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In the quest to build a Service-Oriented Enterprise (SOE), an enterprise requires new business models, new technologies, and new partnering agreements. Those goals can be achieved only with an end-to-end view of business processes and an understanding of the groupings of functions and data within their applications. To build that end-to-end view, TM Forum is extending its core frameworks through the newly launched Blueprint Initiative. Through this program, TM Forum will tightly integrate key components of its core architecture, the Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). Those key components include: Business Process Framework (eTOM); Information Framework (SID); Application Framework (TAM).
The Architecture Harmonization of TM Forum’s Solution Frameworks will improve all dimensions of the enterprise, such as business processes, management data/information, applications, and integration/transformation methodology. With Architecture Harmonization, organizations can build systems and strategy using modular, reusable building blocks known as "Business Services (also called "NGOSS Contracts). These Business Services work like Lego bricks—each relating to a standard business function, such as "service launch," "billing," or "customer care.” The initial content of the Business Services repository will be sourced by TM Forum interfaces from the TM Forum Interface Program— a key part of TM Forum’s Integration Framework.
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| Business Benefits | Reduce development costs;
Speed time to market; | Enable end-end process automation; | | Improve ability to open up to third parties on a commercial basis; | Align business and IT goals (note recent integration of ITIL best practices into the Business Process Framework (eTOM). | |
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