| | Billing World and OSS Today Magazine - eTOM Gains Momentum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | “eTOM defines which processes are important to customer acquisition, such as fulfilling an order or conducting quality assurance—or, in the case of billing, the process for collecting CDRs or collecting on bad debts,” says Martin Creaner, CTO of the TMF, explaining that each process has multiple levels. |
 | | Although eTOM is the “business map” for NGOSS, it has standalone value as carriers seek to define relationships among elements of their back-office systems. |
 | | He likens eTOM to musical notes and ITIL to the symphony that results from combining the notes in an optimal fashion. |
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