You Need BRM When You have EBS – and Even When You Don’t!
- by bwalstra
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
Overall Evaluation
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
