TMF Frameworx
CategoryTelecommunications Standards
TeleManagement Forum (TMF) is a global industry association that develops Frameworx — a suite of best practices and standards that enable a service-oriented, highly automated and efficient approach to business operations of telecommunications service providers.
Carrier Business Operations
Telecom Integrated Business Architecture
TMF Frameworx 18.5 offers best practices guidelines and practical tools helping to improve the end-to-end management of telecommunications services.
The Integrated Business Architecture consists of the following key components:
- Business Process Framework — a set of guidelines, also known as Enhanced Telecom Operations Map (eTOM), which enables the implementation of the business process driven approach to managing a telecommunications enterprise.
- Information Framework — a unified reference data architecture, also known as Shared Information and Data Model (SID), which defines telecommunications-specific business objects, their characteristics and relationships.
- Application Framework — a set of guidelines, also known as Telecom Application Map (TAM), which describes the way applications are implemented and procured from the market, and anticipated trends in their evolution.
- Open API Program — a set of standard REST based interfaces enabling rapid and flexible integration among operations and management systems.
