The TM Forum develops the technical solutions that the telemanagement industry adopts and deploys. It’s a virtual research and development consortium staffed by TM Forum members – the best minds in the industry – and it’s now established as the de facto standards holder in the OSS/BSS industry.

Standards have always driven the telecom and network technology markets – that’s because network components from different vendors must interoperate to be any use at all. Now the same imperative is making itself felt in telemanagement software. The standards developed by the TM Forum and implemented by its members, enable user organizations to mix and match systems, selecting best of breed for each specialist area. They also reduce research and development costs for telemanagement software vendors, accelerating their time to market and enabling them to deliver cutting edge innovations to their customers.

The TM Forum continues to expand its importance and influence in the converged communications industry in these exciting times.

All parts of the NGOSS framework -- particularly eTOM and SID -- are increasingly accepted as de facto standards for analyzing telecom business processes and for building easy-to-use systems to automate those processes.