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<strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong><br />
Leading the World in Interconnect Billing<br />
© 2011 <strong>CSG</strong> Systems International, Inc. Confidential and Proprietary 1<br />
Copyright © 2011 <strong>CSG</strong> Systems International, Inc. and/or its affiliates (“<strong>CSG</strong>”). All rights reserved.
CONTENTS<br />
03 EXCELLENCE IN <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong> BILLING<br />
• The solution at a glance<br />
• Recognize business changes & challenges<br />
07 OPTIMIZED <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong> BILLING<br />
• Improving your Interconnect operations<br />
• Managing complex services & partnerships<br />
• Increasing speed and productivity<br />
• Cross-portfolio benefits<br />
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• Interconnect core<br />
• Optional subsystems<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong><br />
As the telecoms value chain becomes more complex, the availability<br />
of new IP and Content services is creating new revenue streams, not<br />
just for retail billing but also for inter-operator billing and partner<br />
billing. Securing these new revenues, while managing your existing<br />
voice business, means developing the capability to recognize, rate,<br />
bill and justify the bill to your partners for a much wider range of<br />
products and services.<br />
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<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is recognized as the world’s most comprehensive<br />
and powerful settlements system, handling every kind of traffic,<br />
from simple voice to the most advanced content and data services,<br />
in a single, highly-integrated platform. It helps operators across the<br />
globe to maintain or increase profit margins and comply with the<br />
broadest range of global standards.<br />
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<strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong>:<br />
Excellence in Interconnect Billing<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is the world’s leading<br />
interconnect software solution with over<br />
200 customers spanning all telecoms<br />
market segments across the globe<br />
including Orange, Telefonica, France<br />
<strong>Telecom</strong>, Vodafone and Reliance India.<br />
These customers select <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect<br />
as the natural choice to improve<br />
efficiencies in their wholesale operations<br />
and manage the latest content and<br />
value-added data services.<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect helps organizations to<br />
revolutionize their end-to-end interconnect<br />
business processes; formerly passive interconnect<br />
systems are transformed into real-time business<br />
management engines that deliver true control.<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect offers advanced settlement<br />
functions, web based partner self-care, flexible<br />
dispute management features, pre-packaged<br />
integration with popular ERP systems, and<br />
improved IT management to help operators<br />
streamline their operational overhead and cope<br />
with the constant changes and challenges in their<br />
business models.<br />
Lower Total Cost of Ownership:<br />
• Removes the need for multiple wholesale<br />
billing systems by providing a fully<br />
convergent settlement system for<br />
traditional, IP and content services<br />
• Reduce unnecessary out-payments<br />
• Enable a high degree of partner self-care<br />
to cut costs<br />
• A settlement system which allows more<br />
efficient negotiation<br />
• Achieve a quick return on investment<br />
Increase Productivity:<br />
• Streamline and automate day-to-day<br />
labor intensive tasks<br />
• Seamlessly integrate with other business<br />
and operational systems<br />
• Up-to-date information to enable<br />
informed business decision making<br />
• Manage system with a minimum of<br />
resources and effort<br />
Increase Revenue and Improve Cash Flow:<br />
• Create new revenue streams from the<br />
introduction of IP / content services<br />
• Reconcile operator and partner invoices<br />
to a high level of accuracy<br />
• Enable quicker settlements and efficient<br />
management of disputes<br />
• Rapidly introduce new products and<br />
services without changes to the system<br />
• Improve cash flow by invoicing partners<br />
on time<br />
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THE SOLUTION AT A GLANCE<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is a highly cost-effective billing<br />
and settlement solution that enables you to<br />
administer traditional interconnect agreements<br />
and advanced IP/content agreements in a single<br />
system. The system can be readily adapted to suit<br />
your business processes and supports the<br />
following key functionality out of the box:<br />
• Management of all types of wholesale<br />
agreements including IP / Content<br />
agreements with all types of partners<br />
• Support for simple and complex rating<br />
techniques including advanced revenue<br />
sharing and multi-party settlement<br />
• Support for cross product / partner<br />
discounts, advanced volume based rating<br />
• Comprehensive non-usage, recurring and<br />
one off charging<br />
• Flexible summarization of traffic for<br />
better reporting and analysis<br />
• Flexible financial summarization and<br />
automated posting of pre-estimates,<br />
estimates and actuals<br />
• Real-time web-based partner access /<br />
self-care<br />
• Multi-franchise capability with full<br />
security<br />
• Automated reconciliation of billing and<br />
EDR data<br />
• Powerful invoicing capabilities that<br />
support established ERP systems<br />
• Process distribution capabilities on<br />
parallel low-budget hardware platforms<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is a convergent wholesale billing<br />
and settlement solution that supports a range of<br />
business models and covers the multi-party<br />
settlement requirements of operators wishing to<br />
partner with a variety of companies such as:<br />
• Fixed operators, switched / switch-less<br />
resellers<br />
• Mobile operators 2G, 2.5G and 3G,<br />
MVNOs<br />
• International carriers including those<br />
using ITU principles<br />
• Cable/DSL operators<br />
• VoIP and messaging providers<br />
• Content partners, content aggregators,<br />
merchants, sponsors, advertisers<br />
• ISPs, WISPs<br />
• GRX exchanges<br />
“We selected <strong>CSG</strong>’s Interconnect v7<br />
because of <strong>CSG</strong>’s experience in the<br />
international market. <strong>CSG</strong> has a proven<br />
track record in delivering turnkey<br />
solutions of a similar nature to ours.<br />
This was an important factor for us.”<br />
Justin Brochocki,<br />
Strategic Sourcing Manager<br />
TelstraClear<br />
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Operators need to respond to change faster<br />
than ever to combat declining voice revenues<br />
and enable growing numbers of next generation<br />
services. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect enables operators to<br />
rapidly enter new markets, improve cash flows,<br />
and reduce bad debt through streamlined and<br />
rapid billing cycles, tariff updates and<br />
settlement procedures.<br />
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RECOGNIZING BUSINESS CHANGES & CHALLENGES<br />
Flexibility: The large number of interconnect and<br />
content partner agreements means that operators<br />
need to have flexible business processes, systems<br />
and control structures in order to manage their<br />
operations effectively. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect offers the<br />
inherent flexibility to adjust agreements to market<br />
conditions, change pricing and revenue share, setup<br />
partners and services, analyze liabilities and<br />
opportunities, and provide consistency of network<br />
facilities among carriers quickly and easily.<br />
Automation: As interconnect arrangements and<br />
product definitions become more complex,<br />
automation becomes an increasingly important<br />
factor. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect allows the automation of<br />
wholesale billing processes including agreement<br />
management, trading and routing, rate loading,<br />
price management, invoicing and settlements,<br />
financial interfaces and reconciliation.<br />
Rapid reaction to change: Operators need to<br />
respond to change faster than ever to combat<br />
declining voice revenues and enable growing<br />
numbers of next generation services. <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect enables operators to rapidly enter<br />
new markets, improve cash flows, and reduce bad<br />
debt through streamlined and rapid billing cycles,<br />
tariff updates and settlement procedures.<br />
Business insight: Transparency of interconnect<br />
operations, including end-to-end audit trail and<br />
drill down through financial data allow for an<br />
informed approach to the management of<br />
wholesale agreements. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect gives you<br />
visibility of the whole interconnect operation so<br />
that business decisions can be made which<br />
maximize profitability.<br />
Cost control: <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is a highly flexible<br />
system that allows operators to ensure that the<br />
claims that are made on them from partners are<br />
accurate, allowing them to effectively manage<br />
costs, revenues and margins. With <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect, cash flow can be improved and cost<br />
of ownership lowered compared to in-house or<br />
proprietary systems.<br />
Regulatory compliance: <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect<br />
allows operators to address new charging models<br />
and regulatory compliance mandates with minimal<br />
disruptions to operations or need for IT<br />
development<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is a highly flexible system that<br />
allows operators to ensure that the claims that are<br />
made on them from partners are accurate,<br />
allowing them to effectively manage costs,<br />
revenues and margins.<br />
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<strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong>:<br />
Optimized Interconnect Billing<br />
Improving Your Interconnect Operations<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect increases productivity by<br />
optimizing the process of settling invoices or<br />
payments received from inter-carrier partners. The<br />
single, consolidated platform handles all the data<br />
in the network and supports any type of traffic,<br />
whether it is voice, mobile, data, IP, value-added<br />
services or content. This provides all interconnect<br />
functions with consistent and reliable source data<br />
and a clear picture of finance, performance and<br />
market information.<br />
Accelerating the Billing Cycle<br />
To help eliminate delays in revenue recognition<br />
and improve cash flow. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect removes<br />
cumbersome, repetitive administrative processes<br />
associated with generating interconnect<br />
statements – loading of tariff plans and rates,<br />
filtering, editing and enrichment of EDRs, service<br />
and tariff changes, and production of legal account<br />
documents– generating invoices and statements<br />
quickly and assuring that they are more accurate,<br />
controlled and auditable.<br />
Powerful Rate Management<br />
Quickly load tariffs, communicate changes, spot<br />
discrepancies, and make amendments more<br />
accurately than ever before. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect<br />
offers a bulk load facility that automates the<br />
process of updating carrier rates and codes via a<br />
graphical user interface, eliminating the<br />
discrepancies often incurred in manual inputting<br />
of complex tariff rates and delays in<br />
communicating changes. This is essential to the<br />
accurate verification and settlement of invoices.<br />
Effective Dispute Management<br />
Settlement of interconnect charges between<br />
operators can be a complicated and timeconsuming<br />
task. <strong>CSG</strong>’s Automated Reconciliation<br />
Manager allows better cash flow management by<br />
ensuring amounts payable and receivable can be<br />
actively traced and monitored at different stages<br />
in the settlement process. The system also<br />
identifies areas of dispute and suggests ways to<br />
resolve them. This eliminates lengthy<br />
reconciliation periods, offers better resource<br />
utilization, and lowers operating costs.<br />
Streamlining Invoice Production<br />
Streamlining invoice production is an integral part<br />
of <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect by enabling flexible<br />
management of billing periods to ensure<br />
maximum invoicing and cash flow flexibility. For<br />
example, billing periods can be segregated into<br />
revenue and expense elements. This means that<br />
the revenue elements can be closed off and<br />
invoiced immediately, eliminating the need to wait<br />
for outstanding rating information to be in place<br />
before the billing period can be closed.<br />
Flexibility to Support All Business Models<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect supports all types of business<br />
models including ITU settlements, destination and<br />
distance based charging, bilateral and volume<br />
based agreements, advanced revenue sharing,<br />
refile, international resale, direct, cascade and<br />
indirect billing as well as nonevent billing for<br />
network services such as, leased lines, shared<br />
infrastructure billing, co-location fees, Wholesale<br />
Local Loop Unbundling, subscription based content<br />
and bit stream access. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect also<br />
caters for a number of market-specific business<br />
processes including Element Based Conveyance<br />
(UK), Carrier Price List (UK), Codifi (Spain), and Pisa<br />
Mexico).<br />
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Managing Complex Services &<br />
Partnerships<br />
Actively Manage Interconnect Agreements<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect enables the active management<br />
of interconnect agreements. The system offers the<br />
complete transparency needed to monitor and<br />
drive performance of each business relationship<br />
through real-time business rules. This can lead to<br />
the creation of new agreements, pricing strategies,<br />
and incentives and the resolution of issues such as<br />
unprofitable agreements, bad debt and<br />
inadequate service provision.<br />
Drive Revenue through Next Generation<br />
Billing<br />
To make next generation services truly profitable<br />
operators need high levels of billing flexibility, data<br />
quality and rapid service deployment. The system<br />
offers unifying technology to manage both<br />
traditional and new interconnect models–<br />
including value-based billing, capacity based,<br />
recurring charges, IP peering arrangements, GPRS<br />
roaming, multi-franchise support, multi-party<br />
settlements and revenue-sharing agreements for<br />
partners, sponsors and advertisers – all from a<br />
single convergent system.<br />
Reducing Costs of Managing Partners<br />
A single point of contact is essential to the efficient<br />
management of a growing number of partners.<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect provides a secure web portal<br />
that allows partners to manage their own<br />
accounts, query their agreement details, and make<br />
statement and traffic enquiries. This significantly<br />
cuts the costs of dealing with queries and issues<br />
and helps to economically manage a large number<br />
of interconnect and content partners.<br />
Launching Innovative New Services<br />
The challenge for operators is to provision new<br />
services as quickly and cost-effectively as possible<br />
without the need to perform complex and<br />
expensive system enhancements. <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect offers powerful rating, tariffing and<br />
discounting capabilities for traffic, recurring<br />
charges and one off events, allowing the definition<br />
testing and launch of attractive and innovative<br />
products to market faster than competitors, and<br />
ensure that the network is optimally used to<br />
maximize product margins.<br />
Revenue Assurance Controls<br />
Powerful task recording and revenue assurance<br />
controls manage the integrity of tariff data and<br />
monitor performance, allowing audit control, SOX<br />
compliance and integrity reporting. This also<br />
allows billing managers to ensure that billing<br />
accuracy is maintained during the introduction of<br />
new services, pricing structures and partners.<br />
“<strong>CSG</strong>’s Interconnect billing<br />
solution has been selected for its<br />
proven capabilities in simplifying<br />
billing and reconciliation and we<br />
are confident that our investment<br />
will yield greater interconnect<br />
profitability and improved<br />
network performance.”<br />
Tariq Rashid,<br />
CIO of Mobilink<br />
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Increasing Speed and Productivity<br />
Managing Complex Services & Partnerships<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is designed to enhance<br />
productivity. Features include Smart Re-pricing,<br />
which automatically tracks reference data changes<br />
and offers Summary-level Re-pricing if<br />
appropriate. New reference data management<br />
features include Common Rate Books, Overrides,<br />
Multi-row Delete / Authorize and additional Online<br />
views (Pending / Authorized / Both). In<br />
addition, the correction of errors assists users in<br />
actively resolving issues.<br />
Sophisticated Reporting and Analysis<br />
Powerful standard reporting functionality ensures<br />
that decisions are made based upon timely and<br />
accurate information. End to end billing<br />
information, both summary and itemised and all<br />
reference data is available for reporting. A<br />
Business Objects Universe is provided, allowing<br />
standard and custom reporting using the industry<br />
standard Crystal Reports. In addition, a<br />
documented semantic layer provides access to all<br />
information, enabling the production of customerspecific<br />
reports using other third-party reporting<br />
tools.<br />
Interconnect also uses advanced techniques, such<br />
as compression, to keep storage costs to a<br />
minimum. Users can specify how data should be<br />
compressed, and at what level, before export<br />
takes place. This greatly reduces data storage<br />
needs– helping not only to increase the efficiency<br />
of the process but also to reduce overall costs of<br />
ownership.<br />
Wholesale Business Management<br />
The <strong>CSG</strong> Wholesale Business Management<br />
portfolio offers a broad range of complementary<br />
products to support accurate wholesale billing and<br />
settlement using Interconnect. It provides<br />
OptimiZed Routing functions to maximize<br />
wholesale margins, Content Partner Management<br />
to support emerging requirements such as<br />
revenue sharing and multi-party settlement for<br />
IP/Content services and Contract Management to<br />
support rapidly changing wholesale agreements<br />
and rates. All fully integrated with enterprise<br />
standard reporting, pre-processing and mediation<br />
capabilities.<br />
Highly Scalable System<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect is highly scalable and has been<br />
benchmarked to process over 1 billion CDRs in an<br />
8 hour window. This high performance also scales<br />
downwards on lower volumes of data. The system<br />
offers increased speed of both processing and data<br />
loading. For data loading, integrated bulk loaders<br />
run as server components, allowing the processing<br />
to occur on the powerful multi-CPU server, but<br />
retaining full validation by common components<br />
shared with the GUI interface.<br />
Lowering Your Storage & Hardware Costs<br />
The ability to deploy additional rating engines that<br />
run on lower cost hardware provides a costeffective<br />
and readily scalable solution. <strong>CSG</strong><br />
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"Through Interconnect Digicel has the<br />
capability to charge other interexchange and<br />
local exchange carriers without delay while<br />
automatically reconciling our own invoices<br />
with their incoming bills. There is a minimum<br />
requirement for staff to support the process<br />
since everything is handled by the system. As<br />
a result we can keep our operational overhead<br />
relatively low without impacting our efficiency<br />
in settling with other carriers." – Jermaine<br />
Nicolas, Interconnect Billing Executive, Digicel<br />
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<strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong><br />
Wholesale Billing and Settlement<br />
Manager<br />
At the heart of <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect lies the<br />
Settlement Manager, which offers powerful<br />
convergent interconnect rating and<br />
settlement features essential to the effective<br />
management of your interconnect<br />
operations. Combined with powerful<br />
modeling capabilities, you can intuitively<br />
manage the connectivity with other operators<br />
and business partners and the rating of all<br />
types of event and non-event traffic items to<br />
be exchanged.<br />
Reference Data Management<br />
All the repetitive tasks of loading and maintaining<br />
reference data for each agreement are simplified.<br />
The system offers an integrated bulk loader, a<br />
reference data API for integrating adjunct software<br />
and flexible data management capabilities. This<br />
significantly reduces the amount of data<br />
maintenance required and is essential for operators<br />
with large or growing numbers of agreements<br />
operating in an environment of constant change.<br />
Convergent Wholesale Rating<br />
It is essential to respond rapidly to changes in<br />
agreements, rates and business models to ensure<br />
that billing accuracy is not compromised. <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect is a single convergent solution<br />
supporting event and non-event rating that offers<br />
the inherent flexibility to manage frequent changes<br />
to individual calls and ‘billable events’ including<br />
rated traffic, ad hoc charges, commissions,<br />
discounts, revenue share, traffic and volume<br />
agreements, etc.<br />
Accurate Rate Changes<br />
As tariff rates frequently change, operators need<br />
the flexibility to update and amend rates accurately<br />
and prevent errors and delays in realising<br />
interconnect revenues. The system offers<br />
intelligent re-pricing features that actively identify<br />
records for which rates have changed and<br />
automatically schedules re-pricing work flow for<br />
these records, minimizing the opportunities for<br />
users to make errors.<br />
Rapid Statement Generation<br />
Speed up cash flow and statement generation by<br />
exploiting Flexible Billing periods. <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect<br />
enables the Billing Period to be segregated into<br />
Statement Type, Revenue, and Expense elements.<br />
This allows the revenue element to be closed off<br />
and settled immediately without having to wait for<br />
the cost side of the billing period to be rated and<br />
closed.<br />
Discounting And Special Charges<br />
React more quickly to market changes using the<br />
range of flexible and userdefinable discount plans.<br />
Discount traffic can be defined in detail by traffic<br />
types and data driven selection of traffic<br />
summaries, discounts can link between different<br />
network operators and across multiple periods. It is<br />
also possible to define where in the Billing Report<br />
details of discounts should be included.<br />
Data Summarization<br />
The storage of unnecessary and duplicated data can<br />
be significantly reduced with <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect. The<br />
system’s flexible architecture enables users to<br />
specify how data should be summarized and at<br />
what level, to cut data storage needs. Also, this<br />
enables users to query summary records based on<br />
any criteria, guarantee data recoverability, view<br />
meaningful revenue assurance statistics, and<br />
ensure consistent batch throughput.<br />
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Multi-Party Settlement<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect allows operators to maximize<br />
their profit from the delivery of services offered to<br />
subscribers and partners over new network<br />
technologies, service delivery platforms, and open<br />
infrastructure gateways. The system enables multiparty<br />
and multi-point settlements between an<br />
unlimited number and range of partners, including<br />
managing the tiering of partners, different billing<br />
arrangements and complex revenue sharing.<br />
Smart Error Management<br />
The <strong>CSG</strong> solution helps operators to be more<br />
efficient and productive by eliminating laborintensive<br />
processes of manually correcting<br />
reference data errors. Using Smart Error<br />
Management technology, data errors can be rapidly<br />
managed and corrected, to maximize billable<br />
revenue and control the auditing of all changes to<br />
EDRs.<br />
Interconect Reporting<br />
Access to critical business information is needed to<br />
effectively manage cost, revenue and margin for all<br />
interconnect partners. Standard reports are<br />
provided to meet regulatory needs, manage costs,<br />
audit billing, predict traffic data trends and issue<br />
statements. The system also provides direct and<br />
seamless access to external reporting products such<br />
as Crystal Reports.<br />
Full Rating Support<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect offers full rating of data<br />
(e.g.,SMS) and content (e.g.,MMS) traffic, in<br />
addition to traditional voice traffic for a variety of<br />
different scenarios including multi-step and multicomponent<br />
rating rules. Matrix Rating offers the<br />
ability to perform advanced rating, using a<br />
combination of user-defined fields. This is<br />
extremely useful when it comes to introducing new<br />
products and services where rating variables<br />
cannot be anticipated in advance.<br />
Advanced Revenue Sharing<br />
Revenue share agreements for wholesale content<br />
billing are becoming far more complex, as a result<br />
of highly involved tariffing, personalized content,<br />
and performance-based agreements. <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect offers advanced revenue share<br />
capabilities, including flexible weighting of revenueshares<br />
to encourage partners, this addresses<br />
regional interconnect variants and next-generation<br />
content services.<br />
Volume Based Rating<br />
The Volume Based Rating feature enables<br />
operators to gain or give incentives to partners<br />
based on the volume of data transacted over a<br />
given period. It caters for multi-conditional volume<br />
thresholds and provides the ability to apply penalty<br />
rates based on a range of options. Usage thresholds<br />
can also be specified as a percentage of criteria,<br />
e.g. commitment is that 20% of traffic should be<br />
mobile.<br />
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Optional Subsystems<br />
<strong>CSG</strong> understands that the interconnect needs<br />
of operators differ according to their market<br />
and product sets. In addition to the core<br />
product, <strong>CSG</strong> Interconnect consists of a set of<br />
subsystems that can be tailored around your<br />
particular needs.<br />
Pre-Processing Manager<br />
The Pre-processing Manager actively collects data<br />
from network elements or mediation systems<br />
through advanced acquisition features. It offers a<br />
high degree of data filtering and manipulation<br />
through its advanced data management<br />
and business logic processes.<br />
• Data validation<br />
• EDR enrichment and transformation<br />
• EDR filtering and editing<br />
Partner Relationship Manager<br />
The Partner Relationship Manager offers the<br />
infrastructure for secure online access to <strong>CSG</strong><br />
Interconnect and a high degree of partner self-care.<br />
The portal allows partners to access up-to-date and<br />
reliable information to query their agreement<br />
details and view their transactions.<br />
• Secure partner self-care Web portal<br />
• View agreement details<br />
• Drilldown from summary to rated EDRs<br />
• Up-to-date partner information on<br />
• rated events<br />
• Secure profile and publication process<br />
• for partner managers<br />
• Support for refund management<br />
International Settlement<br />
The International Settlement Manager provides a<br />
common framework for international operators<br />
to model international agreements, including<br />
traditional ITU, refile, hubbing, and other routebased<br />
interconnect agreements. The system offers<br />
a high degree of flexibility enabling entry into<br />
profitable agreements with a wide variety of<br />
partners.<br />
• Full route-based/total accounting rate<br />
billing<br />
• Support for refile, hubbing re-origination,<br />
and buy and sell rates<br />
• Bi-lateral billing management<br />
• Inbound and outbound declarations and<br />
invoices (electronic or manual)<br />
• Verification between declared and<br />
measured traffic aids in detecting traffic<br />
under-declarations and eliminates revenue<br />
leakage<br />
• Integrated net settlement statement to<br />
net revenue<br />
Automated Reconciliation Manager<br />
The Automated Reconciliation Manager is a<br />
powerful tool that can assist with the rapid<br />
resolution of disputes. It is designed to meet a wide<br />
variety of reconciliation models and automates the<br />
process of comparing interconnect charge<br />
information from multiple interconnect systems. It<br />
enables information to be compared at multiple<br />
levels of detail, ranging from the comparison of<br />
billing summaries to the comparison of EDRs. This<br />
allows for significantly reduced settlement times<br />
and improves the accuracy of interconnect charges.<br />
• Traffic event based reconciliation<br />
• Revenue event based reconciliation<br />
• Revenue summary based reconciliation<br />
• Fuzzy mapping controls (e.g. match<br />
• part of A or B number)<br />
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Financial Manager<br />
Interconnect Financial Manager complements the<br />
Interconnect suite, offering invoice generation,<br />
design and control. It also provides user defined<br />
data aggregation and mapping, customized data<br />
layouts, account tracking and management control<br />
of ERP Interfaces.<br />
• Generation and control of balance and<br />
cash flow<br />
• Pre-defined and user-defined transactions<br />
• User definable alarms and notifications, e-<br />
mail and SMS<br />
• Group and User advance payment<br />
administration (pre-pay)<br />
• Support for SAP, Oracle or other ERP<br />
system<br />
• Secure (https) web based graphical user<br />
interface<br />
Recurring Charges<br />
Recurring Charges Manager provides for charging<br />
and settlement of agreements that are not based<br />
on events, such as leased lines and co-location fees.<br />
It provides comprehensive support for nonevent<br />
billing including billing in advance or arrears, early<br />
cancellation including pro-rata repayment/penalty<br />
charging as well as flexible recurring charge periods<br />
ranging from days to months or years.<br />
• Multi-dimensional rating<br />
• Tiered, threshold and capped rates<br />
• Supplementary agreement information<br />
• Calculation of recurring charges tiered<br />
by event volumes<br />
Contract Manager<br />
Typically the data from a single rate sheet can<br />
easily take two weeks to load by hand, and there<br />
will be errors. Contract Manager can load a rate<br />
sheet in just a few minutes and with 100%<br />
accuracy. Rapid and automatic loading of buy rate<br />
sheets into Interconnect. Analysis of rate sheets to<br />
quickly identify changes to dial plans and rate<br />
increases. The rates can be replicated across<br />
multiple business units and products as required.<br />
Rounding options can be defined and a Revenue<br />
share value can be applied. The following data<br />
types are loaded.<br />
• Destinations (tiers)<br />
• Network addresses(CNP – number<br />
prefixes)<br />
• Rating rules – who gets paid or pays<br />
• Rating calendars<br />
• Rates<br />
“An upgrade to Interconnect v7 from <strong>CSG</strong><br />
International will improve Indosat's<br />
ability to accurately and cost effectively<br />
bill and settle, with all its national and<br />
international partners, for the full range<br />
of services it offers, from basic telephony<br />
to the most advanced next generation<br />
services." -- Azinul J Adrian, VP of IT, Fixed<br />
Access Division, Indosat<br />
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