N2B REVENUE ASSURANCE

 

Taking RA to the next level - Towards Excellence

ZIRA RA Approach is a holistic approach to revenue assurance, capturing more value from optimized automated solution. Our RA encompasses every step in the revenue process, integrates the revenue assurance process within the overall enterprise risk management, and thus covers all revenue related risks from revenue leakage through to revenue acknowledgement in the financial account, handles people, processes, and technology in a balanced way assuring maximum revenues with minimum costs.

ZIRA Revenue Assurance solutions is an end-to-end approach and analysis conducting of the revenue cycle processes, going  beyond the traditional approach to Revenue Assurance, distinguishing problems that are not discovered through the analysis of the particular area of revenue creation. Our approach achieves bottom-line impact by implementing long-term automated process changes, preventing future revenue leakage. We take a comprehensive, process-driven view and approach of the causes of revenue leakage; we focus on the processes, systems, and employee skills and practices.

 


RA Solution Features

 

  • Revenue control, Monitoring, and Revenue protection based on advanced integrity checking, flexible matching, reconciliation and quality assurance techniques and methods
  • End to End Business Process monitoring - Business continuity in all phases
  • Revenue Assurance Processing area, for a complete integrity check, reconciliation and matching of data across all the system, operations overview at a glance, with trending, business performance and scorecard, supported by OLAP ad-hoc, multi dimensional intelligent data analysis and business queries
  • Parallel Billing & Rating supported comparison - new products can be analyzed, ROI and efficiency can be calculated for the product on each level of integration with the new product
  • 100% Web-based Solution - for an even reduced TCO
  • N-tier component-based architecture with high level of reusability of particular functions throughout entire enterprise
  • Fully configurable Rule-based solution, with easy-to-use visual Builders utilizing drag-and-drop functionality for complex rule modeling
  • Process Workflow Management and Process Execution Control (N2B Control jOctopus), for a complete control of all processes, extends beyond only RA , integrates within the ERM for a complete control of all background processes: Inter - Process Communication & Synchronization, Real-time Performance Tuning, Monitoring & Management of the Running Processes
  • Latest technology stack with reach UI components - optimizes and gives a high and flexible performance Dashboard
  • Application Factory for a dynamic user-oriented administration of data: Data Grids, Reports, Dashboard builder (Alarm, Case, Scorecards, KPI Tickers) with numerous operations (Drill Down, Slice and Dice, ad-hoc data querying, Aggregations, Filtering...)
  • Alarm, Case & Action Management, either automatic or manual, with comprehensive GUI based configuration and monitoring
  • Distinctive Telco-Centric ETL - "Telco Sources" Ready, in contrast to a commercial one that cannot fully address all RA concerns related to data quality and data sources in telecommunication area. Support for different core network component vendors. GUI based rule configuration, designed to avoid extreme load to source systems, supports a multitude of source formats. Deep insight into ETL operations integrity and correctness, with functionalities as: monitoring, handling, processing, recovery, detailed diagnostic and reports with special focus on file-oriented operations: time gaps, file and record sequence checks, partial loading, duplicate checks and partial records special treatment, etc.
  • Total solution supporting phased implementation and reuse of shared components throughout enterprise (Application Factory, jOctopus, Telco-Centric ETL)

 

ZIRA  N2B (Network-to-Business) REVENUE ASSURANCE architecture, consists of:

1. N2B STUDIO - a web based GUI Application used to configure and operate N2B Revenue Assurance Solution, consisting of:

  • N2B CONFIGURATION part of N2B Studio is the backend application used for system configuration and setup. Consists of following modules:
    • Application Factory -  module used for dynamic UI setup
    • Rule Builder - module used for dynamic rule design
    • Admin - used for system administration and maintenance
    • jOctopus - used for N2B Control (jOctopus) administration and maintenance

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  • N2B PRESENTATION part of N2B Studio is the frontend application used for presentation and preview, data analysis and monitoring of data collected and generated inside system. Consists of the following modules:
    • Revenue Controls - preview, analysis and monitoring of data generated by different revenue controls inside the system 
    • KPI - presentation and monitoring of all KPIs in the system
    • Alarm -  management and monitoring of different kind of alarms inside the system
    • Case -  module for case management
    • Dashboard - user interface to preview different parts of system in one screen, for easy reading 
    • Reports - preview&presentation of user defined pixel-perfect reports
    • jO Console -  process ordering in jOctopus
    • jO Monitoring - system jOctopus process and executions monitoring
    • jO Logs -  log preview and log monitoring

 

2. N2B PROCESSING - the backend part of the solution, fully configurable, composed of different engines, grouped into the following areas:

 

  • N2B ETL PROCESSING - data acquisition, transformation and load into internal objects for data processing and analysis
  • N2B DATA QUALITY PROCESSING - data processing and analysis
  • N2B ENRICHMENT - enrichment and post processing of results generated by N2B Data Quality Engines
  • N2B RATING AND BILLING - additional option of N2B RA Solution, rating and billing verification and comparisons

3. N2B CONTROL (jOctopus) - jOctopus is a framework for process executions and control, it simplifies the implementation of new, and manages change of existing process execution functionalities of the system. It maximizes the usage of the single and multi-core parallelism in centralized and distributed hardware and software environments. 

Our RA Approach business benefits usability

  • Analytical processes and focus
  • Extreme understanding of risk management
  • Better differentiation
  • The application of state-of-the-art technology
  • Adherence to Industry Standards
  • Highly scalable and modular
  • Rapidly deployable
  • Ensure confidentiality and integrity of all data  across the enterprise
  • Minimal intrusions into ongoing billing and provisioning activities
  • Communication of revenue assurance methods and results across all business units, virtual teams, clear external communications
  • The capability to introduce and integrate new services, systems and processes within the revenue assurance program
  • Increased revenue collection
  • A quantified accounting of revenue loss


RA Solution benefits

  • Modularity (modular architecture and scalability) - Enterprise Edition N2B Studio is an agile, easy manageable, flexible, modular system that can be seamlessly implemented as a total solution integrated into any BSS/OSS landscape
  • Highly Flexible and Scalable – This solution is highly flexible and adaptive to customer demands. Flexible framework to define, implement, track and analyze results of RA strategies
  • Fantastic ease of use – User interface that is efficient, engaging, easy to learn and effective
  • Near real-time monitoring of revenue streams and revenue losses
  • Less time on operational activities and more on analytical activities
  • Substantial reduction of losses by Identifying, monitoring and controlling revenue leakages
  • Well beyond end-to-end reconciliation
  • High Performance and Capability