Awards for innovative prototype products
& services for communication service providers
BANGALORE, India,
July 27, 2017
/CNW/ - Infosys, a global leader in consulting,
technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today
announced it participated in six of the 32 Catalysts
at TM Forum Live - winning
three of the seven Catalyst Awards at the annual flagship
communications industry event, held in Nice, France. The Awards recognized Infosys'
open innovation to co-create commercially viable prototypes of new
digital services and business models.
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The three winning Catalysts:
A platform for IoT and Anything as a
Service: This Catalyst focused on how
operators can attract ecosystem partners to co-create new digital
services beyond connectivity through the platform business model.
Infosys worked with Vodafone and was recognized for its outstanding
performance. The focus was on delivering agility, experience and
efficiency to communication service providers and exposing TM Forum
Open APIs to third party developers to create new revenue streams
enabled by network slicing, edge computing and a service
marketplace.
"This Catalyst has brought several leading industry players
together to show how platform business models together with
orchestration and closed-loop assurance can deliver innovative new
services and new revenue streams to our industry," said Dr.
Lester Thomas,
Chief Systems Architect, Vodafone
Group. "Infosys played an invaluable role in
the overall architecture, and in particular, defining the Open APIs
and contributing enhancements to the Open API programme."
Joint Agile
Delivery - Phase
II: In this Catalyst, Infosys was recognized for
'Outstanding Use' of TM Forum
Assets and worked with AT&T, Orange,
Telecom Italia. This Catalyst has been recognized for continuing
efforts towards contributing APIs and processes to TM Forum and has
a vision for a 'standardized and platform-based' approach to
developing and delivering world-class software that capitalizes on
cross-organizational synergies to dramatically improve time to
market, quality and cost.
"Seamless Joint Agile Delivery across complex partner ecosystem
is going to be key for rapid service innovation, delivery and
operations. Infosys, along with other major industry partners,
collaborated on this catalyst to provide a standardized and
platform based approach for service validation and service
assurance for Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and associated
Network Services from different suppliers,"
said Michel Valette, Tests
and Diagnostics Domain Manager, Orange & Stream Leader,
Operations Centre of the Future, TM Forum. "Infosys leveraged
their rich capabilities on machine learning and artificial
intelligence to provide closed loop adaptive service assurance for
dynamic network services coming from different partners."
Logical Factory: Virtualizing Manufacturing for Agility:
This Catalyst, developed with BT, Telecom Italia and TWI, built on
a prior award-winning Catalyst - the Smart Industrial
Manufacturing: Robots as a Service, which demonstrated the use of
TMF's Open-APIs in the Industrial Internet-of-Things domain to
order and configure Robots as a Service. In this enhanced version,
the scope was expanded to the entire manufacturing and maintenance
process lifecycle. TM Forum recognized this Catalyst project in the
category for 'Outstanding Ecosystem
Design' using CurateFx - TM Forum's
digital ecosystem design and management SaaS solution.
"We thank Infosys for being a key participant in our recent
'Logical Factory - Virtualizing Manufacturing for Agility' catalyst
project which was demonstrated at the TM Forum Live! 2017. Infosys'
contribution in this project enabled us to evolve in our approach
to utilize innovative thinking around Industry 4.0, IoT, and
connectivity to overcome current challenges in various
manufacturing industries. Infosys' commendable effort and focus in
developing the concept played a key part in the team winning the
'Outstanding Ecosystem Design Using CurateFx',"
said Darren Williams,
Welding Systems Lead, TWI.
TMF Catalysts are quick, member-driven, proof-of-concept
projects which leverage TM Forum's best practices and standards,
connect service providers, technology suppliers, and global
enterprises to create innovative solutions that address industry
challenges. More than 100 member companies participated in the 2017
Catalyst projects which spanned across Open APIs, SDN & NFV,
digital health, data monetization, customer experience management,
smart cities, the Internet of Everything among others.
Nik Willets, Chief Executive
Officer, TM Forum said, "Infosys has made
significant investments to enhance its knowledge base in new and
emerging technologies. Winning three awards for Catalyst projects
proves that Infosys is a knowledge partner capable of defining
next-generation products and services for communication service
providers. The company is also an early adopter of TM Forum's Open
API initiative."
Mr. Rajesh Krishnamurthy,
President and Head of Energy, Utilities, Telecommunications and
Services, Infosys said, "We are focusing on
developing new technologies and opening new revenue streams for
CSPs. We embarked on this journey by being the first systems
integrator to sign up for TM Forum's Open API initiative. Our
technology focus and collaboration with like-minded partners is
accelerating innovation and delivering results. The three awards
for catalyst projects at TM Forum Live! demonstrate our commitment
to delivering innovative products and services to our clients."
About Infosys Ltd.
Infosys is a global leader in technology services and
consulting. We enable clients in 45 countries to create and execute
strategies for their digital transformation. From engineering to
application development, knowledge management and business process
management, we help our clients find the right problems to solve,
and to solve these effectively. Our team of 198,000+
innovators, across the globe, is differentiated by the imagination,
knowledge and experience, across industries and technologies that
we bring to every project we undertake.
Visit http://www.infosys.com to
see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise thrive in the
digital age.
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