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Part Three: How to do it in Practice
Many operators have both pre- and post-paid systems acting separately. To build a more cost-efficient convergent system, these should be more tightly integrated. This, in turn, puts requirements on the functionality and scalability. For example, the system could be built like this: The IN-based real-time prepaid system manages rate plans and subscriptions, and handles the real-time rating and balance management. Through real-time APIs the system interacts with real-time and IP based value-added services, such as RingBackTone, MissedCall, WiFi and e-commerce. CDRs and balance statements are sent to the post-paid billing system when required, and communication with CRM is ensured with EAI. The aim is to get a single set of services and a single subscriber database to decrease operational costs, and ability to react fast to gain a competitive advantage in the market. CBOSS is an exhibitor at Billing Systems 2005,
running consecutively for over 12 years this prestigious event is well
recognised as the largest and most important billing, CRM & revenue
management date in the calendar. Billing
Systems exhibition and conference takes place in
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