TM Forum
Keith Willetts, Chairman
The TeleManagement Forum ( TMF also TMForum or ) is a consortium of over 700 companies in the IT and telecommunications industry from more than 70 countries. Objective is to provide guidelines and concepts for improving the management and operation of information and communication networks ( network management).
The TMForum was founded in 1988 by Amdahl, AT & T, British Telecom, Hewlett -Packard, Northern Telecom, Telecom Canada, STC and Unisys.
Work programs
A key program of work TMForum is the development of TMForum Solution Frameworks - New Generation Operations Systems and Software ( NGOSS ) - a standard for operational support systems ( engl. Operations Support System).
NGOSS defines a general framework for business processes for the development and deployment of operational support systems to make them more flexible and easier. This NGOSS relies on the development of a system based on service-oriented architecture standards.
Results of NGOSS are not limited to:
- Enhanced Telecom Operations Map ( eTOM ), a framework for the logical grouping of business processes for management systems of companies in the telecommunications and IT services
- Shared Information & Data Model ( SID), a generic information and data model
- Telecom Applications Map (TAM ), a standardized model to group functions and data in business applications and services of a telecommunications company
- Technology Neutral Architecture (TNA ), a series of documents for the integration of the framework by harmonizing the architecture. Includes TMForum interfaces.