2008 Excellence Award Finalists announced by TM Forum

Morristown, NJ – 28 April 2008 – 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.

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About the TM Forum

With nearly 700 members in 71 countries, the TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association focused on management of information, communications and entertainment services. The Forum provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the way that services are created, delivered, assured and charged. Members include the majority of the world’s service providers, network operators, software suppliers, equipment suppliers and systems integrators.

The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through its initiatives to help providers move to 21st century ‘lean’ processes, the Forum helps its members automate business processes by deploying operational systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. The organization provides industry benchmarks, guidebooks, process and software frameworks and specific ‘plug and play’ standards. These give service providers the direction and specific roadmaps to achieve much greater business efficiency and operational flexibility.

For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs such as the Prosspero initiative and its Management World conferences, please visit www.tmforum.org