1. RBM Configuration and Public Interfaces

2. External Interface
RBM was designed to be the best of breed convergent rating and billing system.
Enhanced Care APIs (ECAs) are Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) that enable RBM
to integrate with other packages with a range of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

3. API Customer Account Maintenance Rating and Billing Configuration
Product Configuration
Account Receivables
System Monitor
Rating Catalogue Maintenance
Batch Payment Transfer
Rejected Event Maintenance
Billing Catalogue Maintenance
Configuration Data Transfer
Products and Pricing
Edits Transfer
Configuration GUI
Transaction GUI
Configuration GUI
Stored Procedures
Third party External Systems
(CRM, eBPP, MDM etc)
Public Views
API
RB Database
Enchanced care APIs
Active Rating
Engine
Convergent
Billing Engine
Bill
Formatting
Accruals Extract
Generator
Mandate
Instructions
Age of Receivables
and Collections
Third Party
Rating
Event
Loading
External
Formatter
Archive and
Delete
Interface to
Financial Systems
Reports

4. Core Elements of RBM 5.0
Allows billing of any combination of different products and services, even though the are not related.
Single/consolidated bill for products and services.
Accounting and invoicing system.
Supports advanced and sophisticated marketing strategies for selling a range of products and services.
Remember: RBM 5.0 is NOT a complete customer care, provisioning, mediation, or finance system. !

5. The Configuration Approach
Customer Account Maintenance
Create Customer and Associate Plans
Creation and maintenance of Customer -> Accounts -> Products, Maintenance of life cycle of Customer, Account, Product, Account’s collections record, Manage deposit balances and requests
Rating Catalog Maintenance
Create Rating Tariffs
Configuration of Rate plan types, Cost band, Time rate, Event class with predicates, Charge segments, Costing rules, Rate plans, Automatic rate plan, Proxy rate plan, Ghost event types, Rating charges, Rating groups
Billing Catalog Maintenance
Create Price Plans and Discounts
Configuration of Non-usage charges- one time, Recurring charges, Filters, Discounts, Bonus points, Loyalty points, Package, Age dependent price
Product Configuration
Create Products
Configuration of Product family, Products (parent, child), Subscription, Peer product, Peer grouping products, One time charges, Product attributes
Rating and Billing Configuration
Create Baseline Configuration
Configuration of Bill formatters, Financial entities, File groups, File types, ICO, Tax, Event definition, Customer attributes, Receivables, Predicates, Profile types, Action types, Plug-ins and Derived attributes, Rating groups, Rating charges

6. Main Functionalities and Client Modules
Main functionalities of RBM are:
Identify usage charges of an event
Online and offline rating
Apply rating time discounts
Apply fixed charges, one time charges, suspension/termination charges, billing time discounts, and taxed
Batch/on-demand billing
Bill formatting
Manage customer debts
Follow-ups with the customer in case of debt issues
Rating
Billing
Debtage

7. Main Functionalities and Client Modules
Managing customer payments against billing
Manage collections
Manage product life cycle
Manage billing catalogs and Price Plans
Manage rating catalogs and Rate Plans
Configuration of system parameters in database
Configuration in baseline
Configuration of taxes, payment methods, currencies, and customer types
Configuration of rating groups, predicates, and so on
Collections
Product/Rating/Billing Catalogs
Rating and Billing Configuration

8. Main Functionalities and Client Modules
RBM Client Modules

9. Knowledge Check
Start

10. Identify the usage charges of an event __________
Rating
Debtage
Product/Rating/Billing Catalogs
Collections

11. Manage customer payments __________
Rating
Debtage
Product/Rating/Billing Catalogs
Collections

12. Manage customer debt/follow-ups __________
Rating
Debtage
Product/Rating/Billing Catalogs
Collections

13. Configure product, rate plans __________
Rating
Debtage
Product/Rating/Billing Catalogs
Collections

14. The Results