ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS BILLING AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT

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ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS
BILLING AND REVENUE MANAGEMENT
KEY FEATURES:
• Revenue generation
enables optimally priced
delivery of services
• Revenue capture enables
online and offline customer
services in real time,
improving customer
satisfaction and
encouraging usage
• Revenue collection
generates invoices, collects
payment, and posts
account information in real
time
• Revenue analysis provides
real-time verification,
reporting, analysis, and
control of all events and
actions, maximizing
revenue and minimizing
loss
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management uses a
single-product approach to address all of today’s communications
and media providers’ services and business models. Oracle
Communications Billing and Revenue Management helps service
providers accelerate the launch of innovative new services, enrich
global customer relationships, and reduce crippling costs
associated with traditional approaches to billing.
Supporting the Revenue Management Lifecycle
Revenue management is an end-to-end lifecycle of processes for generating,
capturing, and collecting revenue for each customer. Revenue management
includes the ongoing process of analyzing, evaluating, and optimizing each phase
of the lifecycle, providing complete insight and intelligence into the revenue
relationships that customers have with the service provider. Oracle
Communications Billing and Revenue Management is the only application that
provides a product-based solution for revenue management. It is built to industry
standards on a highly available, real-time platform, and it is functionally rich
enough to support all communications and media service provider business
processes across all lines of business.
Network
Service
Payment
3G UMTS WiFi WiMAX HSPA PSTN GPRS IMS
Local / Long Distance
VoIP
IPTV Satellite Radio
Mobile Voice
Gaming
Ringtone
Mobile Content Movies eBooks eCommerce
Pre-Paid Vouchers Invoice eWallet
CDMA2000
Push to Talk
Wireline Voice TV/Video Entertainment
& Information
Broadband Mobile

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KEY BENEFITS:
• Uses a platform approach
containing open, well-
defined interfaces and a
scalable, multitier
architecture
• Supports any network or
service
• Gives customers tools to be
self-sufficient, support
rapid integrations, and
reduce costs and timelines
associated with new service
and product rollouts
• Ensures all revenues are
accurately tracked, billed,
and collected, through
transactional integrity built
into the entire Revenue
Management lifecycle
• Delivers optimal
combination of prebuilt
functionality, modularity,
and extensibility
• Supports the full stack of
Billing and Revenue
Management business
processes
Revenue Generation
Revenue generation enables the delivery of services at optimal prices for the user,
service provider, and partner. Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue
Management’s powerful pricing management capabilities enable service providers
to easily meet sophisticated customer and market demands by offering total pricing
flexibility and unparalleled time-to-market performance. Convergent prepaid and
postpaid services are supported in a single subscriber account as well as complex
account hierarchies and charging relationships. With real-time access to customer
data, service providers can now centrally manage their customers and partners, and
focus on revenue generation by introducing competitive products and services to
the right customers at the right time. Profitable revenue share and settlements with
partners can also be created quickly and securely.
Revenue Capture
Revenue capture is the process of charging for the delivery of assets and services,
using competitive pricing models and flexible balance and credit controls to create
compelling offerings for the customer. Oracle Communications Billing and
Revenue Management delivers revenue capture capabilities for voice, data, content
services, and assets on fixed, mobile, and IP networks using prepaid, postpaid, and
e-wallet payment options. Through sophisticated real-time authentication,
authorization, and accounting (AAA), and a powerful convergent rating engine,
events are rated, account balances are updated, and financial information is posted
in real time, ensuring revenue accountability and assurance.
Revenue Collection
Revenue collection ensures all bills and invoices are generated, and appropriate
payments are collected from the correct debtors. Oracle Communications Billing
and Revenue Management is the only solution with patented real-time billing
technology that gives service providers unmatched flexibility in supporting their
billing requirements for diverse customer segments. It provides multicurrency
financial management, accounts receivable, general ledger, payment processing
and payment terms, collections, and dunning capabilities. And through partner
agreements, service providers can also share revenue with and pay, or collect
royalties with other service or network providers and content or media partners.
Revenue Analysis
Revenue analysis ensures all transactions are conducted with the greatest possible
control, integrity, and completeness. Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue
Management provides revenue assurance, reporting, roaming and interconnect
functionality. Its revenue assurance capabilities provide real-time verification,
reporting, analysis, and control of all events and actions, maximizing revenue and
minimizing loss associated with fraud and revenue leakage. Oracle
Communications Billing and Revenue Management:
• Manages carrier relations and wholesale operations using flexible rules-based
evaluation, guiding, and processing
• Supports SLAs for quality-of-service (QoS)-based charging, monitoring and
discounting based on dynamic service-level agreements

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• Processes roaming calls and data interchange with other network operators and
ensure out-collect, in-collect and reject account procedures (RAP) processing
• Makes intelligent use of customer and service data by running “what if”
simulations on new services and pricing
• Generates “best price plan” analysis, predict customer churn and evaluate
customer lifetime value
• Manages all aspects of assurance through an extensive set of prebuilt reports
Transforming How Global Leaders Compete and Win
Generating revenue and maximizing profit are top priorities for service providers.
They rely on revenue management solutions to help them respond to new market
opportunities, engage the customer, launch new services, and drive value to the
bottom line.
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management provides the world’s
first revenue management platform that supports multiple services, business
models, and customer types. With its productized solution based on industry
standards, Oracle offers a single platform by which customers can dramatically
accelerate the launch of innovative, profit-rich services, while significantly
reducing the crippling costs of legacy billing systems.
The Oracle Advantage
Oracle Application Integration Architecture enables service providers to achieve
instant value from three best-of-breed industry solutions, Oracle Communications
Billing and Revenue Management, Siebel Customer Relationship Management
and Oracle Financials. The integrated solution framework provides
communications service providers with the following key business benefits:
• Enable faster time to market for new products and services
• Improve business agility and performance
• Streamline operations, while reducing implementation and operational cost
With a flexible, standards-based framework, the productized integrations are
designed to work together, can be easily extended to meet business needs and are
maintained and upgraded with new releases.
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Management, call +1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative or visit
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