Amdocs , the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, introduced 'Amdocs Charging Smart Start' with a new packaged software and hardware offering, which allows service providers to rapidly deploy real-time charging capabilities into the network.
“Focus on cost control is driving some service providers to establish convergent charging capabilities in a phased manner,” said Justin van der Lande, Revenue Management program head at Analysys Mason. “Often the initial phase of an installation needs to be quickly implemented. Having a preconfigured solution helps deliver this, but it must then be easy to extend to support additional charging capabilities. In particular, service providers who deploy prepaid charging systems need to ensure they are able to easily migrate their postpaid customers on to the same system. Amdocs Charging Smart Start supports this type of approach.”
“Service providers are under increasing pressure to quickly monetize network investments,” said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president for product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. “Deploying Amdocs Charging Smart Start will allow for quick time-to-revenue from prepaid or data offerings. Moreover, the offering guarantees a smart evolution to convergent charging since it is designed to be easily extended with additional capabilities delivered by the comprehensive Amdocs Omni Convergent Charging Solution, and broader, pre-integrated Amdocs CES 9 product suite.”
