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    Billing and Rating Overview - N

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    This document provides an overview of Amdocs Billing and its key components. It describes the customer hierarchy including the liability, invoicing, and subscriber levels. It also outlines the customer conceptual model and billing architecture. The key components discussed are the billing mediation gateway, acquisition and formatting, rater, product catalogue, customer service management, billing, and Gemini. It provides high-level descriptions of the roles and functions of each component in the billing process.

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    This document provides an overview of Amdocs Billing and its key components. It describes the customer hierarchy including the liability, invoicing, and subscriber levels. It also outlines the customer conceptual model and billing architecture. The key components discussed are the billing mediation gateway, acquisition and formatting, rater, product catalogue, customer service management, billing, and Gemini. It provides high-level descriptions of the roles and functions of each component in the billing process.

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    General Billing flow for Telecom Billing.

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    This document provides an overview of Amdocs Billing and its key components. It describes the customer hierarchy including the liability, invoicing, and subscriber levels. It also outlines the customer conceptual model and billing architecture. The key components discussed are the billing mediation gateway, acquisition and formatting, rater, product catalogue, customer service management, billing, and Gemini. It provides high-level descriptions of the roles and functions of each component in the billing process.

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    Billing and Rating Overview - N

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    Raj Nayak
    This document provides an overview of Amdocs Billing and its key components. It describes the customer hierarchy including the liability, invoicing, and subscriber levels. It also outlines the customer conceptual model and billing architecture. The key components discussed are the billing mediation gateway, acquisition and formatting, rater, product catalogue, customer service management, billing, and Gemini. It provides high-level descriptions of the roles and functions of each component in the billing process.

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    Amdocs Billing

    Overview

    Customer Hierarchy

    Customer Hierarchy

    Corporate
    Billing Account
    Billing Entity
    Subscriber

    Customer Conceptual Model

    Liability Level (BAN )


    Represent the liability entity:
    Liable for charges billed to the billing entities
    Allows payment allocation to:
    Specific invoices
    Account balance

    Up-to-date account balance


    Default Price Plan and discounts

    Customer Conceptual Model

    Invoicing Level (BEN)


    Represent the invoicing level charges & credits are captured for
    this entity
    Represent the payer
    Split of charges is flexible
    (OC/UC/RC , Call type , etc.)

    Customer Conceptual Model

    Subscriber Level
    Represent the user level (identified by
    product type and product Id:
    Basic price plan
    Additional/optional services

    Billing Architecture
    and its Components

    Side by Side Structure

    Each side sits


    on a
    totally
    separated
    machine
    To Communicate
    between
    applications,
    records are
    written to the
    A&C tables

    Product
    Catalogue

    Enabler DB

    Billing

    PP application

    Ensemble DB

    CSM
    DMS

    A&F
    Update
    Handlers
    Rater

    TRB

    EMS

    A&F
    GPRS

    Rater

    PI Extract
    Events Extract

    Rated
    Events
    (Guiding/Rating)

    Update Handler Extract

    Ensemble

    Enabler

    Product
    Catalog

    Update Handler Load

    Data Services

    MMS

    CSM

    PC Synchronization

    Usage Queries

    SMS
    CDR

    Central
    Customer
    Repository

    Billing

    Price Plan
    Data Collection & Mediation

    Current Services

    Voice
    CDR

    Amdocs Billing Mediation Gateway


    Amdocs Billing Mediation Gateway is
    responsible for:
    Collecting event records that arrive from the network
    or the mediation system
    Guiding the event to the relevant customer
    Reformatting and routing the events to the Amdocs
    Rating function.
    Providing the Amdocs Rating with accurate and
    billable information from a wide variety of network
    elements, including voice, data, and content
    applications.

    Acquisition and Formatting


    Enquires event records, formats and
    routes them to downstream systems
    Identifies customer entities associated
    with the event
    Guiding to the customer

    Rater
    Identifies specific services according to
    which the event should be rated e.g.
    Friends and family pack
    Guiding to Services

    Applies the rating scheme to the event


    according to definitions made in the
    product catalogue
    Free minutes
    Discounts

    Product Catalog

    The Product catalog serves as a single


    point of offer definition
    Support integrated solution

    Includes service, pricing, provisioning


    and equipment information

    Defines marketing rules for selling


    offers
    Possible offer combinations
    Customer eligibility
    Promotions

    Customer Service Management


    (CSM)
    Maintenance of customer details and services
    Consolidated, online view of customer
    Profile
    Products
    History

    Bill inquiries and adjustments


    Responsible for all online activities, including:
    Billing activities
    Financial activities
    Collection activities

    Billing
    Compiles, generates and summarizes all
    elements on the consolidated bill
    Recurring, usage and one-time charges, credits and
    adjustments
    Supports charges in arrears and in advance
    Discounts
    Terms and fees

    Supports flexible bill formats


    Bill data available online (actual bill image)

    Gemini

    Billing contd
    Complies with all tax laws in accordance
    with location and line of business
    Flexible cycle management
    Unlimited number of cycles

    Revenue assurance and quality assurance


    tools
    Invoice sampling
    Thresholds
    Audit & control tools

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