivering successful business outcomes using ODA. The 6 assessment dimensions are:
- Principles and rules
- Skills
- Open APIs
- Components
- Agile governance
- Process models
The industry needs a common understanding
Communications service providers (CSPs) are facing a dilemma. While their revenue and growth continue to stagnate, they are under tremendous pressure to simultaneously cut costs, deploy 5G, create differentiated customer experiences and overhaul the way they develop and deliver new services. From the defining their business needs, through designing information systems and implementing Open APIs and data models, to managing the actual deployment with their software technology partners, Telcos who want to move from the bottom left quadrant in the diagram below to TechCos in the top right need an industry-wide common understanding such as the Open Digital Architecture (ODA).
ODA provides the building blocks for growth and efficiency
ODA replaces traditional operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) for CSPs with a new approach to building software for zero-touch interoperability and creating a dynamic plug and play environment through its components and canvas concepts. These concepts provide the building blocks for CSPs to evolve towards a TechCos company through:
ODA for efficiency: ODA supports CSPs to automate their operations so they can focus on improving customer experience while still improving productivity. Using AI and Open APIs to enable automated closed-loop intent-based automation, CSPs can focus on providing real-time zero-touch operations to drive towards digital efficiency.
ODA for growth: ODA enables CSPs to become digital enablers, working with ecosystem partners to create zero-touch partnering solutions for vertical markets (smart factories, autonomous vehicles, digital healthcare…) based on 5G, network slicing, edge computing, AI and other advanced technologies.
