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.
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…