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Gaïa offer
Multi-languages, multi-taxation
Gaïa Billing Gaïa Global
& Customer Care Mediation
billing, Customer Care usage Collect
& Accounting activation
e-care
bad debt Management
local loop Management Gaïa Interco
fault Management
interconnect Billing
PRM
Product Brief
2 Gaïa BCC Benefits
optimize
profits & limit bad debt lead the market!
Customer Inter-Carrier
Directory Settlements
Invoice
Edition > CDRs Rating > Payment
Financial
> Bill Preparation > Credit Control
General Managementt > Collection > Accounting Interface
Ledger
Product Brief
4 G
aïa BCC functional
Overview
The Gaïa BCC software solution is They are marketed in the same
composed of integrated, functional package, and perfectly integrated
modules. around a single database.
Solution Generation
Customer management Requests management
consult, search, create, modify propose commercial offers
a customer attribute the service identifier
personalize the relationship evaluate the feasability
with the customer, sending activate the service
targeted messages
Account management Collection management
display account agreements payments
consult account establish and validate the bill-books
collect payments
Dispute management refinds
create disputes
create decisions Fault management
modify disputes create trouble ticket
Contact management consult TT
generate customers contacts
according to customizable rules
Invoices management
Follow contacts and affect them display invoices
to agents baskets for action display itemized bill
o
verview of customer data:
customers contact numbers, generated activity volume, financial
general characteristics situation, customer interaction history,
(segment, agency, agent), marketing messages…
c
ontacts history definition of management rules for
customers contacts according to
a
llocation of contacts to be the operator’s organization:
followed-up in the commercial
definition of different types
staff trays
of contacts, follow-up rules,
m
anagement of the Front Office and commitment in terms of
commercial tree diagram schedules, process priority, and
allowance rules to commercial
m
anagement of commercial
entities, etc.
entities representatives:
definition of contact numbers marketing attributes management,
and job attribution inside an entity customized per customer
category
parameterizing of targeted
marketing messages
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4.1.2 Access point to the whole set of Gaïa modules
activation order
(automatic or manual)
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4.3 Business enterprises Management - G.client
Corporate management needs a The CSP must be able to process
solution that perfectly suits the most with no delay a bill grouping or
diversified needs. detailed analysis of any customer.
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c
ustomized simulation: This feature global simulation: the Telco has
simulates the impact of a TO the possibility to test a TO during
proposed to a customer during a a billing period (according to the
defined period in order to show commercial target) and to check
the advantages that he could have its impact before launching the
benefit from while subscribing to commercialization of this TO.
this offer.
broadband access
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4.6 Financial Management - G.financial
Billing all products and services, Responding to these needs, the
reducing billing waiting periods, G.financial module is a complete tool
optimising the follow-up of debts, for handling all aspects of national
managing disputes, avoiding legal and international billing, collection
disputes are all important objectives and customer accounting:
for an Operator wishing to optimise
his cash flow and limit financial collection
risks. Financial features pertinent in Prevention of legal disputes
Front Office mode can be accessed Receipt of payments
through the use of Gaïa BCC’s GUI Follow-up of unpaid invoices
allowing the handling and follow-up Handling of disputes
of invoices, disputes, bill-books and
collection. customer auxiliary accounting
Accounting entries
Printing of journals
Closing of accounts
Management Management
of passive equipment of active equipment
equipment consultation, creation, consult, create, modify
modification (MDF, Distribution management of reports
point) in a sub-network and qualifications
influence area association support functionalities
project association for massive updating
The operator also benefits from a view of its network perfectly adapted to its
needs selecting itself the indicators and reports issued for a global balance
or for a precise analysis of the network by geographical, technological,
equipment area… even previously thanks to data historic.
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4.7.1 Benefits of G.network
API
external applications
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Gaïa BCC solutions are available Oracle Database 10gR2 provides
upon main Unix systems on the a great upgradability and reliability
market (AIX 5.3, HP-UX Itanium 11i, in cluster and mono server
Solaris 10, Linux RedHat ES/AS 4, configuration. This database includes
Linux Sles 9). Gaïa BCC solution comprehensive functionalities for
is a confirmed solution concerning the OnLine Transaction Processing
performances (several references (OLTP), and Business Intelligence. It
currently operating) capable of great provides a total open access to Web
volumes processing: services through SQL, Java, XML and
standard Web interfaces.
m
anagement of thousandof
customers; Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
guarantees performances and peak
p
rocessing and Rating for dozen of upgradability for systems from small
millions of CDR/day; departmental servers operating with
Windows or Linux, to UNIX mainframe
c
onnection of hundreds of computers and servers. Moreover,
branches to a centralized system. the Oracle Database is the only one
to have 19 independent security
The application scalability is, among evaluation.
others, guaranteed by the use of
a high level technological base
(Oracle 10g Automated Storage Oracle Application Server 10g
Management, Oracle Real Application
Clusters). The new release of the Oracle
Gaïa BCC can be interfaced with Application Server 10g, of Grid
market supervision tools (Patrol, Computing type, proposes several
HP Openview …). new functionalities, as improvement
in integration and in Web-services
infrastructure. It generates additional
Oracle Database 10gR2 cost-cutting, performance and overall
management improvement. This
The technological evolution of server relies on open standards,
Gaïa BCC towards Oracle based upon a powerful evolving J2EE
Database 10gR2 database server server, with business portal software
provides benefit from the latest, but (Oracle Portal 10g), a reactive “cache”
nevertheless proven, release of the and access management system.
most widespread database.
Its performances, reliability, and Providing the full support of services-
security, but also advanced oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle,
functionalities, as clusterization, Oracle Application Server 10g
constitute the main benefits. supplies upgradability, availability,
easy to operate (exploitabilité) and
unequalled security.
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The SSO server has the following Oracle Automated Storage
advantages: Management (ASM)
a
dministration and management
Oracle Automated Storage
costs are reduced , as there’s
Management simplifies configuration
no need to manage several user
and storage management of the Gaïa
accounts;
BCC 6 database. The administrators’
fi
nal users connection is simpler as workload is therefore reduced.
a single user name and password The ASM release combined with
has to be memorized; Oracle Database 10gR2 ensures
s ecurity is reinforced, as a single automatization of more storage
user name and password has to management operations, and provides
be memorized, users will select an improved mechanism for storage
complex passwords and will write virtualization providing easier resources
them down somewhere. sharing.
O
racle Real Application Clusters Oracle Partitioning
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6 Interfaces with the other
solutions of the Gaïa
Business Solution
Sofrecom supplies a consistent and .watch: Front office scoring
G
transversal software suite, Gaïa, assistant that offers the opportunity
covering the whole Information to anticipate unpaid bills, to identify
System chain of a Telco, from network bad payers and to adapt the selling
to customer Management. process.
The Gaïa BCC solution is the heart of
the other Gaïa products.
G
.selfc@re: e-care including
directory features
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