Current projects
All of the programs and initiatives underway at TM Forum are designed to help our member companies improve operational agility while reducing costs and risk, engage customers, expand market share and drive revenue growth through new services.
We count on members like you to not only set the priorities for our work, but also to contribute to the collaborative projects that build the thought leadership, guide books, best practices and standards that shape the future for digital business in any industry. Here are all the projects you can join – click the links to learn more or join.
Looking for the ODA project? There are several projects where you can participate to actively develop the ODA standards. The key foundational projects for ODA are: End-to-end ODA, Business architecture, Information systems architecture, Open APIs, Technical architecture & components, and AI operations.
Projects
Join your peers to define a reference architecture and related collateral to enable CSP's to transform network operations by using AI driven closed-loop automation to detect anomalies, determine resolution and implement the required changes to the network within a continuous highly automated framework.
Be a part of a team that is deploying & governing AI operations at scale and to reduce risk.
Make sure your operations are fit for AI and automated era. Join this project so you can redesign and reengineer your operations processes to support AI and contribute to the use cases where AIOps is having the largest impact.
Join this project to help define fully automated zero wait, zero touch, zero trouble innovative network infrastructure and ICT services for CSPs, vertical industries’ users and consumers.
Join your peers in creating a set of TM Forum-approved business architecture models. This suite of assets is based on cross-industry best practices, for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to build and enhance their own business architecture practice. Business Architecture is a practice discipline that utilizes a knowledge base to provide clarity of changes to the business so that strategic changes can be easily and efficiently implemented.
Be part of a key project focused on integrating assurance and risk management into a proactive data-centric assurance framework that is continuously protecting and improving financial integrity while enhancing business value and customer experience.
Get involved in collaboratively developing best practices, tools and blueprints that define customer experience management strategy.
Join your peers to create an ethical and secure framework so that CSPs can easily share and use large sets of data with partners.
Join this project team to focus on overcoming the business challenges related to monetizing connected smart services, managing complex ecosystems of partners required to deliver these services and enabling digital trust end-to-end across a vibrant digital economy.
Work with peers to develop an industry-standard digital maturity model by providing a common vocabulary and an objective way to assess a company’s current and future state.
Be part of the team that is leading the communications industry in skills, culture and organizational transformation by creating a range of best practices, thought-leading collaboration activities, and research, in addition to services such as training and coaching.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is now a strategic imperative the telecoms industry must address to remain competitive, relevant, and sustainable over the next decade, and beyond.. As an industry we are working together to improve our attractiveness to cutting-edge talent and defining a single and universal Inclusion & Diversity Score (IDS).
Be apart of the team that captures the 'voice of the member' to ensure that ODA assets from different teams converge, join-up, and are useable.
Get involved with the project that covers the information systems architecture part of ODA including the ODA functional architecture, Information Framework (SID), Functional Framework (FF), and Business Process Framework (eTOM).
Be part of the team that is developing the “code” part of the TM Forum Open APIs, to be licensed under the Apache 2.0 license mode. This includes re-releasing APIs previously released under RAND
Join your peers to create a set of standard interfaces that enable rapid, repeatable and flexible integration among operations and management systems.
Work with peers to define TM Forum reusable plug-and-play components. This project maintains the master list of components, and defines specific component specifications. In addition to the components, the project also covers the ODA technical architecture.
If you have any questions, please contact collaboration@tmforum.org.