Catalyst ProgramAction Week Feb 2015

Catalyst Program

Service Providers

PartnersVendors

Define the problem to be solved

Work together to develop a solution

Rapid, pragmatic, re-usable solution

Suppliers

4 to 6 months

Catalyst Program

Relevant

TM Forum Frameworx based solutionsCurrent problemsService Providers and vendors working together

Strategic

Aligned with Forum’s strategic planTight requirements, closely mentored

Timely

4 month timelineAllows SPs to see results quicklyMarketing exposure for participants

Catalyst Program

Input•Proposals based on market needs •Business requirementsProcess

•Catalyst selection•Development•Live demonstration of results

Outcome

Innovation Catalyst

Exploratory Project

Gaining deeper understanding of a

particular space

Potential output: Demonstration, White Paper, Set of Requirements,

new Collaborative Project, Contribution to an existing

Collaborative Project

R&D Catalyst & Collaboration Projects

Catalyst Project Collaboration Project

Collaborative Asset

Feedback / Change Request

TM Forum Live

Min 4 Participant Companies

€5000 Investment – Free for Service

Providers

Demo Pod

Team Complimentary

Passes

Why participate?Service Provider Champions

Virtual R&D

Compress requirements (RFx) processes

Learn how selected vendors work together

Demonstrate market leadership

Drive standards forward rapidly

MarketingCollaborative Marketing

- Pre & Post Event- Inform blogs- Press Releases

Future

Investigating future opportunities for repeat presentation at other events

TM Forum Live Catalyst Schedule

Join Catalyst Close Feb

27th

Demo Review w/

SAS April 16

Demo at Live June 1 -3

Criteria for CatalystMin

1 Service

Provider

4 Participant

Companies

Catalyst

Team€5000Free to

participate

All participants are provided with passes to event for staffing booth & partners

To Join a Catalyst project see Jean Pierre, jdufresne@tmforum.org

Catalyst Team RolesProject Team Lead

•Ensure project is developed in line with TM Forum IPR policy•Encourage all participants to take an active role in the project and design output without bias towards any member company•Lead the design, planning and execution validation activities•Ensure sponsor and mentor are consulted on direction of catalyst

Mentor

•Aid the team to maintain focus on delivery•Act as a source of executive level expertise for the team•Join project calls to assist with blockages•Seek out expert resource to help as required•Help drive awareness of the project team work

Sponsor

•Articulate the Industry User Story•Act as a Champion for the team•Review progress at weekly intervals to ensure relevance•Champion final deliverables at Nice•Drive Adoption in own organization by championing deliverables as beta versions of solutions to be developed

Participant

•Develop collaborative solutions in accordance with the developed charter and inline with Collaboration process•Participate actively in team working meetings / sessions•Complete tasks as agreed with the team

Technical Lead

•Ensure alignment between catalyst project and respective collaboration project•Ensure appropriate application of all relevant best practices and standards into catalyst project•Provide technical leadership and guidance to ensure quality demonstration of integrated working solution•Ensure learnings and changes to Forum assets are captured and provided back to Collaborative team

Project Manager

•Manage key deliverables within the catalyst project•Ensure on time delivery of all technical and marketing deliverables•Ensure outputs are reviewed by relevant SMEs & collaborative teams•Ensure interdependencies across catalyst projects and with collaboration teams are managed

Marketing/Product Lead

•Ensure all marketing deliverables are produced on time and to an appropriate marketing standard•Ensure catalyst executes its own marketing activities pre & post event leveraging participant company marketing departments•Ensure presentations and demonstrations are easily understood by different audiences and tailored appropriately

Subject Matter Expert

•Provide guidance on appropriate application of Forum assets•Provide guidance on design of demonstration

If I am a Catalyst Leader, where should I go for Help?

Collaboration Sub-Theme Leader

ZOOM TM Forum Program

Management

TM Forum Catalyst Project

Manager

• How do I submit a Charter?• How do I submit marketing

materials?• What will the show floor

look like at Nice?• Have you received my

contract?• I want to submit a PR -

what do I do?

• How should the catalyst support the collaboration program sub-theme?

• How can the catalyst results be used within collaboration?

• How could the catalyst articulate the collaborative work being done?

• How does the catalyst fit into the “bigger picture”?• How can catalysts be marketed leading up to Nice?• Anything beyond and above what the sub-theme

leader can help with?

Theme, Sub-theme and Catalyst Lead Candidates

Theme #1: End-to-end Virtualization Management

Joe Ruffles (Cisco)

Theme #2: Operations Transformation for the

Digital Ecosystem

Michel Valette (Orange)

Theme #3: Virtualization Operational Readiness and

Procurement

Jenny Huang (AT&T)

Foundational Studies

John Strassner (Huawei)

• Achyuth Sathyagiri (TechM)

• Shruti Rawat (AT&T) • Jenny Huang (AT&T)Dan Dutta (AT&T)

• Information Model: Jean-Marie Calmel (Oracle)

• Policy Based Management:John Strassner (Huawei)

• Security:John Strassner (Huawei)

• API Requirements:TBD

• Future OSS ArchitecturesTanja de Groot (ALU)Nigel Davis (Ciena)

• OrchestrationJohn Strassner (Huawei)

• Joe Ruffles (Cisco) • Andrei Shekalin (Netcracker)

• Tayeb Benmeriem (Orange)

• Jason Boswell (Symantec)

• Sanjay Saxena (Huawei)• Or Ericsson?

• Alistair Scott (JDSU)

Maximizing Profitability

• Ravi V (Ericsson)

Multi-Cloud NFV/SDN

• Bob Combs (Microsoft)

Model-Driven Orchestr.

• Miles Gong (Huawei)

The Third Network

• JeanMarie Calmel (Oracle)

Service Nw Transform.

• Ruinan Sun (Huawei)

Dynamic API/CloudNFV

• Jonathan S (Dgit)

Ops Transf. vCPE

• Shruti Rawat (AT&T)

Recover, Resolve

• Achyuth S (TechM)

Security Orchestration

• Jason Boswell (Symantec)

Smart City

• Gary Bruce (BT)

Closing the Loop

• Yuval Stein (Teoco)

…NFV Focused Proof of Concepts Drive the Themes1

Theme #1: End-to-end Virtualization Management

Theme #2: Operations Transformation for the

Digital Ecosystem

Theme #3: Virtualization Operational Readiness

and Procurement

Foundational Studies

• “Maximizing Profitability with NFV Orchestration” (one down?)

• “Multi-Cloud NFV/SDN Service Orchestration”

• “Recover First, Resolve Next”

• “Dynamic APIs for Agile Markets/CloudNFV3.0”

• “Service Nw Transformation based on NFV”

• “Operations Transformation and Simplification enabled by vCPE”

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• “Security Orchestration for NFV/Dynamic Service Chaining SaaS”

• “Dynamic APIs for Agile Markets/CloudNFV3.0”

• “The Third Network”

• “Maximizing Profitability with NFV Orchestration”

• Multi-Cloud NFV/SDN Service Orchestration”

• Cloud NFV 3.0

• “Service Network Transformation based on NFV”

• “Maximizing Profitability with NFV Orchestration”

• Dynamic APIs for Agile Markets/CloudNFV3.0”

• “Security Orchestration for NFV/Dynamic Service Chaining SaaS”

• “The Third Network”• “Digital Operations: Model-

Driven Service Orchestration for Service Lifecycle Automation”

• “Operations Transformation and Simplification enabled by vCPE”

Frameworks

N.A.

1Mappings need to be reviewed after Catalyst acceptance announcement

Ehealth Example of mapping between Collaborative Assets & Catalyst Project

DSRA information

Development

Service Deployment

Service Composition/Orchestration Management

Exposure

Consumption

Implementation

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Channels / Marketplace / Store

Service Domain(Public Cloud)

Service Domain(IaaS / PaaS)

Service Domain(Private Cloud)

Service Domain(CaaS / NaaS)

CaaS: Communication as a Service; Iaas: Infrastructure as a Service;NaaS: Network as a Service; PaaS: Platform as a Service

Any platform that intends to form part of future digital ecosystems should implement both the best practices and support some new “platform services”. See the list on the Catalyst Positioning versus DSRA slide, with more information available in:• Introductory Guide to the DSRA IG1126• DSRA Guide

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Digital Health Catalyst Positioning versus DSRA

Platform Service Name In scope (Y/N)

Comment

Federated Identity Mgmt Y Ehealth catalyst addresses Secure authentication to enable access to medical data for nurses/patients

Federated Profile Mgmt N Ehealth catalyst doesn’t cover functions focused on unified access to data

Analytics Y Ehealth catalyst addresses Device independent data collection & processing

Discovery N Discovery for API change management is completed via the PLM process via notification to the purchaser of the API and the deprecation of old api and use of new api in the “system”; this function is not currently highlighted in the eHealth catalyst

Configuration & Activation Partial Ehealth catalyst manages multi party order orchestration. The configuration for each individual service and user is handled. The Activation system was not included in the eHealth catalyst.

Assurance & Traceability N SLAs were provided in the catalog model but no assurance, performance or traceability were performed on the services once in use.

Charging N Ehealth catalyst doesn’t cover functions focused on charging of products and services. Planned for Nice 2015.

Invoicing N Ehealth catalyst doesn’t cover functions focused on invoicing of products and services. Planned for Nice 2015.

Catalog Lifecycle Mgmt & Federation

Y Ehealth catalyst addresses catalog driven operations for both service management and real time APIs

Onboarding Y Ehealth catalyst addresses Partner Onboarding – agreements and content

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TM Forum Live! 2015 Catalyst ScheduleDue: Description of Catalyst Deliverable

9-Feb-15 TM Forum Action Week Lisbon 2015 – Attend and Project Kick Off

13-Feb-15 End of Action Week: Set Schedule for Regular Meetings

19-Feb-15 Catalyst Contracts Issued

20-Feb-15 First Web Copy Submitted

23-Feb-15 Define specific team roles (marketing, technical lead. Etc…)

27-Feb-15 Last Chance for Additional Participants to Join

16-Mar-15 For Each Champion and Participant Company: 100-word Company Description and Logo in EPS Format for Show Guide

30-Mar-15 All Team Members registered to online TM Forum Catalyst Community

30-Mar-15 Return Signed Catalysts Contracts of Participation for maximum exposure

9-Apr-15 Project Charter Submission and IPR Mode Declaration

16-Apr-15 Demonstration Review with SAS

11-May-15 Review Booth Floorplan, Confirmation of IT Technical Requirements, In/Out Dates, Theater Schedule

May TM Forum Press Release on Catalyst Program

14-May-15 Power Point Booth Demo - Draft

25-May-15 Virtual Show Bag Content: Project Datasheet, Company Datasheet or Links

29-May-15

Confirmation of Format of Project Output (IIS, Specifications, Interfaces, Models, Frameworks, Reference Code, Whitepapers, Lessons Learned, Case Studies, Best Practices, Recommendations to other teams) Start Documentation of Results

29-May-15 Theater Presentation Due - else forfeit slot

1-Jun-15 Attendance at TM Forum Live! 2015

16-July-15 Catalyst Team Results posted as formal Contribution to Catalyst Community Workspace

Marketing Opportunities

• Multiple marketing opportunities:– Interviews– Blogs– Webinars– Videos– Social Media

• Remarket to your customers/partners

Contact Jean-Pierre or Charlotte

Lewis here at Action Week

Interested in Joining a Catalyst Project?

• Please see me throughout the week or contact me at jdufresne@tmforum.org

• View of all catalysts for TM Forum Live:• http://www.tmforum.org/FutureCatalysts/15727/home.html