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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 />

11 <strong>CSG</strong> <strong>INTERCONNECT</strong><br />

• 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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Customer Interaction Management<br />

Customer Communication Center<br />

• Customer Profile<br />

• Interaction Management<br />

• Event Management<br />

Interactive Messaging<br />

• AgentHub<br />

• Automated Collections & Payments<br />

• Appointment Notification<br />

• Proactive Customer Care Notifications<br />

• Customer Surveys<br />

• Interactive Marketing<br />

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• Enterprise Solutions<br />

Output Solutions<br />

• Print and Mail<br />

• Electronic Presentment and Payment<br />

• Customer Service<br />

• Viewing and Archival Solutions<br />

Analytics and Intelligence<br />

Customer Intelligence Platform<br />

• Intelligent Collections<br />

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