Current revenue recognition systems have their own mechanisms for identifying discrepancies that could lead to revenue leakage. These processes or validations are based on operator cluster guidelines, review of amounts credited to subscribers, and revenue generated from usage recorded in billing systems. Careful cross-checking of the various metrics can alert revenue assurance teams to potential leakage, minimizing discrepancies in the calculation of earned and unearned revenue for prepaid and billed and unbilled revenue for postpaid.

Most often, accuracy is tied to quantitative measures related to billing and pricing processes, such as duration, data volume, or pricing accuracy.

Revenue Assurance has been adopted by telecom players as a key solution to improve data quality and data handling processes. Today, worldwide, most Revenue Assurance controls managed by RA teams focus on the completeness of data used by revenue-generating business processes, confirming the clear value the function brings to the business.

In short, a revenue assurance solution combined with advanced analytics capabilities to generate and manage insights from large volumes of data is a winning formula.

Operators need to keep an eye on profitability which must increase along the network value chain. To do this, multi-channel provisioning behavior must be analyzed to determine how best to improve margins and optimize utilization.

Operators need to close data reconciliation gaps between different sources such as networks, partners and products. Lack of real-time product performance information can negatively impact an organization’s profit and loss. Good data management increases the effectiveness of identifying and tracking the profitability of services, devices and other entities, which reinforces the need to ensure margin.

Integrity assurance
Our Revenue Assurance solution RA-Tools validates multi-vendor and multi-technology information, and identifies in near-real time information inconsistencies that can lead to revenue stream leakage.
Rating Control
Based on its pricing and billing tool, RA-Tools allows to check the correct application of On-net, Off-net, International & Roaming tariffs at the prepaid platform level and to estimate the impact on the revenue stream.
Billing Control
For billing validation, RA-Tools validates the billing data against historical reference data and statistics or other data sources at an aggregated or detailed level.
Balance Control
RA-Tools enables balance control of prepaid customers, and shows for each prepaid customer any discrepancies between consumption based on balance variation on the one hand and CDRs consumption on the other hand.
Margin Assurance
RA-Tools compares the average per-minute charge with the average revenue for outgoing international and roaming calls.