S/P Plan S/P Product S/P SLA S/P Statistic S/P Payment Enterprise Common Business Party Business Interaction (Under Construction) Location Policy Agreement Figure 8.20 SID information and data framework. Reproduced from TM Forum [31] 8.3.4.4 TAM With eTOM and SID there is a need for a mechanism that can group together data and function into recognized components. Further this mapping can then be treated as procurable as either applications or as services. The TAM (Telecoms Application Map) provides this grouping describing and naming a set of applica- tions, together with the data that can be used and the functions that can be performed. The TAM follows the structure of eTOM as depicted in Figure 8.21. 8.3.4.5 Compliance To verify OSS component integration, interoperability and productivity, NGOSS defines a suite of tests for compliance to eTOM, SID, architecture, and contract interface components. The compliance can be attained for any or all of these components either solely, or in combination with other components. These guidelines and tests are defined to ensure that systems defined and developed via NGOSS specifications are interoperable. 8.3.5 TM Forum Interface Program (TIP) The TM Forum has consolidated all of its interface standards, to create one program, the TM Forum Interface Program (TIP). TIP is an effort to produce OSS integration standards for the telecommunications Market/Sales Domain Mass Market Corporate Campaign Compensation Sales Channel Sales Sales Sales Sales Portals Management & Results Management Management Management Product Management Domain Product Strategy/ Product/Service Product Product Proposition Catalog Lifecycle Performance Management Management Management Management Operations Support & Readiness Fulfillment Assurance Billing Customer Management Domain Receivables Billing Account Customer QoS & Custome Management Management Customer Customer Order Management Billing Inquiry, Collection process Information Transaction al Management Customer Content Management, Retention & Loyalt