Crestel Next-generation Billing Platform
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| Communication service providers are seeing increasing revenue opportunities in offering more personalised and interactive next generation digital video, voice and data services, due to continuous advances in technologies and stiff competition, so as to increase customer loyalty and reduce churn while maintaining lower cost of operation. |
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| Need of Next-Generation Billing and Revenue Management System: |
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For many CSPs, legacy Billing systems are fated for the end of their life as they are not capable to provide the capabilities required by today's IP based real-time data applications. There is need of a dynamic next-generation billing and revenue management platform.
To support the convergence capabilities for multiple service offerings but also will provide open integration support and complete flexibility to map various business requirements such as wireline/wireless broadband, Enterprise, Cloud, MVNO, M2M, 4G/LTE, etc in today’s competitive environment. |
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| Crestel Next-generation B/OSS Platform |
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| An industry compliant carrier-grade OSS/BSS platform that enables next generation data, voice and video services over various networks in real-time to manage and profit from application, media and communication services offered directly and through distribution channels. The platform provides higher scalability and flexibility to effectively manage each and every aspect of the business requirements of communication service providers while offering enhanced business value and lower total cost of ownership. |
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| The entire platform is compliant to the standard Frameworx put forth by TM Forum and all its functions are aligned with eTOM business processes that addresses all the aspects of convergence |
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Pre-integrated Platform
Complete fulfillment, assurance and billing capabilities all integrated via open interfaces addressing end-to-end ecosystem for CSPs while ensuring quicker time to market.
Convergent Billing
Platform enables error free and single bill to customers for multiple next generation services over various markets with support for multiple payment options.
End to End Service Fulfilment
Flexible product catalog offers creation of competitive advantages with improved customer retention through product bundling, IMS based product models with multiple product hierarchy support
Effective Assurance
Assured support for customer problem handling, guaranteed QOS/SLA, resource performance and trouble management
End-to-end Billing and Revenue Management
The platform offers capabilities such as bill payment and receivables, smart charging, bill invoicing and inquiry handling and balance management with flexible mediation system
Easy Interface Management
It enables Customers, Franchisee/ Resellers and Partners to manage their own services with ease through user friendly web self care portals providing complete control and reduced complexity
Prepaid-postpaid convergence
Real-time RnC engine delivers true prepaid-postpaid convergence while enabling rapid service launch, range of pricing plans, discounts & promotional offers for complex bundles over multiple technologies
Ease in Partner Management & Settlement
It enables accuracy enhancement in revenue sharing and various risks distribution across channel partners/distributors/ resellers.
Open integration Support
Enabling consolidated use of multiple systems like 3rd party network elements, Middleware and various other independent systems to avoid vendor lock.
Extensive Reporting
End-user reporting tool to create, manage and deliver reports quickly and easily over the web and which can be integrated with any application to design and view reports
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| Crestel B/OSS Offerings for verticals |
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- MVNO
- Triple Play
- Cloud Billing
- Pay TV
- Next Generation Billing
- Enterprise Billing
- M2M Solution
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Crestel MVNO solution provides an end‐to‐end, real‐time and convergent platform for rapid service delivery & customer care to meet pertinent growth aspects of MVNOs‐ revenue generation, service differentiation & cost optimization.
- Single convergent billing solution enabling MVNOs to offer the same levels of budgetary control and service range across all pre-paid/post-paid subscribers over various wireline and wireless networks of MNOs
- Introduction of new offerings, promotional plans and services to the customers under own brand while ensuring compatibility and interoperability with the Mobile Network Operator (MNO)
- Robust Inventory Management in all dimensions such as wholesale, simple or full type MVNO, from cable to services, subscribers and handsets, with end-to-end and multi-technology views
- Easy integration with various 3rd party systems and gateways while accommodating the needs of business models such as wholesale, simple MVNO or full MVNO.
- Effective revenue sharing & settlement between MVNO/Es, Content providers, MNOs.
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Crestel Triple Play solution gives operators a unified platform that can seamlessly scale to serve any number of customers and multiple services including VoIP, Internet and Video services in a cost-efficient way enhancing profitability and customer retention.
- Centralised Subscriber management across all Services in Triple Play
- Faster rollout of A-La-Carte offerings, Channel bouquet services and other interactive VAS services
- Real-time service provisioning and convergent billing for Multiple Services including VoIP, Internet and Video services
- Open STB support and integration with multi vendors Middleware/CAS for Cable TV/DTH/IPTV based models
- Subscriber Self-care to manage their own plans and bill payment
- Supports Multiple Business Models (Prepaid-postpaid/ Retail/Corporate)
- Extensive TRP reporting capabilities
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Crestel Cloud Solution is an end-to-end billing solution for businesses that offer various IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services on private and/or public clouds. It is a network agnostic platform allowing the monetization of any revenue stream for any customer type through robust subscriber management functionality and for any complex partner relationship through effective partner management.
- Multi-service creation, optimizing various plans, pricing strategy and dynamic charging models such as Pay-per-use equipment like CPU consumption/Storage Consumption or periodic rentals for Physical/ Virtual nodes, Number of CPUs/ Cores, etc.
- Greater Flexibility for Service Personalization for Software/Platform/Infrastructure as a Service models
- Usage-based and performance-based warranties and various service level agreements are supported through flexible SLA management
- Lower TCO and Higher Return on investment
- Rapid time to market for introducing new services or plans
- Seamless and accurate pricing ensures competitiveness and the market stay
- Enhanced customer experience while keeping customer loyalty
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Crestel Pay TV Solution enables providers to offer multiple services such as voice over broadband, Cable TV and broadband, bundled services, Triple Play, on-demand services, on-line purchasing, viewer polling, Replay live TV, Multi-room TV, broadcast & unicast features and more, on a single platform
- Single platform for multiple services (DVR/VOD/PPV/VAS, etc.) and networks (COAX/FTTH/HFC, etc.)
- Convergent business model supporting pre-paid, post-paid, enterprise & residential customers
- Flexible Product Catalog for A-la-carte offerings and multi channel bouquet services
- Enables managing complex partner relations of broadcaster, content providers, LCOs/JVs/Franchisee, CDN Provider with differing agreements with the same system in the Cable TV ecosystem easily
- Intuitive EPG for subscribers
- Extensive business intelligence and TRP reporting capabilities (IPTV) for monitoring the growth continuously.
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Crestel Next Generation Billing Solution offers convergence capabilities to CSPs to accommodates multiple technological advances like 3G, 4G/LTE and Cloud, etc. over its convergent framework, supporting rapid geographical rollouts and enabling service providers to deliver multiple next-generation digital services to customers with a unified view
- Accurate and single bill for multiple next generation services such as voice, data, video, interactive on-demand VAS, etc
- Convergent billing for various wireless and wireline markets such as Cable broadband, M2M, WiMax, MVNOs, 4G/LTE, IMS-based, Cloud, Prepaid/Postpaid, Enterprise/Retail, Triple Play, Mobile TV etc
- Reduced complexity and easy management of services through Customer/ Distributor/ Reseller Web Self care
- Consolidated use of multiple systems like 3rd party network elements, Middleware, CAS, various other independent systems through open integration support to avoid vendor lock
- Accuracy enhancement in revenue sharing and various risks distribution across channel partners/distributors/ resellers
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CRESTEL Enterprise Solution is an ideal billing and revenue management solution for CSPs who want to offer a complete range of services such as Enterprise Voice/data, broadband, leased line, IP based, MPLS services, Managed or professional services, etc. to the enterprise customers.
- End to End Service Fulfilment and easy customer acquisition across all the variants
- Scalable Work order management like multiple workflows, fieldwork task allocation, work flow engine, reports, etc
- Lower TCO by providing platform capable for future services on NGN
- Last mile link & device provisioning support for all the variants
- Create, manage and deliver reports quickly and easily over the web
- Supports multiple types of deployment architectures such as DR, Geo Redundant, ‘Active-Active’ & ‘Active-Passive’
- Ability to handle existing complex systems with ease via open integration support
- Supports open standards such as RADIUS, Diameter, HTTP, SOAP etc. for integration with other systems
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| Crestel M2M solution is compliant to the industry standards enabling an MNO, MVNO or MVNE of having well suited OSS/BSS environment to manage complex business processes and large scale implementation across numerous M2M verticals.
- Single Platform for fragmented M2M ecosystem consisting of numerous services/devices of different types, plenty of vendors and huge data transaction.
- Standard 3GPP compliant Solution offering guaranteed quality of service through smart monetization of M2M transactions
- Proper Device Authentication based on multiple parameters to block unauthorised access and thus secure transactions and prevent revenue leakage
- Scalable to manage huge M2M traffic with flexibility and support various innovative & complex business models serving large number of M2M verticals
- Flexible Platform allowing vast subscription management, multi network access, offering accounting flexibility and provisioning of multiple devices on accounts or multinational accounts with clearly defining complex ownership of devices.
- Robust Inventory/SIM management capability provides flexibility to manage SIM/Device and allocate them to the end users or service or application, even in bulk ensuring enhanced service experience
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