Category: (1) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 8.3
Maturity Level: 4
Overview
Wholesale billing applications include a variety of
capabilities. Traditionally this area included inter-carrier settlements
capabilities and this was later extended to interconnect billing applications.
In today’s competitive markets and complex value chains, it has expanded further
to include among others Roaming, wholesale operators, resellers, Mobile Virtual
Network Operators, Content Providers and E-Commerce. There is now an array of
applications in the area providing charging, billing, and settlement
capabilities on a raw data basis, individual transaction basis and bulk basis
across a variety of services and platforms. These applications work across a
variety of platforms and support a wide range of services, preferably in one
single system. Wholesale applications need to adhere to international standards
such as TAP and RAP files, which are processed in Roaming
solutions.
Functionality
- Reference Data Creation and Management
- Product and Service Definition - Definition of
products and services, pricing schemes, partner entities and contracts into
the system. Easy uploading of reference data from external sources such as XML
files.
- Partners' accounting - Partners’ accounting
activities (Partner event processing)
- Partners Business Event Processing - Processing
the events generated by the partners’ business activities for invoicing and
payment purposes.
- Error Management
- Automatic and manual handling of records found in
error, mass correction and re-rating of events.
- Partner Invoice management
- Accurate, flexible bi-directional invoicing for
various settlement periods.
- Settlement management
- Oversee the Partners’ accounting activities.
Provide monitoring tools.
- Handling of payments
- Logging and tracking of full or partial payments.
- Disputes management
- Monitoring tools - Automated tools to ease and
expedite dispute management.
Supported Business Services
- Interface with other financial management systems
such as the general ledger.
- Report and Statements
- Tools for the analysis of the information
available within the system such as accumulated charges, rated usage,
etc.
