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i-Rater
A Comprehensive Rating Solution
for Wireline, Wireless, Content and IP services
i-Rater is a flexible, rule-based rating engine that allows
service providers to price Next Generation communications
services and complex business transactions and develop innovative
products and launch them within the shortest period of time.
The product provides a comprehensive rating for wireline (local,
long distance and SMS), wireless (GSM, 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi)
and IP (DSL, cable, IP-VPN and VoIP) services. i-Rater enables
higher margin revenue streams by making it easy to introduce
innovative and desirable services to the market quickly.
It can take as input, any type of event/transaction and its
charging parameters (in the form of rate plans/charge plans),
process them and produce the record of the processed event
as output. i-Rater can rate events either in a pre-paid or
post paid scenario and be used as a credit monitoring application
for post-paid customers.
It prices the services based on a multi-dimensional matrix
of rating parameters—duration, air-time, value of transaction,
per transaction instance, volume of data transferred and Quality
of Service. Customers can easily integrate the product with
their existing legacy, post-paid or pre-paid systems, in order
to enhance their rating capabilities.
i-Rater has achieved a breakthrough performance on the Sun
Solaris platform, ranking among the world’s fastest
rating engines. The Sun benchmark shows that i-Rater performs
50 times better than competing products and exponentially
reduces Total Cost of Ownership for large telecom service
providers.
Focus
i-Rater is targeted at providers of content, Next Gen, wireless,
wireline, content and IP services and organizations offering
Web-enabled customer self care.
Features
i-Rater offers customers the following features:
* unlimited rating criteria
* simultaneous rating of unlimited number of services
* cloning and versioning of rate plans and products
* powerful business reporting and auditing tools
Benefits
Based on proprietary In Memory Database technology and a real-time
processor, the state-of-the-art i-Rater brings a range of
benefits to telcos. These include:
- service and network independence capabilities that give
telcos the flexibility to implement complex and convergent
pricing schemes
- compatibility with multiple platforms, including the Windows,
Linux, Solaris and other environments
- extension of the legacy billing solution and seamless
integration with the existing BSS/OSS infrastructure of
the service provider/carrier
- creation of service bundles to obtain maximum market traction
- blending of new services with existing services to encourage
usage
- improvement in revenue generation through the ability
to support complex rating models and introduction of new
services at a rapid pace
- dynamic reconfiguring of rating of services during the
product life cycle, while rating existing voice products
- improvement in customer retention with personalized rate
plans
- provision of real-time, high performance ratings with
extreme flexibility
- lowering of TCO through reduced transaction-based licensing
costs and commodity system infrastructure
- integration with industry leading ERP, CRM and mediation
applications
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