Open Digital Architecture finally gathers momentum in Copenhagen
Axiata, Reliance Jio and Vodafone are the first operators to achieve the status of TM Forum’s Running on ODA at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen. The Forum’s Open Digital Architecture has been drawn up over several years by more than 350 of TM Forum’s member companies. The Forum describes it as “an industry-agreed set of reusable software building blocks for creating, managing, and securing any digital service”.
Kiran Thomas, CEO, Jio Platforms, said in a statement, “With open components and well-defined APIs to interconnect them, ODA has allowed Jio to transform its application landscape into more modern, microservices-driven and cloud-native. This makes us more agile and enables us to deliver value to our customers even faster.”
The approach is also inherent in the company productising its platform-based applications for use by other enterprises, across many sectors, in their digitalisation journeys.
Vodafone, one of the original proponents of the Forum’s Open APIs which are a key part of the ODA, uses the APIs and ODA to improve. customer experiences, according to its Chief Digital and Information Officer, Scott Petty: “At Vodafone, we’ve adopted an agile, API-first and data-driven approach to give our customers the best experience possible across multiple channels – app, online, retail – as well as helping them on their own digital journeys. Open Digital Architecture is behind this digital drive.”
Anthony Rodrigo, Group Chief Information Officer, Axiata Group, explained, “Using Open APIs and ODA has enabled Axiata not only to capitalize on our growth ambition by reusing software applications across our group of operating companies, but also to develop new ways to monetize our IT and network capabilities by opening them to partners.”
Directing progress
TM Forum is showing a pilot of its pilot ODA Component Directory at Digital Transformation World, which takes place this week in Copenhagen. The Directory includes the 40+ software providers that have mapped their products to the ODA Component architecture.
The pilot includes products and solutions from: 6d Technologies; alvatross by SATEC; Amdocs; Aria Systems; AsiaInfo Technologies; AwareX; Axiata Digital Labs; Beyond Now; BMC Software; Cerillion; Comarch; CSG; Ericsson; ETIYA; Hansen; Huawei; i2i Systems; IBM; Incognito; Inspur; Intraway; Jio Platforms; Juniper; Marand Software; MATRIXX Software; Mavenir Systems; Microsoft; Netcracker; Nokia; Optiva; Oracle; Pegasystems; Persistent Systems; Salesforce; SAS Institute; ServiceNow; SigScale; Sterlite Technologies; Subex; Tata Consultancy Services; Tecnotree; TEOCO; Torry Harris Integration Solutions; and Whale Cloud.