TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010: Soaring Interest Attracts Fierce Competition

53 nominees confirmed to battle for this year’s premier communications industry awards

MORRISTOWN, NJ—March 10, 2010 – Interest in TM Forum’s Excellence Awards 2010 has soared to an all time high it was announced today, as a record 53 official nominees hit the judging slate.  TM Forum’s Excellence Awards are regarded as the most prestigious awards of their kind, recognizing global leadership, innovation and excellence, whilst giving significance to the achievements of companies within the communications industry.

Attracting nominations from Communications Service Providers, suppliers and systems integrators,  the TM Forum Excellence Awards are widely recognized as truly impartial awards for the communications industry.

This year’s awards include four new best practice categories:

• TM Forum Industry Leadership Award – to be awarded to the company demonstrating leadership, dedication and commitment to the Forum's industry collaboration activities, and overall progress in the industry.
• TM Forum Operational Excellence Award - to be awarded to the Communications Service Provider demonstrating the most innovative and effective use of TM Forum Solution Frameworks to deliver tangible cost reduction, efficiency improvement and operational agility.
• TM Forum Solution Excellence Award – to be awarded to the supplier or system integrator demonstrating the most innovative and effective use of TM Forum Solution Frameworks to deliver tangible cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
• TM Forum Business Innovation Award - to be awarded to the Communications Service Provider demonstrating the most innovative and successful new service or business model.

As interest in the awards soar competition will be fierce, with 10 entries for the Industry Leadership category, 11 for the Operational Excellence category, 26 for the Solution Excellence category and 8 for the new Business Innovation category

An independent panel of highly-respected industry experts will review the list and narrow it down to six finalists in each category. The winners for certain categories will be decided through an open vote by the 750 TM Forum member companies, and announced to an audience of more than 2,500 senior executives from the industry at the Forum's flagship Management World 2010 conference on the morning of Tuesday, May 18, 2010.

The Official Nominees for the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010 are:

Quotes:

“The quality and quantity of this year’s nominations illustrate growing confidence within the industry,” said Nik Willetts, CMO, TM Forum. “This year’s  nominations show a significant step change in innovation by service providers, increasingly in partnership with their suppliers. TM Forum standards are critical to the success of these projects, offering a platform for success.”

Resources:
• Learn more about TM Forum’s Excellence Awards 2010.
• Management World 2010, keynote and speaker details, as well as information surrounding  training courses available at the event are available at http://www.tmforum.org/mw2010
• Find out more about TM Forum's other events and conferences.
• Subscribe to TM Forum’s press releases RSS feed and newsletters.
• Press and analysts are invited to contact Geoff Devlin to apply for free press access to the event if appropriate

About TM Forum:

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With more than 700 corporate members in 195 countries, TM Forum is the world’s leading industry association focused on enabling best-in-class IT for service providers in the communications, media and cloud service markets. The Forum provides business-critical industry standards and expertise to enable the creation, delivery and monetization of digital services.

TM Forum brings together the world’s largest communications, technology and media companies, providing an innovative, industry-leading  approach to collaborative R&D, along with wide range of support services including benchmarking, training and certification. The Forum produces the renowned international Management World conference series, as well as thought-leading industry research and publications.

Press Contacts:

TM Forum
Geoff Devlin
PR Director
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+44 (0)7894 300 280

United States Media Contact
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Nate Hubbell
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TM Forum Solution Excellence Award	TM Forum Industry Leadership Award
Alcatel-Lucent	BSM impact Limited
cVidya Networks	cVidya Networks
generationE Technologies	IBM
INFONOVA GmbH	NetCracker Technologies Corp.
Tata Consultancy Services	Qwest Communictions
IBM	Telcordia Technologies
Subex Ltd.	AMDOCS Inc.
Intelliden, Inc.	DoD
BI Telecom	FROX Communication
Centina Systems	The OpenNMS Group, Inc
Cisco	Operational Excellence Award
Clarity	China Mobile Communications Corporation
Comarch SA	China Unicom have two entries for this category
ConceptWave Software Inc.	Magyar Telekom
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	Saudi Telecommunications Company
IBM Corporation	Slovak Telekom
Kabira Technologies	Tata Communications
Microsoft Corporation	Telekom Slovenije
Telcordia Technologies	Telefónica O2UK Limited
NetCracker Technology Corp.	Vodafone D2 GmbH
Netformx, Inc.	TM Forum Business Innovation Award
Redknee	BT have two entries for this category
Systems Mechanics Ltd.	China Unicom
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.	IBM
	Microsoft Corporation
	Qwest Communications
	Tata Consultancy Services
	Telefonica Latin America & Huawei Technologies