Dramatic changes in the wholesale business environment with fiercely competitive pricing of commodities such as bandwidth and minutes, crippling operational expenditure, and the launch of new customised services involving complex value chains are revolutionising the sector’s approach to process control.
Limitation of legacy wholesale management systems
The clock is ticking: key buying, selling, routing and billing decisions need to be made. A wide range of trading platforms, routing applications, and wholesale billing systems across your organisation hold all the answers that you need to make informed decisions. The trouble is you can’t ask them the right questions. And even if you could, they would each respond separately and incompatibly, because these systems are designed for discrete purposes and provide limited integration and consistency. It’s no longer enough for professionals across your organisation to operate in silos. You need the flexibility to unlock the functional limitations imposed on individual systems to automate and streamline business processes and improve your ROI. But how do you deal with spiralling integration costs and time consuming IT project management? How do you optimise a mine field of systems from different suppliers? And how do you gain a complete view of performance across your wholesale operations?
Ensuring process control and efficiencies
Intec Wholesale Business Management unlocks you from unresponsive technology and legacy business practices. The most comprehensive solution comprising wholesale billing and settlement, trading and routing, and preprocessing and mediation capabilities, all in a single coherent solution, never has it been easier to revolutionise and streamline your entire wholesale business processes
to improve contract negotiations with your interconnect partners, to optimise traffic trading and routing through the network, to monitor the health of your business, to accurately bill and settle for all services, to automate repetitive administration tasks, and to effectively manage partner relationships, in such a complex world.
Intec Wholesale Business Management Solution
With the Intec Wholesale Business Management Solution you obtain a single intelligent architecture that integrates, synchronises and helps you to manage all the decisions necessary to streamline processes and improve your wholesale margins and profitability. For example you can control all types of commercial agreements and obligations, manage the cost base and customer pricing, identify the most appropriate way to distribute traffic, swiftly upload routing information to switches, manage rating, discounting and special charges, automate reconciliation, bill and settle for all types of services, and monitor supplier and network performance.
In other words, the success of one activity in the wholesale business management cycle will not be unwittingly jeopardised for the sake of another.
Intec helps operators to optimise their trading relationships among multiple trading partners, address fixed and mobile convergence, exploit new IP technologies, and drive their wholesale margins and profitability to new heights.
In conclusion, better controlled, more efficient processes give your wholesale business operations the ability to add value to your organisation and to achieve sustainable performance. The challenge is to do this without expensive and complex technical infrastructures, and to have a constant picture of the complete
wholesale management lifecycle. Intec Wholesale Business management provides you with the necessary control over these processes and gives you insight, to launch new services, deliver new revenue, streamline exiting processes, save costs and guard against market risks.
Key Benefits
- Centralised system in which to manage wholesale rates and all types of agreements
- Reduces costs and improves margins through more efficient traffic trading & routing
- Supports the transition from TDM to IP technology
- Improves operational control by collecting and processing events in near real time
- Increases productivity by streamlining billing and reconciliation with partners
- Provides robust reporting to enable accurate monitoring of business performance
- Allows you to exploit the opportunities found in fixed and mobile convergence
- A proven world-class solution based on the most advanced, innovative components
- Flexibility to allow all components to be pre-integrated or deployed individually
Author: Simon Dadswell, Advanced Solutions Marketing Manager, Intec.