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Catalysts are the heart of TM Forum collaboration

With hundreds of companies and particpants from around the world over the ast few years, our Catalyst program highlights the fantastic collaboration work undertaken by our members. Here is how it works:

Catalyst Roles

There are two types of roles in a Catalyst:

  1. A champion is an organization seeking a solution to problem. Champions are generally service providers
  2. A participant is an organization contributing to solving the problem. Participants are generally integrators and vendors – all types and sizes.

Catalyst Program Benefits

Catalyst participants gain extensive benefit, both business and technical through their participation. The short term duration and common goals of the projects lead to close working relationships being formed, that often blossom to long term business relationships.

Virtual Research and Development

  • Learn how your solution works with others in the industry in a hands-on environment
  • Collaborate with like-minded companies on best practices

Rapid and Cost Effective Results

  • Catalyst projects take place over a set amount of time, so results are typically guaranteed in less than 6 months
  • Service providers get the results they want without the constraints of an RFP process and huge budgetary investments in their labs, enabling better investment decisions

Develop Working Relationships

  • Service providers gain exposure to a variety of vendors and can directly influence product development
  • Vendors get real requirements first hand from service providers
  • Formal business relationships and partnerships frequently develop due to trust built up over the project lifecycle

Marketing benefits

Marketing Exposure for Catalyst Projects:

  • Catalysts information to be hosted on the TM Forum website
  • Opportunity to publish additional blogs, written interviews and articles
  • Catalysts to be included in relevant Inform weekly newsletters sent to 92,000+ subscribed readers
  • Catalysts to be promoted via TM Forum social media channels (including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn)

Event Participation for Projects:

  • Each Catalyst project will receive exhibition space to present their project demonstration (new projects of phases) or project results (follow on showcases)

Video:

  • Catalyst projects will be professionally videotaped at all Action Week events and TM Forum Digital Transformation World events. Videos will be uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube (over 15,000 combined views)

For pricing information on Catalyst program visit here.

For more information, contact Catalyst Program Manager, Tania Fernandes at tfernandes@tmforum.org.

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