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Open API Adoption Assessment Report – Q2 2019

Understanding the usage trends of TM Forum Open APIs by vendors and communication service providers (CSPs) globally

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TM Forum Open APIs will help enterprises leverage services across the ecosystem, providing greater options to monetize and also provide the required flexibility.

Kannan Ramakrishnan, Head – Product Management , TCS HOBS

Our customers need to be able capitalize on new opportunities in digital time, driven by 5G, edge cloud, automation, machine learning, and other emerging technologies. Open architectures and APIs are critical for the flexibility to leverage a selection of capabilities to drive their business objectives.

Brian McCann, Chief Product Officer, Nokia Software

LotusFlare is signing the Open API Manifesto because we want to help ensure the continuous growth and innovation of the community in support of these industry agreed APIs.

Brennan McDonald, Business Development Manager, LotusFlare

Globetom intends to support a significant collection of TM Forum Open APIs as part of its product portfolio to offer standardised, open integration platforms to our customers.

Philip Stander, CEO, Globetom

The innovation and progress that is required to keep pace with our client's needs is only possible through collaboration and standardization.

Rhyan Neble, Vice President of Product Innovation, ETI Software Solutions

Adoption Assessment Survey Q2 2019 results

The pilot survey opened in March 2019 and had 12 vendor respondents and 7 communication service provider (CSP) respondents. 

The results show most vendors have a good level of intention and ambition for implementation of TM Forum Open APIs but at this time they have relatively low maturity in the roll-out of their implementations due to the cadence of their development cycles.

Vendor maturity is still ahead of CSP maturity, which is as expected given the CSP dependency on vendors and the complexity of introduction into live systems. As expected, the more mature vendor deployments are available from vendors with smaller product portfolios that allow for quicker turnaround and adoption of new technologies. 

CSP intent to adopt Open APIs is also ahead of vendor intent for key API collections. This provides motivation for vendors to become partners in the growth of the new 5G. CSPs also place higher priority on the Resource and Service API collections whereas vendors are more mature in the Product and Customer API collections.

Vendor Adoption assessment report results

VAAR Pilot Results with Overall Adoption – Q2 2019

Vendor Focus by API collection – Q2 2019

CSP Adoption assessment report results

CAAR Pilot Results with Overall Adoption – Q2 2019

CSP focus by API collection – Q2 2019

Comparison of CSP vs Vendor results

Vendor vs CSP Focus by API collection – Q2 2019

Future of the reports – Next steps

The above charts show the first results from the rolling report which will produce results every calendar quarter. As the survey matures it will evolve to stay relevant to changes and updates in the market.

To take part in the latest survey please follow the links below:

Vendor SurveyCSP Survey

  • Open API Portal
  • Open API Manifesto
  • Open API Training, Certification & Conformance
  • My API Story
  • Adoption Assessment Report
    • Overview
    • Report Q2 2021
  • Open API Catalysts
  • UPCOMING EVENTS: see the schedule for 2024

TM Forum Open APIs will help enterprises leverage services across the ecosystem, providing greater options to monetize and also provide the required flexibility.

Kannan Ramakrishnan, Head – Product Management , TCS HOBS

Our customers need to be able capitalize on new opportunities in digital time, driven by 5G, edge cloud, automation, machine learning, and other emerging technologies. Open architectures and APIs are critical for the flexibility to leverage a selection of capabilities to drive their business objectives.

Brian McCann, Chief Product Officer, Nokia Software

LotusFlare is signing the Open API Manifesto because we want to help ensure the continuous growth and innovation of the community in support of these industry agreed APIs.

Brennan McDonald, Business Development Manager, LotusFlare

Globetom intends to support a significant collection of TM Forum Open APIs as part of its product portfolio to offer standardised, open integration platforms to our customers.

Philip Stander, CEO, Globetom

The innovation and progress that is required to keep pace with our client's needs is only possible through collaboration and standardization.

Rhyan Neble, Vice President of Product Innovation, ETI Software Solutions

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