Moscow, 15 December 2003. «STROM Telecom» takes part at the 4-th International Forum «Billing. IT-Telecom 2003». Presentation will start at 17:00 on Monday 15 December. It’s devoted to company’s work in TM Forum (eTOM, former ideology TMN), Catalyst project (Dallas, TX, USA). Implementing new technologies for «Comstar» will let migration of installed legacy systems up to NGOSS (Next Generation OSS). Except «STROM telecom» and «Comstar» such companies as «Microsoft», «BSB» and «IBS» take part in the Forum. Telecom market leaders as «Cisco Systems», «Amdocs», «Lucent Technologies», «Oracle», «British Telecom», «Telecom Italia», «Nokia», «Nortel Networks» and many others also take part in TM Forum for developing future recommendations for TM Forum and ITU-T. Projects’ aim is to show practical results of developed by TM Forum participants concepts. It’s possible to take your monolith legacy applications and do the following: Step One: Should include inventory of existing application as a whole: business areas covered, existing data content. Step Two: Defines communication and cooperation. Step Three: Defines language and translation during communication. Step Four: Common data are defined and their synchronization is assured. Step Five: Everything is tested & applied. Initial business processing can begin. A clearer picture of situation should emerge: tested processes, reconciled and synchronized data without large investment, etc. On review, some applications may need adaptation or may be operating unchanged in future use. Certainly, should your OSS operate according to globally accepted principles, it will be because you have successfully implemented all five steps detailed here.