TM Forum, the industry association driving digital business transformation through collaboration, announced that Amdocs, Netcracker Technologies, Nokia and Oracle Communications are adopting the collaboratively developed Open Digital Architecture. This new approach to building software to run service provider businesses creates a market for innovative, standardized and interoperable software components, enabling the industry to invest in IT for new and differentiated services instead of customization and integration.
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Amdocs, Netcracker, Nokia and Oracle Communications are adopting TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture. This approach to software dev creates a market for standardized components and lets CSPs invest in IT for innovation vs. maintenance
BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Telenor are also among 11 new signatories to TM Forum’s Open API and Open Digital Architecture Manifesto.
Along with Chunghwa Telecom, Vidéotron and Globetom, 30 organizations are now committed to transforming from legacy OSS/BSS to cloud-native software components and replacing traditional IT architectures with the Open Digital Architecture’s standardized plug-and-play components, data model and Open APIs.
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This commitment opens the pathway to a new software model and rapid innovation for the industry as described in a new white paper authored by TM Forum members and published today. (Read: “A Future Vision for the Software Market the Telecom Industry Needs to Survive and Thrive.”)
Investing in innovation, not integration
According to a recent TM Forum report “Time to Kill the RFP?,” CSPs spend about $90 billion each year on IT. On top of that, the process of selecting and procuring software alone costs the industry approximately $1 billion per year.
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