Carrier Call's product XCarrier addresses key business drivers for telecommunications companies by: Improving margins:
Provides increased negotiating power across all routes, including routes currently not managed daily. The platform allows frequent visits to the market with little effort. Increasing revenue opportunities:
Act immediately on special prices, discounts and short term low price offerings with the fully automated voice trading platform. Pointing out code mismatches:
Inconsistent codes between your supplier and your own settings can cause negative margins and high financial risk because calculations and end-user prices are based on incorrect assumptions. For instance, you believe to terminate calls to a fix-line destination but your supplier has the same prefix assigned to a mobile destination and therefore charges you a higher price. XCarrier is making you aware of code differences and highlights potential risks. Improving operating efficiencies:
Direct integration of procurement outputs to the switching and billing units improves operating processes and efficiency. XCarrier covers the entire lifecycle from creating and using business processes to provisioning voice carrier network elements. Main features and functions
The following features are included in the main and enhanced XCarrier product (additional modules) and deliver sophisticated functions for your daily voice carrier business. Reference Data Management (destination/codes)
Full support for breakout and area code handling. The unique destination and code sets guarantee data integrity between the switch and billing system. Destination and Code mapping
The built in destination and code mapping module eliminates code mismatches and redundancies in the data exchanges between your own code list and the one you receive from each other interconnected carrier. As soon as you activate new codes from your supplier and these
differ from the previous, XCarrier alerts you and automatically proposes a new mapping. Unknown destinations can be mapped to one destination or a main destination can be the source for many sub destinations. Destination and code version control
Version control on destinations and code lists allows you to prepare for future changes. ABC analysis
The ABC report lists the current position in the least cost routing (LCR)
ranking for a selected carrier. LCR and bandwidth information allow you to focus on relevant destinations. Combining operational data and calculated target prices deliver all
necessary facts for successful price negotiations. Unlimited destination code list imports
The import is flexible and allows easy import from various sources with their unique formats.
Comparison is based on destination code list and optional price information
If the price per destination is available, you receive even more relevant information to allow fine granular settings for an automatically generated very detailed least cost routing
(LCR) table. Destination overview and details in one worksheet
All comparisons are available in one place where filters and searches are available to analyze data. You see an overview at destination level and you have the possibility to hide or show matching code details. Pricelist management
The pricelist grouping feature allows
creating base price lists and additional price lists for specific carriers. This feature allows you to treat your customers individually by offering targeted price-lists. Pricelist distribution
With automated pricelist distribution, you are no longer faced with repetitive manual tasks. Automation guarantees on-time and accurate delivery of information to your customers. Invoice reconciliation
Usually you like to verify supplier’s invoices. This is a challenge in the international carrier business and can end in disputes between suppliers and buyers. The invoice reconciliation plug-in compares invoices with actual data and points out differences on usage and amount. Sophisticated data loader for price and code list information.
Original buying pricelists are imported and visible for your purchasing agents. LCR calculation based on best price and quality parameters
Create several routings based on buying price and quality parameters. It is possible to eliminate negative margins by excluding expensive routes. Reference data management for other systems
Use one up to date source of actual business information data. Reconcile central date with data from your existing legacy applications like quality system, retail billing system, switch, statistic system, etc. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
XCarrier can use LDAP to authenticate its own user base. This allows you to integrate XCarrier into your ICT infrastructure and to manage security in one place. User and group permissions are defined in XCarrier while user verification and user group association is defined in your existing LDAP environment.
System RequirementsServer side requirements
XCarrier’s server system is an open, object-based, N-Tier application platform which handles large volume of data. Created with modern Application Development tools, it provides a user-configurable environment for rapidly adapting to existing and new business requirements.
XCarrier’s scalable server architecture allows near continuous operation ensuring optimum usage of the chosen hardware platform. The server runs against an ORACLE database on Windows NT 200X Server, HP-UX, Sun Solaris UNIX or LINUX (Red Hat, SUSE or DEBIAN), offering users the choice of a platform to suit their processing requirements. Hardware
(min. req. for Intel Platform and depending on XDR volume per
month)
Intel Dual- or Quad-Core XEON processor (>=3.00 GHz)
at least 8GB Memory
20GB System Hard disc space
72GB Data Hard disc space
100 Mbps NIC (Network Interface Card)
other hardware as required from the Operating System Manufacturer Software
(min. req. for Microsoft Platform)
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition (English)
ORACLE Database Version 11g or newer
ORACLE Application Server for J2EE Version 10g or newer
(SUN Java System, Tomcat, JBOSS or IBM WebSphere are also supported) Client side requirements
To use the XCarrier application, you need a Java virtual machine (Java Plug-in) installed within any common current web-browser. We recommend: - Microsoft Internet Explorer (Version
7.0 or above), Firefox (Version 3.0 or above) or Netscape Navigator (Version 8.0 or above).
- Sun Java Plug-in (JRE Version 1.5 or above).
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