You Need BRM When You have EBS – and Even When You Don’t!
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Here is a list of criteria to test your business-systems (Oracle E-Business Suite, EBS) or otherwise to support your lines of digital business - if you score low, you need Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM).
Functions
- Scalability
- High Availability (99.999%)
- Performance
- Extensibility (e.g. APIs, Tools)
- Upgradability
- Maintenance
- Security
- Standards Compliance
- Regulatory Compliance (e.g. SOX)
- User Experience
- Implementation Complexity
Features
- Customer Management
- Real-Time Service Authorization
- Pricing/Promotions Flexibility
- Subscriptions
- Usage Rating and Pricing
- Real-Time Balance Mgmt.
- Non-Currency Resources
- Billing & Invoicing
- A/R & G/L
- Payments & Collections
- Revenue Assurance
Integration with Key Enterprise Applications
- Reporting
- Business Intelligence
- Order & Service Mgmt (OSM)
- Siebel CRM
- E-Business Suite
- On-/Off-line Mediation
- Payment Processing
- Taxation
- Royalties & Settlements
- Operations Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Implementation
- Configuration
- Extensibility
- Maintenance
- Upgradability
- Functional Richness
- Feature Richness
- Usability
- OOB Integrations
- Operations Management
- Leveraging Oracle Technology
- Overall Fit for Purpose
You need Oracle BRM:
- Built for high-volume transaction processing
- Monetizes any service or event based on any metric
- Supports high-volume usage rating, pricing and promotions
- Provides real-time charging, service authorization and balance management
- Supports any account structure (e.g. corporate hierarchies etc.)
- Scales from low volumes to extremely high volumes of transactions (e.g. billions of trxn per hour)
- Exposes every single function via APIs (e.g. Java, C/C++, PERL, COM, Web Services, JCA)
Immediate Business Benefits of BRM:
- Improved business agility and performance
- Supports the flexibility, innovation, and customer-centricity required for current and future business models
- Faster time to market for new products and services
- Supports 360 view of the customer in real-time – products can be launched to targeted customers at a record-breaking pace
- Streamlined deployment and operation
- Productized integrations, standards-based APIs, and OOB enablement lower deployment and maintenance costs
- Extensible and scalable solution
- Minimizes risk – initial phase deployed rapidly; solution extended and scaled seamlessly per business requirements
Key Considerations
- Productized integration with key Oracle applications
- Lower integration risks and cost
- Efficient order-to-cash process
- Engineered solution – certification on Exa platform
- Exadata tested at PayPal in the re-platforming project
- Optimal performance of Oracle assets on Oracle hardware
- Productized solution in Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery
- Fast offer design and implementation
- Significantly shorter order cycle time
- Productized integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Visibility to system operability for optimal up time
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