Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Batch Pricing and Rating

What you will learn

This course is designed for Pricing Developers who need to use Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management to implement batch pricing and rating solutions. In the Batch Pricing and Rating class, the students will learn how to build rate plans and test configured rate plans by rating batch EDR files. Implementation of rate plans for roaming charges is also covered. During the hands-on lab, students will learn to implement different types of rating scenarios.
Audience
 Developer

Prerequisites
 Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Business Essentials
Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Pricing and Rating
Billing and Revenue Management Version 7 Business Essentials

Course Objectives
 Translate price plans to the Portal Pricing Model
Test price plans by rating batch EDR files
Set up a discount model to provide discount
Implement a rate plan for roaming scenario
Introduce high-performance batch rating concepts

Course Topics
Implementing Pipeline Rating
 Discuss the two methods of rating
Describe Pipeline Manager architecture and components
Review the Portal Pricing Model components and their attributes
Explain Promotions and Secondary Services
Give an overview of how to configure Delayed Events

Creating a Rate Plan for Delayed Events
 Define and map event attributes
Set up a Time Model
Set up a Zone Model
Set up Impact Categories
Set up a Price Model
Set up a Rate Plan

Processing and Rating Delayed Events
 Use Pipeline Manager to process and rate EDRs
Use EdrDump to track EDR processing and to verify rating results

Setting Up a Discount Model
 Explain the discounting architecture and features
Set up a Discount Model

Loading Rated Events into Portal
 Explain how REL loads rated events into the database

Implementing a Roaming Scenario
 Explain how Portal implements Roaming
Set up rating for a roaming scenario using the Portal Pricing Center