The Enhanced Telecom Operations Map? (eTOM) [b-TMF GB921] has been developed by the TeleManagement Forum (TMF) as a reference framework for categorizing all the business activities that a service provider will use. This Recommendation is a part of a series of ITU-T texts dealing with eTOM (Release 7)@ which has the following structure: M.3050.0 eTOM ?C Introduction. M.3050.1 eTOM ?C The business process framework. (TMF GB921 Release 7.0.) M.3050.2 eTOM ?C Process decompositions and descriptions. (TMF GB921 Addendum D ?C Release 7.0.) M.3050.3 eTOM ?C Representative process flows. (TMF GB921 Addendum F ?C Release 4.5.) M.3050.4 eTOM ?C B2B integration: Using B2B inter-enterprise integration with the eTOM. (TMF GB921 Addendum B ?C Release 6.1.) M.3050 Supplement 1 eTOM ?C Interim View of an Interpreter's Guide for eTOM and ITIL Practitioners. (TMF GB921 Application Note V ?C Release 6.0.) M.3050 Supplement 2 eTOM ?C Public B2B Business Operations Map (BOM). (TMF GB921 Addendum C ?C Release 4.0.) M.3050 Supplement 3 eTOM to M.3400 mapping. M.3050 Supplement 4 An eTOM Primer (TMF GB921 Addendum P ?C Release 4.5). Additional parts will be published as material becomes available. This series of ITU-T Recommendations M.3050.x build on the management services and managed areas approach described in [ITU-T M.3010] and [ITU-T M.3200] by developing a business process framework. This Recommendation gives the background to the development of the management services approach and describes how the business processes approach relates to other telecommunications management Recommendations.