acement for all usage processing or
looking to inser t an add-on element to help you cope with market demands,
MaxBill has the solution MaxRate: a stand-alone product for a dynamic market.
In today's world of emerging technologies and complicated business relationships,
providers need a powerful, maintainable, robust rating engine that can not only
support their current needs, but also keep pace with the rapidly changing marketplace
and constant internal and external demands to enhance their product offering.
MaxRate's powerful and efficient rating engine is capable of rating expanded
services, elaborate pricing strategies, discount structures and loyalty schemes.
MaxRate is both usage-based and event-driven to answer the needs of today's
service providers.
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Communication service providers

are providing ser vices directly to customers
and to third-par ty suppliers of value-added innovative ser vices such as Wi-Fi, IP,
broadband, m-commerce and location-based ser vices. Additionally, these ser vices are
developed and offered through a host of new relationships with resellers, other
carriers, external and internal content and network providers and dealers. MaxRate
has been specifically engineered to suppor t all of the above within communication
ser vice providers' current complex IT environments.
Utility service providers
are being forced to make changes in their IT infrastructure
to suppor t regulator y requirements. MaxRate offers these providers a path that
suppor ts the complex issues of processing and estimating metered usage while
e n a bl i n g t h e s e p r ov i d e r s t o e n h a n c e t h e i r c a p a b i l i t i e s a n d o f fe r i n g .
F U N C T I O N A L H I G H L I G H T S
Network usage/events/readings
processing
Retail and interconnect rating
H i e r a rc h i c a l u s a g e - b a s e d
discounting
Supports value-added services
Usage re-rating
GSM add-on for TAP
Utility add-on for consumption
estimations
rate
(rat)
n. A charge or payment calculated
in relation to a particular sum
or quantity.
A quantity measured with respect
to another measured quantity.
v. To calculate the value of; appraise
Max Rate
(maks rat)
n. A powerful rating engine that
processes high volumes of
ser vice , event and metered
usage.
I n n o v a t i v e R a t i n g S o l u t i o n s C O M P E T I T I V E R A T I N G
A s t o d a y ' s c o n s u m e r s g e t m o r e
accustomed to new products being rolled
out in shor t cycles, ser vice providers are
faced with the challenge of providing a
flexible infrastructure. This infrastructure
must be able to suppor t diver se and
changing rating models to accommodate
business demands throughout the lifecycle
of the product. MaxRate can move from
flat-rate to usage-based and distributed
revenue models; empowering ser vice
providers with the most advanced rating
engine ever devised.
Your competitive edge is derived from
the agility and flexibility of your ability to
rate and bill. With MaxRate, you will have
a new degree of freedom to let your
imagination and creativity introduce new
and advanced products ahead of your
competitors.
F A S T T I M E - T O - M A R K E T
Service providers' needs are continuously
changing and evolving in this competitive
e n v i r o n m e n t p r e s e n t i n g g r e a t e r
oper ational challenges. As IP-based
s e r v i c e s s u c h a s b r o a d c a s t i n g ,
enter tainment, communication and
connectivity take center stage, modern
and complementar y rating engines are
b e c o m i n g a b u s i n e s s n e c e s s i t y.
MaxRate's modular and stand-alone design
MaxRate incor por ates Ser vice Level
Agreements and networ k Quality of
Ser vice rating to accurately charge for
usage. It accounts for all usage and events
with audit trail reports for efficient tracking
of all operational and financial activities.
MaxRate's powerful rating capabilities can
process both incollects and outcollects
for intricate par tner compensation and
reconciliation.
means quick and efficient implementation.
MaxRate can be installed into your IT
infrastructure according to specified needs,
w i t h m i n i m a l r i s k a n d r e d u c e d
implementation effor ts and costs. No
matter how complex your environment,
MaxBill's experienced professionals can
assist you to achieve your fast time-to-
market demands. With MaxRate you can
quickly and efficiently tur n around
fundamental system changes when
required.
MaxRate can be implemented as a stand-
alone product or an integral par t of
MaxBill's complete Customer Care and
Billing suite, giving you the flexibility to
choose a system that best fits your critical
business needs. So if you need to enhance
the customer profiles to suppor t these
new ser vices, you may find it faster and
more efficient to implement other MaxBill
modules as well.
MAXRATE FUNCTIONALITY
MaxRate Instance3
MaxRate Instance2
MaxRate Instance1
MaxRate Instance4
Insertion
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Server
Usage
DB
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DB
MaxRate
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Loading
Illegal Data
Unguided
Unrated
Acquisition
Guiding
Rating
Rating
Plans
Product
Profile
MaxCare
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Customer
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Data
Tape
Network
Log File
Performance
Reports
Error
Logs A P O W E R F U L R AT I N G E N G I N E T O K E E P PA C E W I T H
T H E R A P I D L Y C H A N G I N G M A R K E T P L A C E
R E V E N U E A S S U R A N C E
A N D G R O S S P R O F I T S
As products and ser vices become more
complex and difficult to rate, money
may be lost on unrated or unaccounted
usage . Revenue leakage due to the
complexities of third-par ty business
scenarios, inter-carrier agreements or
other par tners can affect your bottom
line. MaxRate can compute your gross
profits for each event enabling you to
keep track of profitability on both the
product and customer levels.
MaxRate accounts for all usage and events
with audit trail reports efficiently tracking
related operational and financial activities.
All data records are immediately re-
evaluated to detect fraud and other
misalignments. Additionally, MaxRate can
output r ated usage into exter nal,
third-par ty Decision Suppor t Systems
(DSS) or data warehouses.
With MaxRate, you can ensure that once
you have provided your customers with
the services you offer, your company will
be capturing the revenue from ever y
s o u r c e r e l a t e d t o t h o s e s e r v i c e s .
Revenues for IN, international, IP, wireless
or value-added services can be computed,
captured and repor ted according to your
company's different business units,
locations, affiliations or any other grouping.
H I G H P E R F O R M A N C E
A N D S C A L A B I L I T Y
Several instances of MaxRate can be
installed on one or more ser vers and
run in parallel to increase operational
throughput. A centralized controlling and
monitoring device facilitates managing the
different instances to enable automated
scheduled batch processing as well as on-
line processing. The scheduler can be
activated through GUI or through a
suppor ted API.
Usage records can be processed on a
real-time basis and customer balances
can be updated in near real time .
MaxRate's scalable design can handle
rapid and unlimited increases in customer
numbers and traffic volume.
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MaxRate can rate any combination of products and services. Its service-neutral rating
engine can process a high volume of usage records acquired from various external
devices and gateways, handling simultaneous, multiple input streams. MaxRate suppor ts
pay-per-speed, pay-per-bandwidth, pay-per-view, pay-per-event, volume-based and IP
time-based events.
MaxRate is unique in its ability to handle meter readings and complete estimated
readings for multi-utility vendors based on thermic tables, customer profiles and
historical information.
MaxRate enables rated usage to be consolidated into one environment, setting up
the convergence of your bill. MaxGen MaxBill's billing module can complement
MaxRate's capabilities with convergent billing, enabling the flexibility to merge or
diverge convergent services onto one or more invoices based on your preferences
or your customers preferences.
P O T S , L O N G D I S TA N C E , P R E M I U M S E R V I C E S ,
PREPAID, INTERNATIONAL
WIRELINE VOICE
GAS, ELECTRICITY, WATER, MUNICIPALITY, WASTE
UTILITIES
EDUC ATION, GAMING, FIREWALL AND SECURITY
MANAGEMENT, APPLICATION AND WEB HOSTING, IP VPN
VA L U E - A D D E D
U M T S , 3 G , WA P, G S M , G P R S , A N A L O G , TA P
WIRELESS
A S P, F R A M E R E L AY, I S D N , X D S L , I S P, VO I P,
E N T E RTA I N M E N T
IP / DATA
CABLE, SATELLITE, PAY-PER-VIEW, VIDEO CONFERENCING,
VDOOIP
VIDEO PARALLEL PROCESSING
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M U L T I - C U R R E N C Y
MaxRate suppor ts multiple currencies
within the same installation. Multiple
currencies can be configured at the
individual customer level enabling providers
to cost-effectively suppor t the needs of
their diverse, international customer bases.
Usage tariffing can be done in more than
one currency to enable accurate pricing
for foreign currencies.
R A T I N G M A N A G E M E N T
MaxRate simplifies the definition of rates
and tariffs. Ever y change, including the
addition of a new product or ser vice, is
done in just a click of a button using the