TEOCO, the revenue management software vendors, and Netezza, makers of data warehouse appliances, have partnered to deliver a new network cost management tool. It promises to analyse months of detailed CDR data, giving a more complete picture than is possible using sample or summary data. The tool combines TEOCO’s software with Netezza’s platform to give an all-in-one appliance. You can read the press release here.
Only time will tell if the product is a success, but this partnership suggests that the gap between the niche of revenue management and that of general-purpose business analytics keeps getting smaller.
Eric is the Editor of Commsrisk. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.
Eric is also the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group (RAG), a global association of professionals working in risk management and business assurance for communications providers.
Previously Eric was Director of Risk Management for Qatar Telecom and he has worked with Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky, Worldcom and other telcos. He was lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He is a qualified chartered accountant, with degrees in information systems, and in mathematics and philosophy.
This is a very smart and logical move. Revenue Assurance is meant to merge with the existing Business Intelligence platforms. When you see the directions taken by RA (cost and margin assurance/optimisation, etc) it is obvious that you need an enterprise-scale BI-type solution to address that in a satisfactory manner. I’ve always believed that, eventually, RA vendors will build their RA-solutions on top of BI platforms. RA needs data from all departments, all systems to cover its ambitious goals. This is precisely what datawarehouse and BI solutions are there for…
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This is a very smart and logical move. Revenue Assurance is meant to merge with the existing Business Intelligence platforms. When you see the directions taken by RA (cost and margin assurance/optimisation, etc) it is obvious that you need an enterprise-scale BI-type solution to address that in a satisfactory manner. I’ve always believed that, eventually, RA vendors will build their RA-solutions on top of BI platforms. RA needs data from all departments, all systems to cover its ambitious goals. This is precisely what datawarehouse and BI solutions are there for…