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Telecom Risk Management: The Market for Revenue Assurance, Fraud, Credit, and Cost Management Solutions


Published Date: October 2006
Published By: Dittberner Associates
Page Count: 192
Order Code: R70-32
 
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A. Executive Summary
B. The Fraud Management Market
1. The Function of a Fraud System
2. Fraud and Next Generation Networks
3. The Growth of Mobile Subscription Fraud
4. Internal Fraud
5. VoIP Generated Fraud
a. VoIP Fraud -- The Pena Case
b. ECtel's Solution for Managing VoIP Fraud
6. The Fraud Management Services Business
C. Credit & Collections Management
1. Customer Qualification and Acquisition
2. The Technology Behind Credit and Fraud Management
3. Collections at Business Accounts
D. The Revenue Assurance Market
1. Background & History
2. Market Drivers
a. Recover Lost Revenue
b. Fixing Billing & Provisioning Problems
c. Large Organizations Create Large Assurance Problems
d. Mergers Create OSS Chaos
3. Organizational Issues Driving the Market
a. The Revenue Assurance Carrier Organization
b. Firemen Moving To Focus on Prevention
E. Revenue Assurance Functions & Applications
1. Switch-to-Bill Reconciliation
2. Revenue Assurance Problems that Lead to Under-Billing
3. Order Entry and Management Errors
4. Interconnect Billing Analysis
4. Call Simulation and Testing
5. Broadband & Data Services Revenue Assurance
a. What makes Data Services Hard to Revenue Assure
b. Typical Error Types in Data Services
(Under-billing, Over-Billing, Stranded Assets, Ghost Assets)
c. Solving the Network Crossword Puzzle
d. Mapping Corporate Billing Hierarchies
6. The Telco-to-Enterprise Billing Problem
a. Audit Schedule: Whenever the Customer Complains
b. The Scope & Root Causes of Billing Problems
c. Pilot Study: Extent of Telco-to-Enterprise Assurance Issues
d. Service Acceptance & Outside-of-Contract Issues
e. Commission-Based Audit Firms & Chasing False Positives
f. Bountiful RA Services Opportunities
g. Global Estimate of Enterprise Customer Over- & Under-Billings
7. Revenue Assurance for Next Generation Services
a. Content & Video Distribution in Triple Play
b. Service- & Device-Dependent Revenue Collection
c. Partner Management
d. Complexity of Bundles & Settlements
e. Advertising
f. Licensing and Royalties
8. Profit Maximization Solutions
a. Real-Time International Call Margin Management
b. Usage Trending Analysis
c. Content Partner & Profit Management Software
9. Other Revenue Assurance Functions
a. Network Leasing Cost Management
b. Line Level Usage
c. Construction Management
d. Sales and Marketing Analysis
e. CSR Credit Adjustments
10. Reconciling Network Inventory/Provisioning
11. Telecom Controls Software
a. The Power of Telecom Controls in OSS/BSS Software
b. Example: Controls in the Billing Cycle
12. Margin & Cost Analysis - Power of Revenue Stream Visibility
13. Custom Contracts and Profitability Analysis
F. Data Integrity
1. Sources of Data Integrity Problems
a. Manual Processes
b. Billing errors
c. Householding
d. Product Management Complexity
e. Contract Tracking Errors
2. Systemic vs. Pervasive Data Errors
3. Correcting Data Integrity Problems
4. Business Process Modeling: The Manual Side of Data Integrity
5. Business Process Management Tools
G. Evolution in Software & Consulting Delivery
1. Revenue Assurance Borrows a Trick from Fraud Management
2. Data Management Layer Advances
3. Closing the Gap Between RA Software vs. Services
4. Tool Vendors in the RA Consulting Game
5. The Value Add of Revenue Assurance Consulting
6. Should Consultants Provide Software to Clients?
H. Mergers & Acquisitions
1. Market Consolidations Abound
2. Will Fraud and RA Merge?
I. Market Opportunities
J. Market Threats
K. Carrier Recommendations
L. Market Segmentations & Forecasts
1. How Dittberner Develops its Market Segmentations
2. Software Market Growth Forecast
3. Revenue Assurance Consulting
4. Software Distribution Channels
5. Software by Geographic Region
6. Software by Service Provider Type
7. Software by Service Provider Size
8. Software Delivery Method
9. Revenue Assurance Software by Application
10. Revenue Assurance Consulting Services
M. Case Studies
1. Cellcom Wireless Revenue Assurance
2. Vodafone UK Revenue Assurance
3. Cable & Wireless: Building a Global RA Program
4. TDC Denmark: Fraud & Customer Risk System
5. Comcast Revenue Assurance
N. Vendor Profiles
ACL Services
BassetLabs
CAPE Technologies
Control Point Solutions
cVidya
ECtel
Fair Isaac
Hewlett-Packard
Infogix
KPMG
Lavastorm
Lightbridge
Neural Technologies
Praesidium
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Subex Azure
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