Catalyst Program


The Catalyst program is the TM Forum’s living lab -- enabling service providers, system integrators, and hardware/software vendors to work together to solve common, critical industry challenges. The program provides an opportunity for multi-company, multi-national teams to work together in a collaborative environment with emerging technologies and capabilities to solve some of the most pressing operational and interoperability issues. And, as in the past, the Catalyst program continues to directly support the New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program by implementing many of the NGOSS concepts and principles.

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The Catalyst Showcase at TeleManagement World is the only venue in the world where live demonstrations on today's leading edge, multi-vendor OSS/BSS solutions take place. These collaborative implementation projects encourage and support the development of useable, standards-based commercial off the shelf (COTS) products needed to provide a sound business solution.

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 About the Catalyst Program
Catalyst Program
The Catalyst Program is the BSS/OSS proving ground. It provides service providers, systems integrators, and hardware/software vendors the environment to work together to solve common, critical industry challenges through collaborative short term projects that culminate in live demonstrations. Solutions built by Catalyst teams are based on TM Forum standards that enable ease of integration across multiple Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) products.
Frequently Asked Questions
In this area, you will find Frequently Asked Questions about the Catalyst Showcase, including information about the TM Forum, what is a Catalyst Project, benefits of participation, cost and how to get involved with this program.
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 Testimonials


“The TM Forum’s Catalyst Program has been a great way for us to team with service providers and vendors to demonstrate how Pantero’s software enables the use of the SID in very practical ways to simplify and speed OSS/BSS integration in a service-oriented architecture. It is a great outcome for the industry when companies can come together in a non-commercial setting to demonstrate how emerging standards can be used in very concrete ways to deliver business benefits to the service provider community.”– John Petrie, Director, Business Development, Progress Software


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