At BPM-X we receive inquiries from organizations round the globe using tools from different vendors for enterprise architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA) or business process management systems (BPMS). Even if a BPM platform vendor like TIBCO offers the complete stack of BPM tools, additional tools come into the game for e.g. for process mapping using SPARX Enterprise Architect or Microsoft Visio® with the need to interchange process model data.

Sparx Systems™ Enterprise Architect is a widely used tool for process mapping and modeling just as HP ALM is the leading tool in the market for test management. Combining both tools proves the formula 1 + 1 = 3 to be true: benefit from both the added value of leveraging business process models for requirements management and generating model-based test cases.

Large organizations are really challenged with data governance and the need to deal with information silos. Specialized enterprise management applications from different domains like enterprise architecture (EA), business process management (BPM), governance risk and compliance (GRC), project portfolio management (PPM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) do not make life easier when it comes down to leverage data from all these sources. Usually, the control and exchange of data fails by misinterpretation and weak implementations of interchange specification standards. So basically every organization has to reinvent the wheel by developing and customizing point-to-point interfaces.

*TM Forum Frameworx EA 17.5 now available at the shop!*

TM Forum Frameworx is an enterprise architecture framework for telecom and digital service provider industries, it embraces eTOM, TAM, and SID. TM Forum is the organization that owns the intellectual property on Frameworx and continuously maintains its contents. TransWare AG, as a member and partner of TM Forum, has made Frameworx accessible to the leading modeling tool Sparx Systems™ Enterprise Architect (EA). Our product TM Forum Frameworx for Enterprise Architect is two things: A one-to-one translation of the Frameworx source to EA and a Frameworx add-in for EA. The Frameworx EA model currently includes the meta-data-rich diagram and element contents of eTOM, TAM, and partly SID. TM Forum members can order TM Forum Frameworx for Enterprise Architect here. All you need is EA as of version 12 or higher.

Accelerated streamlining and harmonization of telcos’ enterprise and business architecture.

CRESWICK, AUSTRALIA - KUSEL, GERMANY, April 28, 2018

Leading lifecycle modeling platform developer, Sparx Systems, together with the TransWare AG, has announced the public release of the TM Forum Frameworx reference model, supported via the Pro Cloud Server collaboration platform and MDG technology within Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect - an agile collaboration solution for the global telecommunication industry and enterprise architects community.

*Now available at the shop!*

TM Forum Frameworx is a suite of best practices and standards that provides the blueprint for efficient telco business operations. Its intellectual property is owned and the content managed by TM Forum. Frameworx embraces the eTOM, SID and TAM frameworks and thus enables to assess and optimize performance using a proven service-oriented approach to operations, integration and business.

This webinar demonstrates the TransWare BPM-X ® solution generating test-cases and requirements coverage directly from your system documentation like business architecture, blueprints or process flows. The solution works with your installed tool landscape, modeling with tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, ARIS, Visual Studio, Eclipse, System Architect, ProVision, Casewise and testing with HP ALM, JIRA, Zephyr, MS TFS, Excel and many others collaborate in a connected SDLC.  

*Now available in the shop!*

TM Forum Frameworx is an enterprise architecture framework (EAF) for the telecom and digital service provider industries. It embraces the sub-frameworks of eTOM, TAM, and SID. TM Forum is the organization that owns the intellectual property on Frameworx and continuously maintains its contents. TransWare AG, as a member and partner of TM Forum as well as a technical partner of Sparx Systems Pty Ltd, has made Frameworx accessible to the leading EA/BPM modeling tool Sparx Systems™ Enterprise Architect (SparxEA). The product TM Forum Frameworx for Enterprise Architect comprises the sub-frameworks of eTOM and TAM (SID will follow in a later version).