BA-3JE15
Rating and Billing
Benefits of This Seminar
Product
BSCS iX Release 3
Seminar Code
BA-3JE15
Duration
5 days
Class size
6 - 8
Method
Lecture
Practical_25
Practical_50
Workshop
BSCS Knowledge
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
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This seminar provides information about the operation and processing of call data records and TAP files to produce billing documents for end-customers.

This seminar however does not cover the prepaid functionality and High Availability features of BSCS.
Objectives

Operate and handle rating and billing processes in BSCS

Identify the main database tables that are affected during the processing of files in BSCS

Analyze error and log files

Assess output files of the main back-end applications of BSCS

Audience
Analysts and Consultants, Application Support, Billing, Rating, System Integrators
Prerequisites

UNIX and SQL skills are required

The knowledge level of the following seminars is required:

ESY-1JE12 BSCS iX Release 3 Basic, or SY-1JE12 BSCS iX Release 3 Overview

TA-1JE12 Rate Plans

TA-2JE42 Cost Control

TA-2JE12 System Scenarios

Topics
Overview of Rating and Billing

Introduces the architecture of Rating and Billing

Describes the general overview of the processing workflow and the tasks of the back-end applications


Prerequisite and Preparation

Identifies the necessary environment variables, main database tables, and configuration files to set up before operating BSCS

Defines the concept of inter-application communication via DaTA and Message Profile

Offers hands-on experience with creating Message Profiles


Data Extraction
Provides hands-on exercises to operate the back-end applications that extract information from the database in order to rate customers in real-time.

Data Collection
Explains how records from the switch are collected and handled in BSCS.

Rating
Provides hands-on exercises to operate the back-end applications that handles rating and re-rating of records for home subscribers.

Cost Control
Provide hands-on exercises to operate the back-end applications that handles cost control services, which are used to apply discounts or to control the spending of a customer.

Billing

Illustrates how the billing application works

Provides hands-on exercises to create billing documents for home subscribers

Identifies purposes of immediate billing and threshold billing