TM Forum members are working diligently to provide a standardized best practice for the enablement of open, interoperable virtualized digital services focusing on maximizing re-use, agility of operations and scalability to meet future demands. As more services are being developed using a mash-up of existing capabilities as well as products in the industry, a consistent framework for enabling end to end management of these services across the eco-system is required with particular attention paid to the integration of these capabilities to reduce customization tax while ensuring delivery of excellent end customer experience.
As ecosystems have become the primary model to deliver digital services, this work stream continues to develop and evolve repeatable and consistent processes and approaches to setting up partnering arrangements, on-boarding new partners, sharing information about products used between partners, and evolving partner relationships. TM Forum provides how-to guidance to both business and technical audiences who need to rapidly design, implement, operate and monetize digital services with partners in extended value chains.
The key assets for an Open Digital Economy include:
| Enabling technology | Open Digital Ecosystem | Digital Services | APIs |
| B2B2X | Reference Architecture | Catalog | Partnering |
Project Themes:
B2B2X
As industry verticals become more “digital” through transformation and “digital natives” scale to enterprise class, a significant sea change of transformation takes place. This transformation must be managed to avoid risk, increase agility, and avoid development costs and lengthy time to market. In a collaborative approach, the desired business outcome is the ability to follow best practices and optimize the ability to participate in an ecosystem of partnerships that can scale predictably including working principles, interface definitions, process and governance that drive innovation.
Through a collaborative approach, a set of best practices for establishing and managing digital service – based partnerships has been published. Based on the Osterwalder Business Model Canvas, this reference material will continue to grow through ongoing working groups.
Goal:
- Develop best practices for partnerships toolset and guidebooks for digital services and IoT applications
Keven McCaffrey, Director, Tr3dent, and one of the co-leads of the Open Digital project B2B2X workstream, discusses what the B2B2X workstream is about and its role:
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Downloads:
TR211 Business Partnering Guide Touch Points Resource R15.0.0
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TMF424 B2B2X Business Scenario Template R16.5.0
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TR217, Partnership Revenue Models, Version 0.5.2
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IG1107 B2B2X Support in Frameworx: Service Lifecycle Stages and Enablers V1.13.1
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GB982 B2B2X Partnering Developer Pack V0.6.1
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DSRA
TM Forum members are working diligently to provide a standardized best practice to enable open, interoperable virtualized digital services focusing on maximizing re-use, agility of operations and scalability to meet future demands. As more services are being developed using a mash-up of existing capabilities as well as products in the industry, a consistent framework for enabling end to end management of these services across the eco-system is required with particular attention paid to the integration of these capabilities to reduce customization tax while ensuring delivery of excellent end customer experience.
Goal:
- Develop a standard reference architecture blueprint for digital services and IoT applications
Catalyst project: Agility in Action: Real World Use of DSRA:
Service providers are transitioning to a more agile platform incorporating many elements of the DSRA into their reference architecture. This Catalyst project reviewed the accomplishments so far, delivering real-world feedback against the DSRA and reviewed the work still to be accomplished in building an agile enterprise.
Downloads:
Access the Digital Services Reference Architecture (DSRA) Guide, which provides a standardized best practice for the enablement of open, interoperable virtualized digital services focusing on maximizing re-use, agility of operations and scalability to meet future demands. It enables collaboration and product composition from a broad set of building-block services spanning multiple companies, industries, clouds, networks and devices.
IG1126 Introduction to the Digital Services Reference Architecture R14.5.1
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Read an introduction to the Digital Services Reference Architecture (DSRA), the Forum’s proposal to enable richer and yet open, distributed digital collaboration with the essential tools to support increasingly demanding technical and commercial models.