Do you know where to target your transformation and IT investments to generate the most value for your organization?
Are you looking for a structured approach for determining the right set of capabilities to invest in to drive your company’s vision and strategy?
Do you need to rationalize your IT portfolio to ensure you have the right systems to support the business’s needs while at the same time cutting operational costs?
If so, we can help!
Sparx Services North America brings a complete solution for Capability Based Planning and Portfolio Rationalization, including the leading industry Frameworx content from the TM Forum and the world’s leading architecture platform from Sparx Systems. The experts at SSNA bring decades of consulting and training experience, providing a comprehensive set of products and services tailored to the unique needs of CSPs and other companies in the telecom industry.
Sparx Services North America has done the transformation work for you and compiled the Frameworx content into a set of reference model add-ins that can be easily installed and configured into your company’s Sparx Enterprise Architect repository in a few days with your team being able to use them within a few weeks. With an active maintenance agreement you will receive updated content packs for each new release of Frameworx from the TM forum (currently twice per year).
Digital Maturity Model for the Telecom industry
Business Operating Model
Business Capability Model and Value Streams
Information Framework
Application Architecture Reference Model
Integration Specifications for the Telecom industry
Method for doing Enterprise Architecture
Sparx Services North America offers the full set of TM Forum Frameworx reference models available as content pack add-ins for the Sparx Enterprise Architect platform. Frameworx represents a wealth of knowledge created over many years through the collaboration of thought leaders and practitioners across the Telecom industry.
SSNA has transformed all the Frameworx content into architecture models that are ready to load into Sparx EA so your company can begin leveraging them to support capability-based planning, application portfolio rationalization and other use cases. To transform and load all the Frameworx content using internal staff or contractors, you are easily looking at thousands of hours of effort and waiting months before the models are ready to use… and every time the TM forum releases a new version of Frameworx, you will need to go through the process all over again.
Capability based planning is a technique for planning what business and technical capabilities you need to invest in to realize your organization’s strategy. It utilizes a holistic architectural approach combined with objective analysis of the cost and value indicators that help you directly tie individual projects and investments to the impacts they have on your organization. The output of capability-based planning is a change roadmap to guide implementation projects.
Transformation Initiatives – Digital Transformation and other business change initiatives fundamentally transform your company’s operations. Capability based planning can give you a holistic picture of your future state operations and a roadmap to drive change quickly, safely and effectively so you can realize the value of business transformation faster.
New product development – Do you understand the full extent of changes needed to support a new product or service offering? From manufacturing and logistics to support, sales and regulatory compliance. Capability based planning provides a structured approach for ensuring that your whole company is ready for your new offerings.
Entry into new markets – geographic expansion and growth into new industries can be difficult for organizations that are comfortable operating in a “home market”. Capability based planning can help you discover the changes needed to scale your operations and adapt to the nuances of the broader marketplace.
The experts from Sparx Services North America have been working with IT organizations for decades, leveraging architecture-based approaches to IT planning. Sparx Enterprise Architect and Prolaborate provide the tools for mapping out the complexities of your IT application landscape so you can clearly see what systems you have and where they are being used across your organization. Using the TM Forum Frameworx as reference models, your company can leverage the best practices and insights of others in the industry to rationalize your portfolio against competitors and identify where to target investments in support of your digital maturity journey.
DMM is the part of Frameworx that you use for strategic planning. The DMM content pack for Sparx EA enables you to interact with the DMM content, map it to your company’s architecture, conduct maturity assessments and visualize results for management stakeholders.
eTOM is the business process reference model for the Telecom Industry. The eTOM content pack for Sparx EA enables you to compare and map your operations, IT systems and internal processes to industry standards to drive simplification, efficiency and digital transformation discussions with business and management stakeholders
The business architecture components of Frameworx include a Business Capability model as well as a set of business value streams. The business architecture content pack for Sparx EA provides you the high-level structure for bringing the different parts of Frameworx together and aligning them to your company’s architecture
SID is the part of Frameworx that provides a common vocabulary for information objects and data structures. The SID content pack for Sparx EA helps you to better understand your operational data, business processes and how individual IT systems support your organization. SID can also help you figure out where to get the information you need for agile decision making.
The TAM application framework provides a common language to help you rationalize your IT portfolio. The TAM content pack for Sparx EA provides logical grouping s of applications then describes each application’s functionality.
The TM Forum Open APIs are a set of standardized integration specifications for the Telecom industry. The Open API content pack for Sparx EA includes all of the currently published Open API specs, rest definitions and information needed to implement the APIs in your IT systems and products.
ODA is a method for doing Enterprise Architecture based on TOGAF and a functional architecture in the Telecom industry. The ODA content pack for Sparx EA includes all of the architecture functional blocks, principles and functionalities as defined by the TM Forum.
Sparx content packs for TM Forum Frameworx v19.0 are now available. Contact us for details and pricing