The TeleManagement Forum on Tuesday named the recipients of its Excellence Awards, presented at a black-tie gala in Nice, France.
The awards recognize leaders in operational excellence and companies approaching bill and OSS in new ways.
The TM Forum Excellence Awards Winners for 2008:
Best New Management Product
Digital Fuel Technologies – ServiceFlow
Honorable mention – Intelliden - Intelliden PBCM
Most Innovative Integrated Marketing Campaign
Joint Winners
Reliance – Reliance Power Initial Public Offer;
and Nakina Systems – The Nakina "You Need a Network OS"
Best Practices – Supplier
IBM – eTOM Customization and Real World Application
Best Practices – Service Provider
Telstra Corporation Ltd – OSS transformation
Honorable mention – Telekom Austria – PSS-strategy – three years of success
Most Innovative Application of Customer Care
Orga Systems/TIM Cellular – Virtual Voucher
Best Prosspero Implementation
Vodafone/Ascom – VINE Vodafone International Information Exchange
2008 Best Catalyst Management World Nice
One Stop FMC Services Catalyst (which involved Amdocs, Chungwa Telecom, Microsoft, NSN Taiwan, Tata Consultancy and Telus Telecom)
Telecom Italia received an “Exceptional Contributing Company Award” for its work developing the business process framework and taking it to the ITU-T as an industry standard.
The “Distinguished Fellow of the Forum” awards were presented to Nigel Davis of Nortel, Hishashi Tada, recently retired from NEC; and Jenny Huang, OSS strategic standards manager of AT&T Inc.
