BSS User Group F & A Work stream

2015, Budapest
Summary and Key Learnings
Najam-us-Saqib Ansari
Manager IN (Planning)

November, 2015

Main Theme

Capturing the Value of the Networked Society

what that means with regards to features and
architecture.

Focus and Highlights

1. CBIO 16
Ericsson celebrates the launch of CBIO 16
To be GA in December, 2015
Direct transition from current CBIO 4 to CBIO 16
Catalogue driven offerings
CBIO product has gained momentum and many operators
now have it
Seems Ericsson now focuses more on CBIO than standalone
charging or Billing.

2. Catalog-enabled charging and billing

Catalogue Manager was promoted by the Ericsson through
the event
Key to exploit the potential of Networked Society
Important part of CBIO and CS.
Fast TTM
Reuse of templates
Flexibility and user friendly interface for product design.

Focus and Highlights

3. Charging System 16
To be GA in June, 2016
Next version after CS6
Direct upgrade possible from CS5 to CS16
Catalogue Manager an important component
Many new Features giving more flexibility in rating and
charging
Reduced HW and foot print (almost 600% reduction in HW)
Virtualization/Cloud option available

4. Self-Care and CRM

Independent offerings as well as comes pre-integrated with
CBIO
360 degree view for CRM and Self-care.
Centralized offer creation
Workflow based order orchestration and provisioning
Process integration via SOA APIs

Catalogue Driven BSS

Architecture

Ericsson BSS Portfolio and

Roadmap

Evolution / Upgrade Paths

Challenges & Way Forward

Challenges
How to monetize the data growth in OTT era?
How to capture the value of networked society and potential
growth?
How to find new business avenues?

Way Forward
Partner with OTTs for custom and value added offerings and
products
Invest to have an agile BSS that can constantly meet new
needs and challenges
Innovative and non-traditional Offerings
Exploit the potential of IoT/M2M

The Staircase of Growth

Warids Contribution in Top

10 Requirements Process
Following Warid requirements was selected in top 10:
Triggering notification by PAM action.
Rationale: Better customer experience due to visibility of
scheduled custom
actions by SMS/USSD notification
Following requirements made to top 10 which Warid voted for:
Session & TPS Control on AIR
General Error generation on AIR(error code 100)
Delete offer feature in refill/sdp trees

Thank You