Pipeline Publishing, Volume 4, Issue 11

	This Month's Issue:
	Confronting Fraud and Malice

Management on the Mediterranean:
Management World 2008

By Tim Young

It's almost time, once again, for the best and brightest of the OSS world to head for the South of France for a few days in the warm Mediterranean sun. Don't pity them too much, however, because it isn't all good food and lounging by the sea and other such boring distractions. There's also plenty of compelling conversation going on about the future of telecommunications.

The TM Forum's annual Management World is taking place in Nice May 18-22. The event, like last November's Management World in Dallas, is sporting a new name and a slightly expanded focus that includes plenty of attention to the changing world of content. You can read more about the event in TM Forum President Keith Willetts's piece in this month's issue, but for now let's take a moment to focus on a few of the vendors exhibiting at the event and what they have to offer the telecommunications world.

These are a few of the companies who will be gracing the expo floor at the Nice Acropolis, and their responses to a few questions from Pipeline.

Progress Software:
What do you plan on exhibiting in Nice?

We recently released Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI), Version 8.3. Used by Communication Service Providers worldwide, DataXtend SI reduces the time and cost required to integrate OSS (Operational Support Systems) and BSS (Business Support Systems) in order to

The TM Forum's annual Management World is taking place in Nice May 18-22. The event, like last November's Management World in Dallas, is sporting a new name and a slightly expanded focus that includes plenty of attention to the changing world of content.

and distributed data with change data capture (CDC) functionality, which determines when data has changed in a database.

Why take part in the Expo; and What makes this show a "must-attend"?

Progress’ position is that for SOA to be successful, you need to have data interoperability. And we maintain that the best way to achieve true data interoperability is through the use of a common model, which for CSPs is typically the TM Forum’s Shared Information/Data (SID) model, now known as

support the delivery of new service offerings. DataXtend SI addresses the challenge of data interoperability in environments based on service-oriented architectures (SOA). It brings the same agility to data that SOA does to processes, by using a common model to mediate the differences between the data models of applications and services.

The new release includes features that enable Communication Service Providers to more effectively synchronize their disparate

the TM Forum Information Framework. DataXtend SI is ready out-of-the box to support the SID.

We’ve done a lot of work over the past year promoting the SID along with DataXtend and that makes the Expo a “must-attend” for us. Progress is also sponsoring the third book in a series of books published by TM Forum that describes how to adopt and apply the TM

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