TM Forum Honors Esri and Teammates for Contributions to Tomorrow’s Telecommunications Solutions

Redlands, California — January 7, 2015—Technology giant Esri swept two of three awards at TM Forum’s Digital Disruption December 2014 conference in San Jose, California. Both awards honored contributions to the Internet of Things, a futuristic idea for connecting smart devices to have a positive effect on society.

Photo - TM Forum presents Esri, BaseN, and Infonova
the Most Significant Contribution to Frameworx Award.
From left to right: James Hitchcock (TM Forum), Patrick Huls (Esri),
Dave Twichell (Esri), Anders Viden (BaseN), Vedran Bratic (Infonova),
and Nik Willetts (TM Forum).

“Managing and understanding the interaction of all the connected devices that exist —this is today’s hot telecommunications opportunity and challenge,” Esri telecommunications industry solutions manager Randy Frantz said.

Esri took the Most Innovative Catalyst Award for its Smart City: Empowering Governments, a proof of concept showing how companies can leverage the Internet of Things in upcoming solutions. TM Forum gives the award to teams that best demonstrate an inspirational, high-growth-potential business concept that’s likely to have a positive effect on society. Esri shares this award with its teammate, ISPM.

Smart City empowers governments to collaborate faster with service providers and private enterprises. The proof of concept points to Aguas de São Pedro, a Brazil municipality currently transforming into a smart city.

“We show how organizations could talk to each other under these guidelines,” Esri technical evangelist Patrick Huls said.

Esri also took the Most Significant Contribution to Frameworx Award alongside teammates BaseN and Infonova. TM Forum awards this to the team that best evolves TM Forum’s flagship Frameworx suite, a proven model of best practices and standards for telecommunications companies.

Esri and its team’s winning proof of concept was Smart Energy: Realizing the Digital Handshake. Smart Energy outlines a solution that integrates and digitizes energy management on a smart grid. It demonstrates how to keep the power on during and after outages. Smart Energy also addresses grid challenges including climate change and growing energy consumption, rising price, and theft. TM Forum announces Catalyst Awards biannually. Winning teams leverage proven technologies, competencies, and investments. Teams have six months to develop proofs of concept that outline digital solutions to today’s biggest telecommunications challenges.

TM Forum includes more than 900 member organizations and 85,000 individual members.

Learn more about Esri solutions for telecommunications at  esri.com/telecom.

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at  www.esri.com.

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