TM Forum Management World 2008

Join us at TM Forum Management World 2008 in Nice to find out how Telcordia is inspiring confidence in the convergence and transformation programs of communications service providers around the globe. With the industry's most comprehensive range of dedicated OSS and Service Delivery products, solutions and expertise, Telcordia is uniquely qualified to help you evolve and compete in the next generation marketplace.

• Innovations
• Customer Perspectives
• Driving Standards
• Expert Insight
• Meet us there!

Innovations

Join us at our stand to see our latest range of award-winning solutions designed to help achieve accelerated growth, enhanced customer experience and faster product lifecycles across a complex supply chain, including:

• Telcordia Integrated Inventory (Excellence Award Finalist!)
• Telcordia Service Management
• Telcordia® Common Language® Information Services (Excellence Award Finalist!)

Customer Perspectives

Find out how Telcordia customers are addressing the challenges of a dynamic, evolving market:

• Wednesday, May 21st
  Case Study: Easynet & Telcordia: Improving Order Assembly and Management for Managed Networks
  Richard Jeffery, Head of BSS, Easynet
  (11:00 am - 12:30 pm T64)
• Thursday, May 22nd
  Presentation: Information Infrastructure – A Critical Success Factor to Industry Growth & Profitability
  Daniele Fracasso, Common Language Lead, Telecom Italia Group
  (11:00 am - 12:30 pm T1112)

Driving Standards

Telcordia is engaged on a wide range of OSS community initiatives, shaping and driving the standards needed to reduce deployment times and provide common solutions to common challenges. Find out more:

Visit us at the Catalyst Showcase – TM Forum's Living Lab
Telcordia is delighted to participate in the TM Forum Catalyst Program, which directly supports efforts to provide practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communication services. Please visit us at the following projects:

• Delivering an Industry Information Infrastructure
  Championed by Telecom Italia
  This project demonstrates how BSS, OSS, Network Element vendors and systems integrators can collaborate to enable service providers to reduce integration costs, improve time to market and improve communications across their own systems and organizations as well as with trading partners by adopting the SID model.
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• Content Encounter Phase II --
  Monetizing Services for the Digital Media Market
  Championed by AT&T, BT, China Unicom and Chunghwa Telecom
  Content Encounter is TM Forum's Interactive Digital Media and Communications Village at Management World. It includes a hands-on demonstration that shows the critical elements necessary for monetizing digital media services plus a development environment for working on the critical standards that support commercializing these types of services. Attendees get to see and interact with real services throughout the content lifecycle – from creation to consumption. Phase II builds upon the success of the first phase of this project. It takes a more in-depth look at content metadata, advertising services, a converged services catalog, operational assurance, revenue management and content service quality management using numerous TM Forum initiatives.
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• Delivering Device User Support
  Championed by Orange Netherlands
  This catalyst will demonstrate how to enable the sharing of vital support information between service providers, CE vendors, retailers and end users so that customer service and support for connected home and end users of the digital lifestyle can be provided on demand through positive, minimal touch, encounters.
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Expert Insight

See industry thought leadership in action, as Telcordia experts address the conference:

Tuesday, May 20th:

• Presentation: Content Meets Reality: Delivery, Commercial and Operational Challenges to Building a Successful Content Business
  Grant Lenahan, Vice President & Strategist, Service Delivery Solutions
  (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm T13)

Wednesday, May 21st:

• Case Study: Easynet & Telcordia: Improving Order Assembly and Management for Managed Networks
  Elaine Haher, Director of Product Management, Fulfillment Solutions, Global Solutions
  (11:00 am - 12:30 pm T64)
• Presentation: Putting Your Customer at the Heart of Your Service Using Interactive Service Delivery
  Pat McCarthy, Vice President, Service Delivery Solutions
  (11:00 am - 12:30 pm T64)
• Panel: SDF & the Lego World of Business: Creating New Value for Customers by Composing & Managing Islands of Services from Collaborative Providers
  Grant Lenahan, Vice President & Strategist, Service Delivery Solutions
  (2:00 pm - 3:30 pm T86)
• Forumville Presentation: Optimizing Performance with COMMON LANGUAGE® Information Services
  Allen Seidman, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Common Language
  (4:30 pm)

Thursday, May 22nd:

• Presentation: Content Encounter 2: New Challenges for Charging and Billing
  Graham Cobb, Director, Service Delivery Solutions
  (9:00 am T91)
• Panel: Hot Topics in End-User Device Management
  Bill Stanley, Executive Director, Common Language
  (11:00 am T1011)
• Presentation: Information Infrastructure – A Critical Success Factor to Industry Growth & Profitability
  Allen Seidman, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, Common Language
  (11:00 am - 12:30 pm T1112)

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Telcordia Named a Finalist for Excellence Awards

Telcordia is delighted to be a finalist for the TM Forum's 2008 Excellence Award in the following categories:

• Best New Management Product (Telcordia Integrated Inventory)
• Best Practices - Supplier (Telcordia® Common Language® Information Services, Telcordia® Real-Time Charging and Hosted Solutions)