INTEC
INTEC
INTEC
INTERCONNECT
LEADING THE WORLD IN
INTERCONNECT BILLING
INTEC INTERCONNECT:
EXCELLENCE IN
INTERCONNECT
BILLING
Intec Interconnect is
the worlds leading
interconnect software
solution with over 200
customers spanning
all telecoms market
segments across the
globe including Orange,
Telefonica, France
Telecom, Vodafone
and Reliance India.
These customers select
Intec Interconnect as
the natural choice
to improve efficiencies
in their wholesale
operations and manage
the latest content
and value-added
data services.
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We selected Intecs
Interconnect v7 because
of Intec experience in
the international market.
Intec has a proven track
record in delivering
turnkey solutions of a
similar nature to ours.
This was an important
factor for us.
Justin Brochocki,
Strategic Sourcing
Manager, TelstraClear
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RECOGNISING BUSINESS
CHANGES & CHALLENGES
Flexibility: The large number of
interconnect and content partner
agreements means that operators need
to have flexible business processes,
systems and control structures in order
to manage their operations effectively.
Intec Interconnect offers the inherent
flexibility to adjust agreements to market
conditions, change pricing and revenue
share, set-up partners and services,
analyse liabilities and opportunities, and
provide consistency of network facilities
among carriers quickly and easily.
Automation: As interconnect
arrangements and product definitions
become more complex, automation
becomes an increasingly important
factor. Intec Interconnect allows the
automation of wholesale billing
processes including agreement
management, trading and routing,
rate loading, price management,
invoicing and settlements, financial
interfaces and reconciliation.
Rapid reaction to change: Operators
need to respond to change faster than
ever to combat declining voice revenues
and enable growing numbers of next
generation services. Intec Interconnect
enables operators to rapidly enter new
markets, improve cash flows, and
reduce bad debt through streamlined
and rapid billing cycles, tariff updates
and settlement procedures.
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INTEC INTERCONNECT:
OPTIMISED
INTERCONNECT
BILLING
IMPROVING YOUR INTERCONNECT OPERATIONS
Intec Interconnect increases productivity
by optimising the process of settling
invoices or payments received from
inter-carrier partners. The single,
consolidated platform handles all the
data in the network and supports any
type of traffic, whether it is voice, mobile,
data, IP, value-added services
or content. This provides all interconnect
functions with consistent and reliable
source data and a clear picture of
finance, performance and market
information.
ACCELERATING THE BILLING CYCLE
To help eliminate delays in revenue
recognition and improve cash flow.
Intec Interconnect removes cumbersome,
repetitive administrative processes
associated with generating interconnect
statements loading of tariff plans and
rates, filtering, editing and enrichment
of EDRs, service and tariff changes, and
production of legal account documents
generating invoices and statements
quickly and assuring that they are more
accurate, controlled and auditable.
POWERFUL RATE MANAGEMENT
Quickly load tariffs, communicate
changes, spot discrepancies, and make
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FLEXIBILITY TO SUPPORT
ALL BUSINESS MODELS
Intec Interconnect supports all types
of business models including ITU
settlements, destination and distance
based charging, bilateral and volume
based agreements, advanced revenue
sharing, refile, international resale,
direct, cascade and indirect billing as
well as non event billing for network
services such as, leased lines, shared
infrastructure billing, co-location fees,
Wholesale Local Loop Unbundling,
subscription based content and bit
stream access. Intec Interconnect also
caters for a number of market-specific
business processes including Element
Based Conveyance (UK),
Carrier Price List (UK), Codifi (Spain),
and Pisa (Mexico).
STREAMLINING INVOICE
PRODUCTION
Streamlining invoice production is an
integral part of Intec Interconnect by
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MANAGING COMPLEX
SERVICES & PARTNERSHIPS
ACTIVELY MANAGE
INTERCONNECT AGREEMENTS
Intec Interconnect enables the active
management of interconnect
agreements. The system offers the
complete transparency needed to
monitor and drive performance of each
business relationship through real-time
business rules. This can lead to the
creation of new agreements, pricing
strategies, and incentives and the
resolution of issues such as unprofitable
agreements, bad debt and inadequate
service provision.
INCREASE REVENUE THROUGH
NEXT GENERATION BILLING
To make next generation services truly
profitable operators need high levels of
billing flexibility, data quality and rapid
service deployment. The system offers
unifying technology to manage both
traditional and new interconnect models
including value-based billing, capacity
based, recurring charges, IP peering
arrangements, GPRS roaming, multifranchise support, multi-party
settlements and revenue-sharing
agreements for partners, sponsors
and advertisers all from a single
convergent system.
LAUNCHING INNOVATIVE
NEW SERVICES
The challenge for operators is to provision
new services as quickly and cost-effectively
as possible without the need to perform
complex and expensive system
enhancements. Intec Interconnect offers
powerful rating, tariffing and discounting
capabilities for traffic, recurring charges
and one off events, allowing the definition
testing and launch of attractive and
innovative products to market faster than
competitors, and ensure that the network
is optimally used to maximise product
margins.
REVENUE ASSURANCE CONTROLS
Powerful task recording and revenue
assurance controls manage the integrity
of tariff data and monitor performance,
allowing audit control, SOX compliance
and integrity reporting. Enabling billing
managers to ensure that billing accuracy
is maintained during the introduction of
new services, pricing structures and
partners.
Intecs interconnect
billing solution
has been selected for
its proven capabilities
in simplifying billing
and reconciliation
and we are confident
that our investment
will yield greater
interconnect profitability
and improved network
performance.
Tariq Rashid,
CIO of Mobilink
REDUCING COSTS OF
MANAGING PARTNERS
A single point of contact is essential
to the efficient management of a
growing number of partners. Intec
Interconnect provides a secure web
portal that allows partners to manage
their own accounts, query their
agreement details, and make statement
and traffic enquiries. This significantly
cuts the costs of dealing with queries
and issues and helps to economically
manage a large number of interconnect
and content partners.
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"Through InterconnecT
Digicel has the capability
to charge other interexchange and local
exchange carriers
without delay while
automatically reconciling
our own invoices with
their incoming bills.
There is a minimum
requirement for staff
to support the process
since everything is
handled by the system.
As a result we can keep
our operational overhead
relatively low without
impacting our efficiency
in settling with other
carriers."
Jermaine Nicholas,
Interconnect Billing
Executive, Digicel
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WHOLESALE BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
The Intec Wholesale Business
Management portfolio offers a broad
range of complementary products
to support accurate wholesale billing
and settlement using Interconnect.
It provides Optimised Routing functions
to maximise wholesale margins,
Content Partner Management to
support emerging requirements such
as revenue sharing and multi-party
settlement for IP/Content services
and Contract Management to support
rapidly changing wholesale agreements
and rates. All fully integrated with
enterprise standard reporting,
pre-processing and mediation
capabilities.
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WHOLESALE BILLING AND SETTLEMENT MANAGER
AT THE HEART OF INTEC
INTERCONNECT LIES THE
SETTLEMENT MANAGER,
WHICH OFFERS POWERFUL
CONVERGENT INTERCONNECT
RATING AND SETTLEMENT
FEATURES ESSENTIAL TO THE
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF
YOUR INTERCONNECT OPERATIONS.
COMBINED WITH POWERFUL
MODELLING CAPABILITIES, YOU
CAN INTUITIVELY MANAGE THE
CONNECTIVITY WITH OTHER
OPERATORS AND BUSINESS
PARTNERS AND THE RATING
OF ALL TYPES OF EVENT AND
NON-EVENT TRAFFIC ITEMS TO
BE EXCHANGED.
REFERENCE DATA MANAGEMENT
All the repetitive tasks of loading and
maintaining reference data for each
agreement are simplified. The system
offers an integrated bulk loader, a
reference data API for integrating
adjunct software and flexible data
management capabilities. This
significantly reduces the amount of
data maintenance required and is
essential for operators with large or
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OPTIONAL
SUBSYSTEMS
PRE-PROCESSING
MANAGER
PARTNER RELATIONSHIP
MANAGER
Data validation
EDR enrichment and transformation
EDR filtering and editing
ITU
MANAGER
AUTOMATED
RECONCILIATION
MANAGER
FINANCIAL
MANAGER
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RECURRING CHARGES
Recurring Charges Manager provides for
charging and settlement of agreements
that are not based on events, such as
leased lines and co-location fees. It
provides comprehensive support for nonevent billing including billing in advance
or arrears, early cancellation including
pro-rata repayment/penalty charging as
well as flexible recurring charge periods
ranging from days to months or years.
Multi-dimensional rating
Tiered, threshold and capped rates
Supplementary agreement information
Calculation of recurring charges tiered
by event volumes
CONTRACT
MANAGER
Typically the data from a single rate
sheet can easily take two weeks to load
by hand, and there will be errors.
Contract Manager can load a rate sheet in
just a few minutes and with 100%
accuracy. Rapid and automatic loading of
buy rate sheets into Interconnect. Analysis
of rate sheets to quickly identify changes
to dial plans and rate increases. The rates
can be replicated across multiple business
units and products as required. Rounding
options can be defined and a Revenue
share value can be applied. The following
data types are loaded.
Destinations (tiers)
Network addresses
(CNP number prefixes)
Rating rules who gets paid or pays
Rating calendars
Rates
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An upgrade to
InterconnecT v7
from Intec will improve
the Indosat's ability to
accurately and costeffectively bill and settle,
with all its national and
international partners,
for the full range of
services it offers, from
basic telephony to the
most advanced nextgeneration services."
Azinul J Adrian,
VP of IT, Fixed Access
Division, Indosat
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SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Intec Interconnect employs a state-ofthe-art, 3-tier client-server architecture
exploiting the class leading features of
Java, C++, CORBA and Oracle. The Java
clients run under Windows and the
UNIX-based Oracle server runs on HP or
Sun hardware platforms and provides
the data management layer.
TALK TO
US TODAY
For more information on
how Intecs solutions have helped
operators around the world to gain
real business advantage, visit our
website at www.intecbilling.com.
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INTEC
PRODUCTS
INCLUDE:
INTEC
SERVICES
INCLUDE:
Consulting
Implementation
Configuration and scripting
Optimisation and tuning
Education and training
Global support
Outsourced and managed services
Global Headquarters
Wells Court, Albert Drive, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5UB, UK
tel: +44 (0)1483 745800 fax: +44 (0)1483 745860
e-mail: info@intecbilling.com
web: www.intecbilling.com
Regional Headquarters
Asia tel: + 603 2782 2800 fax: + 603 2782 2900
North America tel: + 1 404 705 2800 fax: + 404 705 2805
Caribbean and Latin America
tel: + 55 11 3372 1400 fax: + 55 11 3285 6498
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