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Frameworx Application: Billing Event Processing

Category: (2) TAM Application Type

Application Identifier: 5.20.1

Maturity Level: 4

Overview

Billing Event Processing includes collection, guiding, distribution, mediation, enrichment, analysis, summarization, and correlation of billing event records.  These functions are required to support both file and event based processing.

Billing events may originate from many sources.  A primary source of billing events is the Usage Management function.  The Usage Management function will provide information produced by various network elements to Billing Event Processing.  Events produced in the Usage Management function may be used as:

1.    Measurements for calculating the charge  of purchased products offerings where the price is a usage price type. The events may report measurements expressed in various units (bandwidth, duration, quantity, message vs. measured, etc.). 

2.    Purchase indicators that indicates to Billing that a product offering has been “ordered” by a customer

Other sources of billing event records are:

 

Events to be rated are distributed to the appropriate rating system.  Once rated, the events are returned from Rating to Billing Events Management and from there distributed to Bill Calculation. Rated events may be used by Balance Management to affect a balance.

Events that indicate a roaming activity are distributed to outside service providers.

Functionality

Billing Event Processing includes:

Supported Business Services

(2) TAM Application Type Billing Event Processing

Appears on these diagrams:

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Issues

  • Application Framework 12.0 Addition

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This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model


Created from the TM Forum Model Frameworx 16.0.0 on 6/13/2016 at 22:31