As the name implies, common data model or CIM, is a business (and technical) model of entities that are used during a telecommunication operator’s activities. As the businesses and the operational functions become complex, integrations between tools that are handling those also become complex. Telecommunications, probably the most complex business among the others has been… Read More »
OSS is all about automations and tools automate things. Maybe we should pay more attention to TAM rather to eTOM. This is all about marketing indeed. TMForum “sells” eTOM in a very successful way. TAM, on the other hand, seems to be left on one side to it’s destiny. If you have a look at the documentation… Read More »
Anyone who enters the complex world of OSS/BSS transformations, will face different technologies, standards and their terminology they carry with. Management standards depict the terms, and the terms become the language people talk to each other. Take IT for example. ITIL is the dominating de-facto standard for managing the whole lifecycle of IT services, from birth to… Read More »
TMForum Frameworx(NGOSS), defines 4 views. These are different perspectives for looking at a service providers’ challenges and how to solve them. First one is the “Business View”. Business View, focuses on the business and try to define and scope the business problem/ business case to be solved. A business problem may be “implementing trouble management… Read More »
TAM (Telecom Application Map) is one of the frameworks of the NGOSS (Frameworx) initiative. Its main goal is to draw the boundaries of the OSS/BSS applications. Standardized business processes and the applications that run those business processes, emerged in parallel. However, the OSS application vendors named and scoped their applications by themselves without following a… Read More »
SID (Shared Information and Data model) is one of the frameworks of the TMForum NGOSS Frameworx suite. It is also called the Information Framework. SID can be considered as the language of the NGOSS. It helps us to identify the business entities that play role in the business processes of a telecommunications service provider. As… Read More »
OSS/J defines a common interface structure and SID based data model for the messages that are delivered between different OSS components (FM, PM, TT etc.). It aims to deliver interoperability between those components with minimum effort. OSS/J initiative (previously by JCP, now TMF) is composed of specifications. Specifications are issued for OSS domains such as… Read More »
eTOM is a map which categorizes and classifies the business processes of a service provider in a hierarchical structure. It gives us a common vocabulary of processes which brings huge benefits in defining business interactions with other entities such as suppliers, partners and customers. It also acts like a marketing tool where product vendors use… Read More »