Industry milestone reached as TM Forum certifies 500th Open API implementation

Congratulations to Verizon, who can celebrate this week having landed the accolade of achieving the 500th Open API implementation conformance certification. This means that Verizon took one of 67 TM Forum Open APIs (in this case TMF645 - Service Qualification), used it to benefit their customers, and demonstrated that their live implementation meets the required industry standards. Basically, they nailed it (and have someone either very smart or very fortuitous who aligned the achievement with this milestone to perfection!).

If you need any convincing on the value of Open APIs and the advantages of using them, take a look at this recently published Inform article for a deeper dive.

While the demand for Open APIs is clear (evident in the 500,000+ times they've been downloaded) this new milestone for conformance certification talks to the industry’s appetite for collaboration as a means of enabling plug ‘n’ play IT and networks. Historically certification was coveted by suppliers as the certification makes solutions more appealing to buyers.

More recently we’ve seen an increase in service providers obtaining ‘real world certification’, which independently validates conformance of Open APIs for live implementations, giving service providers and their partners greater confidence and transparency. In addition to Verizon, Tecnotree has recently secured a real-world certification in partnership with MTN. Verizon, Bell Canada and Reliance Jio now feature towards the top of the Open API certification leaderboard.  

Verizon’s latest API will be used to check the availability of Verizon Home Services at a customer’s location. Using data, such as address and products subscribed to, it provides location specific availability along with a reason for any non-availability.

If you would like to achieve conformance for your implementation of a TM Open API, visit www.tmforum.org/conformance-certification/.