From the opening moments of the plenary session when the audience dubbed cloud services as their top interest, the focus of this year’s TM Forum Management World Conference in Orlando was clear: Service providers and their suppliers are moving rapidly to understand how to apply the cloud to their businesses and monetize the resultant services. In May, at TMWorld in Nice, attendees were skeptical of cloud hype. In Orlando, the pace of experimentation was apparent and a flurry of announcements confirmed...