2008 Excellence Award Finalists announced by TM Forum
Today the TM Forum formally announced its finalists for the up-coming Excellence Awards, taking place during TM Forum Management World, in Nice on 19 May. There are seven categories for the awards this year reflecting all aspects of the industry from the service provider, supplier and system integration aspects of the industry.
"The deluge of excellent submissions has been assessed by an independent
panel of judges and the finalists announced", said Martin Creaner,
President of the TM Forum. "And the judges still have a further
adjudication task to consider in the week before the event, when they
will be asked to judge the category of "Best Catalyst Project Management
World Nice." Creaner added that, "the judges' work will not be simple
as there are nine outstanding catalysts showcasing this year at
Management World".
The Winners are to be announced on May 19, at the black tie Awards
Ceremony and Gala Dinner, sponsored by Telcordia, which has quickly
established a reputation as the place to meet the "who's who" of the
industry that are attending the TM Forum Management World.
The finalists for the 2008 TM Forum Excellence Awards are:
Best New Management Product:
Digital Fuel Technologies - ServiceFlow
Intelliden - Intelliden PBCM
NetCracker - NetCracker v7.0 Product Set
Oracle - Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management
Sunrise Telecom - TAMS 7-VoIP
Telcordia - Telcordia Integrated Inventory
Tribold - Tribold Product Portfolio Manager
Velocent - Velocent Systems VSE 2000
Most Innovative Integrated Marketing Campaign:
Nakina Systems - The Nakina "You Need a Network OS"
Reliance - Reliance Power Initial Public Offer
Best Practices - Supplier:
Amdocs - Amdocs Billing StartPack Solution
HP - Solution Consulting Services powered by COSMOS
IBM - eTOM Customization and Real World Application,
NetCracker - Policy Management
Telcordia - Common Language Information Services
Telcordia - Real-Time Charging & Hosted Solution
Best Practices - Service Provider:
Chungwa Telecom - NGOSS Practices
Telekom Austria - PSS 3 years of success
Telstra Corporation - OSS Transformation
Most Innovative Application of Customer Care:
AT&T - AT&T Business Direct Map
AT&T - AT&T Business Direct Mobile Capabilities
Orga Systems/TIM Celular - Virtual Voucher
Telia/CellVision - Telia/CellVision SelfCare
Best Prosspero Implementation:
Vodafone/Ascom - VINE Vodafone International Information Exchange
For further information and ticket and sponsorship availability contact
www.tmforum.org/awards.
