Frequently Asked Questions

The OMTP Product Profile process enables component technology, platform and device manufacturers to make self-declared statements of conformance for one or more of their products against approved OMTP recommendations. These statements are maintained on a publicly accessible database.

OMTP network operator members have made statements of intent in terms of their adoption of OMTP recommendations. By stating their level of conformance through a Product Profile statement, vendors enable network operators to use these statements as part of their requirements process, helping them to compare and contrast competing technology, solutions and offerings. The OMTP Product Profile process also offers a range of marketing benefits, these include: * The right to use the term “OMTP Product Profile” in documentation and marketing materials for the successful component technology, platform or device. * The rights to use the “OMTP Product Profile” logo (see above) * The right to include an OMTP quote in a press release relating to a successful Product Profile statement submission.

Successful statements remain valid for the lifetime of your product or until such time as the product is revised or re-released through a maintenance process.

If compliance to requirement is fixed and inalterable and may not be broken it is ‘FC – Inherent’. If compliance is dependent upon – or may be changed as a result of – option choice or integration decisions then it is ‘FC – Contingent’.

Yes, currently only OMTP participants may make OMTP Product Profile statements. OMTP participants are Full Members, Sponsors and Advisors. However, under certain circumstances, non-member companies MAY make public Product Profile statements. (For more information, please email productprofile@omtp.org). There is no requirement to be an OMTP participant to query the publicly accessible database.

All statements made shall be transferred to the archive database within 6 weeks of your OMTP membership lapsing. Your statements shall remain visible in the archive database, you will not be able to change or remove these statements from the archive database. Once transferred the statements are frozen.

Within the OMTP Product Profile process, conformance is defined at the OMTP Requirements document level whilst compliance is defined at the individual requirement level within the document. You are compliant to an individual requirement if you meet its specific functional needs; you have a conformance profile (Product Profile) if you have achieved compliance to a critical mass of the requirements within a given OMTP Requirements document for your technology. The variance in product profiles enables comparison between technologies and technology offerings.

It is recognised by OMTP, that not all technologies shall necessarily deliver all of the functional elements covered by a given OMTP Requirements document. Equally a product may not be compliant to all of the requirements within a given document and which are applicable to it, for a number of reasons. An OMTP Product Profile enables the component technology, platform and device manufacturer to state the requirements that are applicable to their solution and which they are compliant to as well as those they are not. Third parties are able to use this information to compare degrees of conformance across technology offerings.

Yes, the process enables statements that cover conformance to a subset of the requirements relevant to your component technology, platform or device.

Only OMTP participants may make a challenge. OMTP participants include Full Members, Sponsors, and Advisor members. Prior to making a formal challenge you should initiate contact with the point of contact for the target technology (shown within the statement) and raise your concerns with them directly. You will need to provide evidence in support of your challenge and indicate your intention to make the challenge if the issues cannot be resolved. Your challenge will not be accepted without evidence that discussions have taken place between you and the contact point. Both parties should seek to resolve issues off-line before any formal challenge is initiated. In the event you are unable to resolve the issue(s) you may make the challenge via the challenge link on the Product Profile portal. Each statement has a challenge link. Supporting evidence and descriptions of the challenge will be required. This information will need to be supplied to the OMTP office for the challenge to be considered. All the details submitted shall be made public on the database along with the challenge flag.

The matrix below outlines the access rights offered to OMTP members (including Associates, Sponsors, Advisors and full members) and non-members for the full launch process.

No. OMTP makes no validation or judgement on the accuracy of any submission, only that the submission is complete in terms of documentation and statement responses. OMTP can accept no liability for the statements made by submitting parties. Reliance on, or use of, the Product Profile process, or acceptance of “OMTP Product Profile” statements is at the users risk. The program is not a quality validation program and as such it does not provide warranty or quality assurance for technologies components or platforms.

No, all IPR relating to your technology, component or platform, remain with you. The process does not involve transfer of IPR to OMTP or any other party.

The public submission process is the preferred mechanism of stating compliance. This gives maximum exposure to the submitting technology company and of course gives the best visibility to companies interested in such suppliers. However, we accept that some companies have sensitive information they do not wish to disclose. This may be done either at the individual requirement level, by marking the requirement approriately or by marking the entire profile private. A private profile is not uploaded onto the website, and consquently there is no risk of confidential information escaping. But in making the private statement, the company is saying that a profile does exist for interested companies to inspect on a bilateral basis.