BSS Evolution - Real-Time Rating & Charging , Policy Management

Our industry is rapidly evolving on a number of fronts, particularly when it comes to the management of customer life changing services. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are working to bring advanced business and pricing models to market for keeping pace with competitive offers and to deliver more consistent customer value. Such change in business strategy requires new functions within the Business Support (BSS) and Operations Support (OSS) systems architecture. It also means modifications to the business processes that define how services are sold, provisioned, managed and billed.

This report describes the basic features which a policy management solution should address, and how it ties with the rating and data discovery functions in meeting the business needs of today's complex service offering environment.