B-oo-levard^® - the Intelligence to bill
what has been earned already

A unique way to track down for revenues
that are not being billed
The communications market is one of the most competitive sectors in the commercial world. In the recent years a shift took place when economic pressure increased, causing many operators to move away from a growth-based business models, to value-based models where success is measured by margins and profitability.

Of course, as it is the general opinion meanwhile among the all billing managers, a real-time, transaction based rating and billing system with direct communication to the network (IN, service node, or charging gateway) provides the highest protection against revenue leakages - a rating and billing system like B-oo-levard®.

As part of this shift operators implemented measures to reduce cost and offered new, high-margin services to increase revenues. Both of these improved profitability. However, there is a third area where profitability can be substantially improved with minimal investment, by implementing a proactive Revenue Assurance strategy. B4E can - based on its experience and hte vast capabilities of B-oo-levard® - provide you with the right tool and services to help ensure your Revenue Assurance strategy succeeds.

Some of the revenue leakages that you can detect with B-oo-levard® are: inconsistencies in subscriber activiation and maintenance causing service usage without paying; contract termination did not work and was not recognized; one-time fees and recurring subscription fees may be applied wrongly; service usage is reported incorrectly by mediation; interconnect, roaming and other 3rd party revenue shares are calculated wrongly; rate table and discounting scheme errors leading to underbilling; prepay charging errors especially for data; wrong correlation of commerce events; inaccurate minutes rounding and aggregation; profitability of tariff plans and revenue sharing agreements; and many more …

Revenue Assurance with B-oo-levard®:
Quick results and durable successes
Telecommunications is most probable the most difficult area to identify revenue leakages. This is caused by complex systems, system landscapes with typically more than one billing system and – as a consequence – very sensitive integration. The number of transactions from the HLR up to the final bill is extremely large; data entitiies are not always correctly updated – be it by computer systems or by manual operations. The main challenge is not only to obtain precise and timely information associated with the whole rating and billing process. To prepare and process the information in an efficient and correct way independent of the existing system landscape is crucial for the success of Revenue Leakage Detection measures.

B-oo-levard® has all what is needed for an efficient and successful Revenue Assurance:

• the interoperability to connect easily to any related system and information source at very different points of interaction in the whole billing process

• the B-oo-levard® SelfAssemblyProcess to implement any product, any price plan and any discounting schema extremely fast

• the processing speed and reporting capabilities to achieve quick results.

B-oo-levard® and the B4E Revenue Assurance
Consultancy Team are ready to help
Together with you we define a holistic approach to Revenue Assurance. Together with you we perform vertical and horizontal sample testing of your systems using B-oo-levard®. This way the main areas of leakage are identified for corrective actions. Together with you and B-oo-levard® we will ensure that reappearance of already corrected leakages will be avoided.

In other words: in step 1 we are jointly hunting existing revenue leakages for immediate correction and quick results. In the next step an ongoing proactive process to avoid further revenue losses will be implemented and completely transferred into your organization.

For more Revenue. For higher Profitability.

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