TM Forum and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently signed a liaison agreement to provide value for the members of each organization by connecting the OGC’s location standards framework and industry consensus process to TM Forum’s core competency programs, vertical industry initiatives, and Frameworx standards and best practices, which have been adopted by four out of five global service providers.
Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium, explained, “Location and the communications infrastructure are linked in emergency management, cyber security, Building Information Models, transportation and many other domains. Given this reality, there are many areas in which TM Forum and the OGC can work together to advance our respective missions. Through this partnership we will seek to collaboratively advance standards-based best practices to further the location enablement of digital services to serve a wide range of stakeholders. Near term, we have many common interests and domain focus areas such as eHealth, the Smart Grid and Smart Cities, We look forward to working with TM Forum in all of these areas.”
“With the digital economy growing at a staggering rate, this partnership is really about creating value for both of our organizations’ members by working together on the development and integration of location standards,” said Craig Bachmann, director, industry initiatives, TM Forum. “As we invest in smart grid, M2M and digital health initiatives, integrating location standards into Frameworx has become critical to our success.”