The document discusses the need for convergent billing and operations support solutions for telecommunications operators. Major use cases of convergent billing include a uniform product catalog, real-time charging, a unified customer hierarchy, and single billing. These functions allow operators to offer bundled services, gain insights into customer usage and revenue, and improve the customer experience. The document also outlines additional convergent functions beyond billing such as policy management, self-care portals, and campaign management that leverage a centralized view of customers.
The document describes the order to cash process for a telecom company. It involves creating a commercial order for a customer by selecting their product and validating the order. The commercial order is then decomposed into a service order and resource order. Tasks are orchestrated and executed to allocate network resources, workforce, and assign a phone number. The service is then provisioned and the customer is billed.
The document discusses convergent billing for telecom services. It notes issues with existing billing systems like inflexibility and different technologies. It states telecom is moving toward network access convergence, innovative value-added services, and modifying software pieces. The document suggests billing system convergence can occur through network, vendor, technology, and billing system convergence. It outlines an architecture for a convergent billing system and the evolution of billing systems through postpaid-prepaid convergence, service level and customer experience convergence, and simultaneous multi-network convergence.
This document discusses cloud computing. It begins with an introduction and overview of essential cloud characteristics, service models, deployment models, architecture, and underlying components. It then discusses key research challenges in cloud computing. The document provides definitions of cloud computing and outlines the advantages of the cloud model compared to traditional internal IT or managed service models. It also diagrams the different cloud service models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
The document discusses SAP Cloud for Customer Engagement, a cloud-based customer relationship management platform. It highlights key features including rapid deployment, frequent innovation updates, agile configuration and integration capabilities. The platform provides a full suite of customer engagement applications for sales, service, marketing, commerce and social media. It uses predictive analytics and is designed to help companies improve customer experiences and drive business results.
1. The document discusses order management, activation, and provisioning processes for telecommunications services.
2. Order management systems allow customers to place orders and service providers to process, modify, and fulfill orders across channels while supporting multiple products.
3. Activation involves decomposing service orders, executing scripts across network devices to provision services, and notifying relevant systems upon completion.
Developing Value Added Services (VAS) and Product Roadmap for Telecoms OperatorsAli Saghaeian
Please email me "saghaeian [at] gmail.com" for any research, consulting and training request on Developing Value Added Services (VAS) and Product Roadmap.
This presentation includes topics such as:
Reference framework for VAS product and platform launch
VAS customer value proposition (CVP) design
Service Management Life Cycle
VAS categorization for different business models
VAS function in the organization
Sample VAS Product Descriptions
The framework and Principles to design the product roadmap
Developing Product Ideas and shortlisting for future development
Template for Operator’s 5-year Product Roadmap
Integrated Order Management is a solution by Oracle that addresses challenges in order management. It automates the order delivery flow across applications like Siebel CRM, OSM, and PIM. This provides [1] fast offer design and testing, [2] short order cycle times through order decomposition and orchestration, and [3] lower costs by reducing duplication between systems.
The document describes the order to cash process for a telecom company. It involves creating a commercial order for a customer by selecting their product and validating the order. The commercial order is then decomposed into a service order and resource order. Tasks are orchestrated and executed to allocate network resources, workforce, and assign a phone number. The service is then provisioned and the customer is billed.
The document discusses convergent billing for telecom services. It notes issues with existing billing systems like inflexibility and different technologies. It states telecom is moving toward network access convergence, innovative value-added services, and modifying software pieces. The document suggests billing system convergence can occur through network, vendor, technology, and billing system convergence. It outlines an architecture for a convergent billing system and the evolution of billing systems through postpaid-prepaid convergence, service level and customer experience convergence, and simultaneous multi-network convergence.
This document discusses cloud computing. It begins with an introduction and overview of essential cloud characteristics, service models, deployment models, architecture, and underlying components. It then discusses key research challenges in cloud computing. The document provides definitions of cloud computing and outlines the advantages of the cloud model compared to traditional internal IT or managed service models. It also diagrams the different cloud service models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
The document discusses SAP Cloud for Customer Engagement, a cloud-based customer relationship management platform. It highlights key features including rapid deployment, frequent innovation updates, agile configuration and integration capabilities. The platform provides a full suite of customer engagement applications for sales, service, marketing, commerce and social media. It uses predictive analytics and is designed to help companies improve customer experiences and drive business results.
1. The document discusses order management, activation, and provisioning processes for telecommunications services.
2. Order management systems allow customers to place orders and service providers to process, modify, and fulfill orders across channels while supporting multiple products.
3. Activation involves decomposing service orders, executing scripts across network devices to provision services, and notifying relevant systems upon completion.
Developing Value Added Services (VAS) and Product Roadmap for Telecoms OperatorsAli Saghaeian
Please email me "saghaeian [at] gmail.com" for any research, consulting and training request on Developing Value Added Services (VAS) and Product Roadmap.
This presentation includes topics such as:
Reference framework for VAS product and platform launch
VAS customer value proposition (CVP) design
Service Management Life Cycle
VAS categorization for different business models
VAS function in the organization
Sample VAS Product Descriptions
The framework and Principles to design the product roadmap
Developing Product Ideas and shortlisting for future development
Template for Operator’s 5-year Product Roadmap
Integrated Order Management is a solution by Oracle that addresses challenges in order management. It automates the order delivery flow across applications like Siebel CRM, OSM, and PIM. This provides [1] fast offer design and testing, [2] short order cycle times through order decomposition and orchestration, and [3] lower costs by reducing duplication between systems.
The document provides an overview of Infonova's Front & Back Office BSS platform, including its product management, customer management, fulfillment, billing and collections capabilities. It discusses how the BSS supports both Telco 1.0 and Telco 2.0 business models through modular and multi-tenant order-to-cash processes. Several case studies are presented showing how the BSS has helped telecom operators transform their businesses.
The document summarizes the benefits of cloud computing for enterprises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to pay for access to IT resources as needed rather than owning physical infrastructure, which optimizes costs. It also allows companies to quickly scale their infrastructure at peak times without over-provisioning for average usage. The document then outlines different types of cloud models and describes Microsoft's cloud offerings, including the Windows Azure platform and categories of cloud-based services provided by Microsoft.
"Point Of Sale Software|Web Based POS System|Touch Screen POS|eXert POS "eXerterp
eXert POS Is a Point Of Sale Software,Web Based POS and Touch Screen POS.eXert POS is a system suited for online and offline retail chains of restaurants, hotels, fast food chains Etc. eXert POS system replaces a conventional cash register
Next Generation Service Platforms for Multimedia and Value Added ServicesAli Saghaeian
Some of the topics covered in this slide deck:
VoLTE: A Catalyst for Transformation
VoLTE vs OTT Voice Call
Next Generation Wi-Fi Calling
Consumer Use Cases for VoWiFi
WebRTC value-added services and Telco use-cases
IMS Underpinning for Next-Gen Telco Services
Virtualization evolution and roadmap - the path to NFV
Sap Billing for Public Transport & Passenger RailSAP
Various estimates put global investment in smart transportaion systems nearly to $15B from 2011 through 2017. Smart ticketing is a subset of this market. Railway carriers face high operating costs for siloed homegrown systems. Learn more about how to streamline your smart ticketing system.
This document provides an overview of Oracle ERP presented by Nitin Maheshwari. It begins with an introduction to ERP systems and then discusses Oracle as an ERP vendor. The core modules of Oracle ERP are outlined, including financials, distribution, human resources, payroll, CRM, manufacturing and more. It then explains how ERP systems work by integrating a centralized database. The document also reviews benefits of ERP such as improved integration, efficiency and access to information. It concludes by emphasizing the large market for ERP services and encouraging attendees to pursue related careers and courses.
Presentation on Cloud Computing,Traditional Architecture, Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Why Cloud Computing?, Cloud service Model, Graphical comparison between service model, Cloud Deployment model
This document describes an automated OSS/BSS solution that can configure and manage billing processes, data extracts, testing, operations, processes, and configurations through a single platform. It allows users to automate and schedule billing processes, customize data extracts for reporting, monitor tasks, and integrate across OSS/BSS systems. The solution is supported on mobile devices and designed for SLA monitoring, alerts and escalations, workflow automation, and seamless system integration. It includes pre-built products for order tracking, rating monitoring, business process monitoring, and system health checks.
The document discusses next generation OSS/BSS architecture and tools. It describes the Telecom Management Network (TMN) reference model, which provided a standardized architecture for managing telecommunications networks. The TMN model includes functional, physical, informational, and logical layered architectures. It also discusses challenges with legacy OSS/BSS systems and introduces the NGOSS framework as a set of tools and lifecycle developed by the TM Forum to help design and implement next generation management systems, including the eTOM framework for defining business processes and the SID for defining shared information.
A SAP client is an organizational and legal entity that protects business management data. Each client contains its own set of tables and user data. Multiple clients can exist within a single SAP system, with each client serving a unique purpose like development, testing, or production. When creating a new client, attributes like the client number, name, currency, and settings for changes and transports must be defined.
- Five simple steps to migrate VMs from an on-premise VMware or Hyper-V environment to AWS: 1) prepare the environment, 2) configure connectivity, 3) enable AWS as a disaster recovery target, 4) configure replication of VMs to AWS, and 5) test, report, and move VMs to AWS.
- Zerto Virtual Replication software provides near-sync replication of block-level VM changes from on-premise to AWS with recovery point objectives (RPOs) of seconds and recovery time objectives (RTOs) of 1-4 hours.
- Migrating VMs to AWS with Zerto can provide significant cost savings over traditional on-premise
The document presents a presentation on cloud computing. It begins with an outline of topics to be covered, including definitions of cloud computing, the history of cloud computing, components and characteristics of cloud computing, cloud service models, types of clouds, cloud architecture, properties, security, operating systems, applications, and advantages and disadvantages. It then goes on to define cloud computing and describe its various components, characteristics, service models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. It also discusses types of clouds, properties, security considerations, operating systems, applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing.
Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
been adopted by the industry, though there are many existing issues like Load Balancing, Virtual
Machine Migration, Server Consolidation, Energy Management, etc.
1. The document discusses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its key characteristics.
2. It compares SOA to past architectures like application architecture and enterprise architecture.
3. The core characteristics of SOA include promoting loose coupling, reuse, and interoperability through services based on open standards.
This slide pack gives an overview of what initiatives CSP/Telco's need to address to take advantage of Digital Transformation and next wave of Disruptive technologies to gain Customer confidence and improve Customer Experience using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approach.
Fog computing is a model that processes and stores data near network edge devices rather than solely in cloud data centers. It extends cloud computing to the edge of the network to provide low latency services to end users. Key characteristics include proximity to users, dense geographical distribution, and support for mobility. Fog computing is well-suited for applications requiring real-time processing like industrial automation and IoT networks of sensors. It helps improve quality of service by bringing services closer to users and enabling real-time analytics on distributed data sources.
Cloud computing is the latest of computing paradigms. It promises to change the way people use computing resources. Using Internet as the backbone, cloud computing asserts that it is possible to provide computing as a “utility” to end users “as and when needed” basis. Cloud computing has a potential to serve users of all kinds: individual users, institutions, industry at large. This report cover issues such nature and scope of cloud computing, its applications, business rationale etc.
Cloud computing is a business model that harnesses the web as the ultimate business platform. Cloud computing is impregnated with immense potential for array of practical applications. The model is expected make computing needs available via web on retail basis and is called cloud computing. Cloud computing intends to make the Internet the ultimate home of all computing resources- storage, computations, applications and allow end user to available them in quantities of her choice, location of their preferences, for duration of their liking. In other world web become the provision store for all your computing needs.
The document discusses features of SAP S/4HANA 1809 for logistics. It highlights key innovations in areas like embedded transport management, supply chain, digital manufacturing, and inventory management. It also covers SAP's roadmap for future releases over the next 12 months and how tools like SAP Readiness Check and CoPilot can help customers evaluate S/4HANA and understand new features. Machine learning capabilities are being enhanced in S/4HANA 1809 for applications in sourcing, procurement, and inventory management.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, characteristics, deployment and service models. It defines cloud computing as providing on-demand access to computing resources and applications over the internet. The key characteristics are on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The common deployment models are public, private and hybrid clouds. The main service models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
BRM is an end-to-end revenue management system that handles the full revenue lifecycle for media and communications companies, including setting prices, registering customers, capturing usage data, billing customers, and collecting payments. It rates customer events in real-time or through batch processing, stores the data, and updates customer account balances. BRM also performs monthly accounting and billing cycles to generate customer bills. The system architecture includes client applications, connection managers, processing modules, data managers, and multiple databases.
Unified Billing-Realization of convergent architecture for charging and billi...IDES Editor
4G is expected to get deployed by many telecom
companies in this year. Technologies employed by 4G being
tested and going to hit the commercial market soon. When
fully implemented, 4G is expected to offer high speed
transmission and provide seamless handoffs across multiple
high speed heterogeneous networks. These heterogeneous
networks on converged platform provide access to varied
services over an IPv6 core. Convergence & high speed would
provide opportunity to end user to use compounded services
from varied network providers; this will lead to big challenge
for accounting, Charging and billing. This paper in
continuation of our previous papers [7][21] discusses a
Convergent Framework Architecture (CFA) which provides a
unified bill to the user for all his compounded usage across
varied network operators. The CFA introduces a trusted third
party operator called the Convergent Network Operator
(CNO) to achieve a transparent charging, accounting and
unified billing provisions. The functionality of the CFA is
demonstrated with a prototype. We were able to realize unified
bill to end user for the usage of different type of service from
varied network providers. This concept and business model
will bring better Quality of service (QoS) not only at
competitive price but also provide independence and choice to
users to opt for specific services from Quality network
operators. These instructions give you basic guidelines for
preparing camera-ready papers for ACEEE’s conference
proceedings/Journal Publications.
TABS, is an integrated software package designed for the mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. This capability provides us with a solution that is already well versed in supporting Local, International. TABS convergent Customer Care & Billing system undertakes the whole billing process of a single converged system and rates all services against a single unified rating scheme.TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for the major telecom groups providing Non stop services for over 100+ customers.
The ITS solution is based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), which helps business owners respond more quickly and in a cost-effective manner to changing market conditions. With SOA, business changes can be easily met through customization rather than traditional custom development, making it easier to quickly implement changes without requiring radical system modifications. The ITS SOA-based solution also simplifies interconnection with and usage of existing IT assets, which facilitates integration with existing systems and increases interoperability.
The document provides an overview of Infonova's Front & Back Office BSS platform, including its product management, customer management, fulfillment, billing and collections capabilities. It discusses how the BSS supports both Telco 1.0 and Telco 2.0 business models through modular and multi-tenant order-to-cash processes. Several case studies are presented showing how the BSS has helped telecom operators transform their businesses.
The document summarizes the benefits of cloud computing for enterprises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to pay for access to IT resources as needed rather than owning physical infrastructure, which optimizes costs. It also allows companies to quickly scale their infrastructure at peak times without over-provisioning for average usage. The document then outlines different types of cloud models and describes Microsoft's cloud offerings, including the Windows Azure platform and categories of cloud-based services provided by Microsoft.
"Point Of Sale Software|Web Based POS System|Touch Screen POS|eXert POS "eXerterp
eXert POS Is a Point Of Sale Software,Web Based POS and Touch Screen POS.eXert POS is a system suited for online and offline retail chains of restaurants, hotels, fast food chains Etc. eXert POS system replaces a conventional cash register
Next Generation Service Platforms for Multimedia and Value Added ServicesAli Saghaeian
Some of the topics covered in this slide deck:
VoLTE: A Catalyst for Transformation
VoLTE vs OTT Voice Call
Next Generation Wi-Fi Calling
Consumer Use Cases for VoWiFi
WebRTC value-added services and Telco use-cases
IMS Underpinning for Next-Gen Telco Services
Virtualization evolution and roadmap - the path to NFV
Sap Billing for Public Transport & Passenger RailSAP
Various estimates put global investment in smart transportaion systems nearly to $15B from 2011 through 2017. Smart ticketing is a subset of this market. Railway carriers face high operating costs for siloed homegrown systems. Learn more about how to streamline your smart ticketing system.
This document provides an overview of Oracle ERP presented by Nitin Maheshwari. It begins with an introduction to ERP systems and then discusses Oracle as an ERP vendor. The core modules of Oracle ERP are outlined, including financials, distribution, human resources, payroll, CRM, manufacturing and more. It then explains how ERP systems work by integrating a centralized database. The document also reviews benefits of ERP such as improved integration, efficiency and access to information. It concludes by emphasizing the large market for ERP services and encouraging attendees to pursue related careers and courses.
Presentation on Cloud Computing,Traditional Architecture, Characteristics of Cloud Computing, Why Cloud Computing?, Cloud service Model, Graphical comparison between service model, Cloud Deployment model
This document describes an automated OSS/BSS solution that can configure and manage billing processes, data extracts, testing, operations, processes, and configurations through a single platform. It allows users to automate and schedule billing processes, customize data extracts for reporting, monitor tasks, and integrate across OSS/BSS systems. The solution is supported on mobile devices and designed for SLA monitoring, alerts and escalations, workflow automation, and seamless system integration. It includes pre-built products for order tracking, rating monitoring, business process monitoring, and system health checks.
The document discusses next generation OSS/BSS architecture and tools. It describes the Telecom Management Network (TMN) reference model, which provided a standardized architecture for managing telecommunications networks. The TMN model includes functional, physical, informational, and logical layered architectures. It also discusses challenges with legacy OSS/BSS systems and introduces the NGOSS framework as a set of tools and lifecycle developed by the TM Forum to help design and implement next generation management systems, including the eTOM framework for defining business processes and the SID for defining shared information.
A SAP client is an organizational and legal entity that protects business management data. Each client contains its own set of tables and user data. Multiple clients can exist within a single SAP system, with each client serving a unique purpose like development, testing, or production. When creating a new client, attributes like the client number, name, currency, and settings for changes and transports must be defined.
- Five simple steps to migrate VMs from an on-premise VMware or Hyper-V environment to AWS: 1) prepare the environment, 2) configure connectivity, 3) enable AWS as a disaster recovery target, 4) configure replication of VMs to AWS, and 5) test, report, and move VMs to AWS.
- Zerto Virtual Replication software provides near-sync replication of block-level VM changes from on-premise to AWS with recovery point objectives (RPOs) of seconds and recovery time objectives (RTOs) of 1-4 hours.
- Migrating VMs to AWS with Zerto can provide significant cost savings over traditional on-premise
The document presents a presentation on cloud computing. It begins with an outline of topics to be covered, including definitions of cloud computing, the history of cloud computing, components and characteristics of cloud computing, cloud service models, types of clouds, cloud architecture, properties, security, operating systems, applications, and advantages and disadvantages. It then goes on to define cloud computing and describe its various components, characteristics, service models including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. It also discusses types of clouds, properties, security considerations, operating systems, applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing.
Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
been adopted by the industry, though there are many existing issues like Load Balancing, Virtual
Machine Migration, Server Consolidation, Energy Management, etc.
1. The document discusses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its key characteristics.
2. It compares SOA to past architectures like application architecture and enterprise architecture.
3. The core characteristics of SOA include promoting loose coupling, reuse, and interoperability through services based on open standards.
This slide pack gives an overview of what initiatives CSP/Telco's need to address to take advantage of Digital Transformation and next wave of Disruptive technologies to gain Customer confidence and improve Customer Experience using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approach.
Fog computing is a model that processes and stores data near network edge devices rather than solely in cloud data centers. It extends cloud computing to the edge of the network to provide low latency services to end users. Key characteristics include proximity to users, dense geographical distribution, and support for mobility. Fog computing is well-suited for applications requiring real-time processing like industrial automation and IoT networks of sensors. It helps improve quality of service by bringing services closer to users and enabling real-time analytics on distributed data sources.
Cloud computing is the latest of computing paradigms. It promises to change the way people use computing resources. Using Internet as the backbone, cloud computing asserts that it is possible to provide computing as a “utility” to end users “as and when needed” basis. Cloud computing has a potential to serve users of all kinds: individual users, institutions, industry at large. This report cover issues such nature and scope of cloud computing, its applications, business rationale etc.
Cloud computing is a business model that harnesses the web as the ultimate business platform. Cloud computing is impregnated with immense potential for array of practical applications. The model is expected make computing needs available via web on retail basis and is called cloud computing. Cloud computing intends to make the Internet the ultimate home of all computing resources- storage, computations, applications and allow end user to available them in quantities of her choice, location of their preferences, for duration of their liking. In other world web become the provision store for all your computing needs.
The document discusses features of SAP S/4HANA 1809 for logistics. It highlights key innovations in areas like embedded transport management, supply chain, digital manufacturing, and inventory management. It also covers SAP's roadmap for future releases over the next 12 months and how tools like SAP Readiness Check and CoPilot can help customers evaluate S/4HANA and understand new features. Machine learning capabilities are being enhanced in S/4HANA 1809 for applications in sourcing, procurement, and inventory management.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, characteristics, deployment and service models. It defines cloud computing as providing on-demand access to computing resources and applications over the internet. The key characteristics are on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The common deployment models are public, private and hybrid clouds. The main service models are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
BRM is an end-to-end revenue management system that handles the full revenue lifecycle for media and communications companies, including setting prices, registering customers, capturing usage data, billing customers, and collecting payments. It rates customer events in real-time or through batch processing, stores the data, and updates customer account balances. BRM also performs monthly accounting and billing cycles to generate customer bills. The system architecture includes client applications, connection managers, processing modules, data managers, and multiple databases.
Unified Billing-Realization of convergent architecture for charging and billi...IDES Editor
4G is expected to get deployed by many telecom
companies in this year. Technologies employed by 4G being
tested and going to hit the commercial market soon. When
fully implemented, 4G is expected to offer high speed
transmission and provide seamless handoffs across multiple
high speed heterogeneous networks. These heterogeneous
networks on converged platform provide access to varied
services over an IPv6 core. Convergence & high speed would
provide opportunity to end user to use compounded services
from varied network providers; this will lead to big challenge
for accounting, Charging and billing. This paper in
continuation of our previous papers [7][21] discusses a
Convergent Framework Architecture (CFA) which provides a
unified bill to the user for all his compounded usage across
varied network operators. The CFA introduces a trusted third
party operator called the Convergent Network Operator
(CNO) to achieve a transparent charging, accounting and
unified billing provisions. The functionality of the CFA is
demonstrated with a prototype. We were able to realize unified
bill to end user for the usage of different type of service from
varied network providers. This concept and business model
will bring better Quality of service (QoS) not only at
competitive price but also provide independence and choice to
users to opt for specific services from Quality network
operators. These instructions give you basic guidelines for
preparing camera-ready papers for ACEEE’s conference
proceedings/Journal Publications.
TABS, is an integrated software package designed for the mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. This capability provides us with a solution that is already well versed in supporting Local, International. TABS convergent Customer Care & Billing system undertakes the whole billing process of a single converged system and rates all services against a single unified rating scheme.TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for the major telecom groups providing Non stop services for over 100+ customers.
The ITS solution is based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), which helps business owners respond more quickly and in a cost-effective manner to changing market conditions. With SOA, business changes can be easily met through customization rather than traditional custom development, making it easier to quickly implement changes without requiring radical system modifications. The ITS SOA-based solution also simplifies interconnection with and usage of existing IT assets, which facilitates integration with existing systems and increases interoperability.
A presentation that provides an overview of software testing approaches including "schools" of software testing and a variety of testing techniques and practices.
PCRF-Policy Charging System-Functional AnalysisBiju M R
The document discusses policy charging and management in 3GPP networks. It introduces key concepts like the PCRF which generates policy and QoS rules based on subscriber and service information from other network nodes. The objectives of policy management are to prioritize traffic to meet SLAs, personalize services to individual subscribers, and create new revenue opportunities. The document outlines the roles of various network nodes involved in policy enforcement like PCEF, BBERF, SPR. It also describes the Gx, Gxx, Rx and Sy reference points used on the interfaces between PCRF and other policy related nodes.
The document discusses various aspects of telecommunications business support systems (BSS), including the evolution of mobile network generations, the roles of different players in the industry, services provided by telecom operators, challenges faced by operators and customers, and the key components and challenges of billing systems. It covers topics such as mobile payments, content providers, smartphones, operations and business support systems, challenges of billing, discount schemes, and mobile number portability.
How Cloud Service Providers Can Effectively Monetize and Deliver the Ultimate...Comverse, Inc.
1. CSPs face challenges in monetizing cloud services including becoming a commodity, poor client satisfaction from billing, and missed revenue opportunities.
2. Effective monetization is key to minimizing risks, developing sustainable business models, and creating market differentiation for CSPs.
3. Billing models for CSPs must be flexible, value-based, and reflective of dynamic consumption patterns to meet enterprise needs and avoid issues like "bill shock".
1) Insurance companies are facing challenges from changing weather patterns, regulations, and competition requiring more agile systems.
2) To adapt quickly, insurers are modernizing legacy systems through policy administration systems, claims administration systems, predictive models, and billing systems on distributed platforms.
3) These modernized systems allow for faster product development, better risk assessment, automated processes, and more options for customers and agents.
BluLogix offers a shared services management platform called BluIQ that helps organizations track, manage, allocate, and bill for IT resources in three primary ways:
1) Service Catalog & Portfolio Management to define services that align with business value and manage digital assets.
2) Service Asset Management to track usage and costs of SaaS/cloud subscriptions and drive out waste.
3) Service Financial Management to associate the IT budget with business value through a business hierarchy and account structure that rolls costs up to stakeholder groups.
Business Process as a Service for Utilities: From Meter to CashCognizant
As utilities adopt smart meters, smart grids and other innovative digital technologies, deploying business process as a service (BPaaS) offers great benefits for operational efficiency, customer service and controlling IT expenses.
How Telecoms Can Adjust To The Reality Of The Digital EraComarch
'It is important to gently transition the technology into people’s everyday lives and get them used to the fact that their devices can now talk, something that wasn’t previously possible' - says Michiel Nuytemans, Comarch OSS Solution Manager.
How Telecoms Can Adjust To The Reality Of The Digital EraComarch
'It is important to gently transition the technology into people’s everyday lives and get them used to the fact that their devices can now talk, something that wasn’t previously possible' - says Michiel Nuytemans, Comarch OSS Solution Manager.
Download the article to learn how to provide service continuity in the era of more and more complex networks!
Consolidate system stacks and accelerate time to market with multi-tenant BSSMaciej Szelezin
Article from VanillaPlus magazine.
Digital version available here: http://www.vanillaplus.com/vp-featured/talking-heads/item/2439-talking-heads-consolidate-system-stacks-and-accelerate-time-to-market-with-multi-tenant-bss
Public Sector Chargeback: Software-as-a-Service for Shared Services Frequentl...BluLogix
Public sector shared services groups are increasingly tasked with managing expenditures, reducing costs, standardizing infrastructure and leading digital transformations to drive policies and standards across their organizations.
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1. Convergent Billing and other supporting use cases –A whitepaper
Proliferation of next generation converged digital services, increased competition from linear and
nonlinear players like OTT providers, higher expectation from customers on seamless experience in
terms of service and support; all these are driving operators to look for convergent business and
operations support solutions capable of providing tools which could manage the new convergent digital
service delivery chain.
Introduction
Last decade had witnessed telecommunication, media and entertainment industry growing into a new
dimension, where service and delivery models became more or less digital and IP oriented. IMS and OTT
technologies are further driving digitization into a new convergent world. At the same time Operators are
having a tough time to keep up with customer’s expectation for an end to end experience across products
offered, ordered, consumed and monetized. Operators are also realizing the importance of partnership
with OTT providers and content aggregators who at the moment are riding on top of operator network by
offering innovative value added services to the operators own customer . However this is adversely
affecting operator revenue by creating a scenario where operator itself is getting downgrade to a position
similar to a dump pipe carrying all value and still not able to make return out of that.
Today’s Telecom, broadband and other careers are facing these challenges irrespective of tiers and
geographies , and most of them are aware of the agility required in their strategy, systems and approach
to manage it. Industry analysts, Forums, integrators and ISV are helping operators to address these
concerns and foremost of their plan is to have the convergent business and operations support system
implemented. The key use cases behind such an initiative is that , it will enable operator to become more
agile with their offerings, transparent in their interface towards customers , ensure real time bit wise
monetization of services, open up towards partners and above all, will provide centralized view on
customers and their relationships , usage and revenue patterns .
It is a fact; Tier One CSP and large MSO are increasingly embracing new convergent billing and charging
platforms to address these challenges. The primary objective of such a solution is to have a central
system capable of addressing the catalog, charging and billing function across different industries –
Retail, Business; Service streams – data, voice and video; Payment models – pre, post and hybrid.
Convergent Billing- Major Use cases
The major convergent functions which operators often consider for evaluation are convergent product
catalog, online charging, Unified customer hierarchy and single convergent billing. Table 1.0 shows those
use cases and expected behavior.
2. Table 1.0 –Convergent Billing ; Major Features
Convergent Billing Feature Expected functionality
Uniform product catalog One of the key aspects of a convergent system is its
ability to bundle diverse products together to form
hybrid services and offer to customer. The major
factors which get positively influenced due to this
are, the operators capability to launch services
quickly and thus better ROI and reduced
implementation costs.
Single product and service catalogue is key in this
direction which could accommodate all services,
resource and product definitions of operator and
partner ecosystem.
The module is expected to have flexible and intuitive
management features to define services and
products, attributes associated, define business and
compatibility rules which could determine the
patterns while bundling and grouping, attach
resource and launch templates or plan offers to
customer.
The uniform catalog is also proposed as the central
entity where operator’s whole service, products and
plans across retail, corporate business being
defined and managed.
Real time charging or Online
charging system
The most widely discussed aspect of convergent
solution is its capability to handle convergent
charging and more specifically real time convergent
charging.
Convergent charging will help operators to launch
true convergent service portfolios like IMS video
calling , where the charging system not only need to
interact with next generation IMS network elements
for capturing the usage information in online , but
also perform session management and rating of two
diverse service portfolio which is Voice and Data.
Customer may have different rating characteristics
or tariff as part of his/her rate pan for addressing the
3. usage for voice and data usage even if the service
delivery is of a single hybrid service.
In addition to the convergent service charging, OCS
is also increasingly replacing camel based IN
platforms in the MNO network topology because of
latter’s inability to support complex charging and
promotions requirements which are more common
within the prepaid world of service delivery.
Flow based charging or service aware charging is
another use case which is now widely used by
operators in connection with offering VAS offerings
like social packs on top of subscriber’s base service
plans. Convergent real time rating or OCS as per
the international telecom standard body 3GPP is
being used as the solution framework to support
such type of charging.
In addition to service convergence, OCS or
convergent charging should also handle multiple
payment models- postpaid, prepaid and hybrid
across balance, credit limit and subscription limits.
Real time promotions or rating time discounts, which
need complex algorithms to work is another
powerful upselling and retention feature offered by
convergent billing solution
Personalized Charging is also increasingly popular
in terms of customer, location, bearer, access
channel, multi-service association, contents,
occasion, customer, etc.
Unified customer hierarchy Unified customer hierarchy is the ability of
convergent systems to support all subscriptions
across services and payment modes, maintaining all
the subscription and sharing rules, under one
customer entity.
It should also support multiple nodes of child
customers and respective subscription under a
parent customer hierarchy. The view offers a 360
degree view of customer’s service, subscription,
4. revenue patterns of each individual customer.
A key aspect of this function is the ability to manage
the subscriber profile repository of all service across
fixed, wireless and video spectrum.
Allowance sharing rules, defining thresholds, and
alert modes on expiry of limits, are defined at the
hierarchical level.
Single bill The most common use case of convergent billing
system is the single bill capability.
It is a combination of all the use case mentioned
above and in addition, bringing a capability to
consolidate all charges, across service and products
to form a single bill.
A convergent billing platform should also have the
capability to generate statements for prepaid
subscriptions as well within same bill.
It should support moving subscriptions across
hierarchy between different child nodes so as to
maintain different hierarchical view for charging,
billing and reporting.
Cross service discounts, another tool for upsell and
customer retention is also addressed within this
framework
Capability to address multiple currency, multi
country deployment options, tax on tax are other
features which are discussed in connection with this
function.
Convergent Billing - Current Implementation patterns
It is understood that, large MNO and MSOs who have deployed OCS or convergent billing system; still
depend on legacy billing or charging platforms like INs for their prevailing service portfolios like GSM, 2G
and most often the OCS or convergent platforms are only used to address newly launched service
portfolios in terms of 4G or LTE …reason being fear of change or cost incurred in migration.
However, there are other set of service providers which includes majority of ISPs and tier 2, tier 3 MSO
who are trying to innovate with new access technologies as part of competing in this new digital world.
Have been using legacy primitive business support systems or even no such systems, most of these
5. operators are not in a position to handle the multi play service delivery and monetization needs arise due
to this new competition . These operators are looking for systems which could be future proof in terms of
access network, innovative offer bundling, real time charging and other convergent use cases mentioned
above.
As capex and opex are major factor for these operators, they always want to have comprehensive
turnkey solutions which could address all convergent use cases rather restricting on selected
functionalities or system. Unlike large MNO or MSO, it will be easy for these operators to migrate their
existing systems into new convergent CRM and billing framework. A true convergence solution thus
provides a strong value proposition, by not only reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) but also
introducing ROI via a future proof investment.
Additional Use cases - Expanding the convergent framework beyond charging and billing
As explained in the table 1.0, convergent solution within telecom and media industry is more synonymous
towards a centralized product catalog, online charging, single bill and unified customer hierarchy. If
closely look into, these convergent features or use cases have a common element within it, which is
tracking the 360 degree view of its relationship with customers across different services and channels.
In that respect, other than the use cases mentioned above, there are other aspects as well from a
convergent perspective within the business and operation support framework, which can enhance
operator’s capability in addressing and managing customer expectation. Few to name include AAA &
policy management, unified self-care portals, notification and alert management, and customer care. It
is also important for operators to make use of these convergent customer and service information to
develop and deploy its strategy towards new customer acquisition, content /OTT partner management
etc by bringing similar capabilities across campaigns, and partner management functions.
Table 1.1, below defines those functions within the O/BSS framework where supporting uses cases on
convergence are identified.
Table 1.1 –Convergent Billing Support functions
OSS/BSS Function Convergent Features
AAA and captive portal A true convergent AAA platform should be capable of handling
fixed-mobile convergence across different access topologies.
Single stack which could address multiple access network 3GPP
(GPRS, UMTS, 4G) and Non 3GPP (Wi-Fi, WiMAX, DSL, ADSL,
FTTX, iburst)
Compliance to 3GPP AAA standards to support internetworking
6. of non 3GPP access over 3GPP service; Mobile data offload for
example
Diameter/Radius based convergent charging and policy
management interface is another expected function
LDAP, EAP , TLS, TTLS based authentication support to handle
3GPP and Non 3GPP network access and authentication.
DHCP provision for dynamic and static IP address management
Captive portal with built in templates of static and dynamic pages
and having option for easy customization as per operators
requirement
Multi user profile management with admin profile option against
each individual subscription – A must have functionality within
Captive portal management – significant from multi login, multi
device perspective of Wi-Fi, home broadband and OTT services.
Proxy and relaying capabilities over Radius and Diameter for
addressing Fixed-Mobile as well as IP based convergence
Policy Management For ISP and MSO who offer fixed and wireless broadband
services, a convergent policy management is need of the hour to
help operators address innovative use cases like
o Service aware session based charging & policy control
o Device and location based access Restriction
o Parental Control
o Bill shock prevention –credit control, allowance , prepaid
o APN and Access network based polices
The function could offer convergent uses cases on policy
management viz.. Prepaid and postpaid, access agnostic and
access specific policies. Fixed (DSL, ADSL, FTTX), Mobile,
3GPP (GPRS, UMTS, LTE) and Non 3GPP services (Wi-Fi and
Wimax).
The function shall thus comply with 3GPP PCRF specification as
well as broadband –forum BPCF standards
Policy interfaces towards different network elements and touch
points viz.. IMS AF, AAA, NAS, PCEF and DPI means the policy
function shall support both Radius and Diameter interfaces.
The function shall have layered approach so that operators as
per their business requirements could easily enable or disable
the policy templates and interface points.
7. Wherever common policy implementation possible - across
wireless-wired or prepaid-postpaid spectrum, the system should
have options to allow define and implement those policies thus
avoiding redundancy.
Unified self-care portal with
multiple profiles and
integrated payment gateways
Convergence at Customer level is the key aspect of
convergence highlighted across this whitepaper. Convergent
charging, convergent billing and unified customer hierarchy as
well as single bill are prominent use cases to establish that fact.
A unified self-care platform for both prepaid and postpaid
segments as well as all quad play services is very key in that
respect - of both convergence as well as customer experience.
Provides a common platform for customer to access and
manage all his portfolio across diverse plans or service he
subscribed to .
Other prominent features within a unified self-care platform
should include calendar features, limit definition , setting
reminder, expiry notices on packs and plans subscribed– which
will enhance customers confidence with the operator and build a
more loyal relationship result more revenue.
Family accounts and corporate pooling are other features for
convergent self-care portal where admin or parent users will
define limit and add additional products to child users as per the
usage patterns.
Integrated payment gateways with PCI standards along with
support for different patterns of online payment - interactive and
non-interactive, tokenized etc.
Integrated work flow and
notification management
A convergent business and operation support system should
have enough flexibility by means of event management feature
to manage different events across various business processes
involved –credit limit expiry, payment, order generation, billing
etc.
The function should be part of a common framework which
should allows user to map specific set of actions against certain
set of . The framework shall allow operators to select events
and set actions which must be pre-configured viz...Send
notifications to subscribers, usage and payment reminder,
promotional offers etc. This information shall be able to be sent
8. through various channels - like e-mail, OSD, STB, E- mail,
Mobile SMS.
The framework shall allow the actions to be either synchronous
or processed as part of a schedule which means an option shall
be part of the system.
Contact Center & Customer
Interaction modules
Contact center provides the convergence of multiple interaction
channels; It is the capability within the contact center to offer
multiple channel based interactions call, Web , email and chat
Another aspect is the ability to address all subscribers or
customer interaction irrespective of the service and product
portfolio they subscriber to.
IVR, ACD , Web chat , integrated routing policies to avoid
conflict , access to unified customer repository and CTI interface
are those features required to be part of such a platform .
Campaign Management Campaign management and targeted marketing could make use
of the unified customer information provided as part of a
convergent solution –customer profile, bill, usage patterns,
payment patterns, balances, status, services and products so
that it could enable real time marketing initiatives and
campaigns.
Will benefit in the form of increased ARPU, upselling of new
services and also to generate loyalty among existing customers
SOA based charging,
ordering , customer
management framework for
OTT, Video Monetization
Convergent charging and billing solution as explained in the
introduction is a key factor in supporting channels like OTT and
IPTV services.
Operators understand the need to partner with OTT players and
video content providers so that they could protect their revenue
streams. The partnership brings a set of features and interface
from the convergent system perspective.
o Customer information exposed over an SOA framework
so that OTT players could verify the customer
credentials and balance /credit before provision the
requested service
o OTT and content partners also can also make use of
convergent unified customer profile information to
understand the buying and consumption patterns to
personalize the offerings.
9. o Similarly from a billing perspective the convergent
system should be capable of interfacing with external
applications like OTT and IPTV middleware to capture
the usage information of the services consumed so that
it can be consolidated in the single bill to customer.
Customer will receive a single bill across its services
irrespective of operator service or OTT services.
Partner Management and
Revenue share
From partner management of OTT /IPTV /Content providers,
operators need the system to support following business
requirements.
o Shared product catalog management
o Convergent billing as a service - MVNE
o Partner management and billing
o Reconciliation of bills. comparison of usage and dispute
management
Orchestrating disparate
provisioning requirements
across multi play service
request –
Handling multiple services, quad play, triple play services and
products across different customer types and partner chain
involves complex provisioning requirements. A convergent
provisioning feature shall be available with a flexible adapter
based on rule driven configuration to communicate with the
network elements and provision the service.
This could also include integration towards third party networks
and middleware systems where partners like OTT players are
involved.
The adapter as per the rules and configurations against various
services, region, device type, should interface with respective
network elements for execute the corresponding network -
specific commands as part of provisioning
Service and network agonistic
Mediation
A convergent mediation platform provides an enterprise-wide
platform which could help operators to address the billing
mediation, network mediation and data collection challenges
across different network elements and partner systems.
Act as the key entry point for network usage analysis where
usage CDR can be pushed to an analytical engine to extract key
customer and usage patterns and take appropriate actions to
stop revenue and customer churn
Act as a consolidation point towards all usage mediation,
10. requirements across multiple access technologies are IP, IMS,
traditional fixed line and circuit.
The mediation will also abstract billing, charging application from
data points which means reduced time to market for new data
sources and application.
The support features mentioned over table 1.1, are especially significant and will add value for the ISP
and MSOs, who always want to go for those systems which could support the end to end use cases
rather than point features and functionalities. A fully convergent operation and business support system
built around the convergent framework as mentioned in this whitepaper can help operators to achieve
both their primary and secondary objectives which are increase in revenue and a faster ROI respectively.
Conclusion
To roll out next generation digital services and to content with growing customer expectations, operators
across the world are looking for convergent solutions and that fact is evident from the recent research
report showing convergent charging implementation alone is projected for 14 Billion USD by 2017.
From an ISP or MSO perspective, an end to end convergent solution is what they could afford rather than
implementing point solutions. Hence, a business and operation support system which could provide the
convergent framework over customer hierarchy, product bundling, real time charging and single bill along
with other supporting functions across service -access delivery and support chain is the need of hour.
Biju M R
Telecom & Media OSS/ BSS –Architect & SME
Biju.vrindavan@gmail.com
+91 7768067700