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.
