The best practices and standards found in TM Forum Frameworx enable effective Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), taking the pain out of service creation and management, automating the lifecycle using sophisticated product and service catalogs, and providing a clear view of the associated business processes and interfaces.
Business Outcomes
This program transforms ad hoc approaches to managing product and service lifecycles into systematic, repeatable and consistent processes that organize cooperating roles and create accurate and up-to-date catalogs of product definitions.
Forum contribution and value
- Provide best practices for PLM with supporting examples
- Definition of product lifecycle processes and lifecycle states
- Interfaces and models for product catalogs and synchronization, where catalogs are distributed, replicated or segmented
Supporting our members
Best Practices
Access the standards and best practices, guides and toolkits created by our members for the release Frameworx 15.5.
Outlines all of the elements needed to define an interface between catalogs with 28 use cases that cover operations which take place between catalogs.
A Quick Start Pack containing a blueprint of business processes utilized to define and roll out a new service.
An outline of all aspects of the processes for taking on a new customer, capturing their order, ensuring the delivery of that order and completing payment.
Explores the rationale for PLM in the digital industry, the maturity of the frameworks available and how organizations might go about deploying PLM.
A quick start pack with end-to-end process flows that are relevant for launching cloud products (or products enabled by cloud services) to the market and enabling new cloud business models.


