Message Processing
Your business rules dictate when and how usage is collected and billed. SuiteSolution validates every record to assure rating accuracy – ultimately increasing your ROI.
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Message Processing: The responsibility to gather and format raw xDRs into billable records begins here.
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Automatically polls switches to retrieve daily usage, handling multiple feeds simultaneously
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Automatically runs validation scripts to monitor duplicate files or duplicate sequence numbers of raw CDRs, as well as the pattern, size, and frequency of those expected files
Mediation: Processes common 1.X Data, AMA, CIBER, EMI, FXIP, HSPA, PCS, GSM, IPTV, MTX, SMS and a host of customer specific and proprietary formats.
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Normalizes switch-recorded data into formatted records, for example IP packets are converted into AMA records
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Accepts comma delimited, text-based, fixed- and variable-length, binary-based and proprietary formats
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Automatically filters errors for review, remedy, and reprocessing
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Generates an automated Daily Usage Summary email report listing errors and exceptions
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Controls the electronic flow of outcollect usage sent to clearinghouses: roaming, wholesale and CABS
Usage Pricing: Calculations are defined by your business rules and controlled by true/false decisions used to attach complex pricing formulas to xDRs.
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Prices can be easily cloned, modified, future-dated, saved and reused
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Supports strict version control, the setup of ‘effective date' expirations, and testing off-production
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Accommodates rounding, minimum/maximums, fractional or duration-based pricing
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Import/export pricing to ASCII files for off-system backup or source control
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Validations include: database ID, company code, user ID audit trail, pricing version ID date/time stamps
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Rating: Real-time rating engine processes any measurable usage type: wireline, cellular, content, data, IP, video
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Rules-based tariff editor accommodates an unlimited number of rating schemes
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Flexible usage rating by type, customer, bill group, market or GEO location
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Pre-paid and post-paid usage, packages, bundles, and promotions
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Efficiently rate recurring, non-recurring charges, discounts, peak, off-peak, pro-rated, time of day, duration, events, volume
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Usage rated daily provides near real-time view of billed and unbilled toll in Web Care or CRM
Revenue Assurance: Capturing revenue for every usage record is the lifeblood of your business. This begins with making sure every usage record is collected, rated, linked to the customer and most importantly – included on the monthly bill.
Trending: Conducted throughout the billing process, trending reports assure consistent, anticipated revenue.
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Identifies missing CDR files by tracking sequence number, date and usage ID
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Prompts investigation to determine reason and account for missing data
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Multiple trending reports support verification of:
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Balances brought forward from the previous cycle
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Comparison of grand totals to trial balance and general ledger
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Revenue sent to and received from clearinghouses to verify settlements and reconcile incollect calls