TMF Names Excellence Awards Recipients

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.