Aria for Communications 1.pdf
Overview
Aria for Communications is a SaaS billing
Monetizes Connectivity and Beyond
- Dynamic telco & non-telco catalog
- Smart bundle management
- Partner marketplace & settlement
- Native multi-tenancy
Changes the Stakeholder Experience
- Hyper-personalization
- Multi-stakeholder accounts
- Headless omni-channel model
- Real-time billing
Enables Zero-Touch Automation
- Intervene-by-exception billing
- Business workflow automation
- Active ecosystem integration
- Data lake and AI integration
Delivers Your Cloud Native Strategy
- On-demand public-cloud solution
- TM Forum Open API compliant
- SaaS/PaaS cost advantages
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are actively shifting course to beyond traditional connectivity services to build a more agile and autonomous business and architectural foundation in support of opportunities driven by 5G/SDN (software defined networking), NaaS (network as a service), enterprise partnerships, and best-of-breed systems of engagement.
Aria is a new breed of vendor. Its SaaS billing and monetization platform is proven to manage order-to-cash processes for both telco and non-telco environments. It interoperates with cloud-native and legacy ecosystems using over 360+ APIs and TM Forum Open APIs as part of an automated Open Digital Architecture and Framework (ODA/ODF) aligned business support system.
Aria Specializes in CSP Revenue Diversification & Commercial Agility
Network Services and Applications Aria supports over 100 large enterprises and CSPs across multiple industry verticals enabling CSPs to monetize beyond connectivity and traditional telecom business models. It offers the widest range of monetization models for telco and non-telco products using subscriptions, usage rating and partner settlement models to create multi-faceted service plans. Aria processes rated and unrated usage records from networks, real-time charging solutions (OCS/CCS) and, telco and non-telco applications.
Multi-Industry Commercial Catalog
- Offers a powerful commercial product catalog for teams to create smart product plans.
- The platform enables enterprise co-creation, customer self-configuration and drives extensible service bundles that reduce catalog explosion.
Changes the Experience for Every Stakeholder
- Aria’s Omni-node™ captures complex hierarchies and sophisticated relationships between stakeholders, subscriptions and accounts. This enables empowered control over high-volume accounts, service sharing and indirect routes to market in scenarios such as parent-child, enterprise service plans, mass IoT subscriptions and reseller/B2B2X markets.
Best-of-Breed Omni-Channel Integration
- Operates headless as a system-of-record enabling omni-channel interactivity via modern systems of engagement such as CPQ/CRM, user apps, chatbots, partner portals, and more.
Real-Time Performance
- Leverages cloud performance to change the billing experience with features such as real-time proforma billing and workflow automation that improve time-to-cash and revenue assurance.
Data Streaming and AI Integration
- Streams data to external data solutions so businesses can build a holistic view of customers, products, and business performance.
- Aria can ingest data and AI routines to augment its business processes and functions enriching the monetization process and experience.
Aria Lowers the Cost-to-Serve Keeps your IT ecosystem prescriptive with active orchestration using 270+ standard events to drive proactive revenue assurance, distribute customer intelligence, capture revenue moments and much more.
Active Ecosystem Integration
- Enables zero-touch automation for the cost-to-bill.
- Policy automation provides governance and peace of mind over bill accuracy, usage processing, and payment processing.
Aria Lowers the Cost-of-Innovation, Transformation & Operations
Delivers Your Cloud-Native Strategy
- 100% configurable (no-code platform) enables business and IT leaders to become self-reliant and agile to lower time and cost-to-market for new services. Automated updates keep features current.
Legacy Integration and Transformation
- Replaces or augments legacy and best-of-suite business support system (BSS) architectures.
TM Forum Compliance
- Compliant with TM Forum Open APIs to standardize integration, avoids vendor lock-in and lowers the cost of integration.
Cost and Operational Public Cloud Benefits
- Operates on public cloud with the latest data security and privacy standards, removing reliance and risk in maintaining your own infrastructure.
Common CSP Use-Cases
Aria for Communications delivers business solutions and use-cases through configuration. Here are common use-cases for the communications market:
- Complex Account Management for B2C to B2B to B2B2X
- Mass IoT Subscription Management
- Hyper Personalization without Product Volume Explosion
- Build Your Own Plans
- Enable subscription plans to be created from reusable service elements and user measures.
- Bespoke Pricing
- Automated Top-up
Partner Management to Support O-Net & Non-Telco Plans
- Partner settlement rating based on user subscription and usage volumes.
- Partner revenue share allows sharing customer revenues by percentage points with partners.
- Generate reports and service analysis to reconcile with partner service bills.
Comprehensive Credit Management
- Multiple credit and refund models, including service and cash credits, credit memos, voiding and rebill.
Sub-Brand & VNO Enablement for Segmented Market Operations
- Launch new lines of business with total commercial and process autonomy.
Large Enterprise Bill Control for Proactive Payment Assurance
- Direct online customer access to bill and spend analysis, reporting and cost center allocation.
About Aria Systems
Aria Systems’ cloud-based monetization platform is the analysts’ choice, top ranked by leading research firms. Innovative enterprises like Adobe, Allstate, Comcast, Philips and Subaru depend on Aria to accelerate time to market and increase flexibility, enabling them to maximize customer value and grow recurring revenue through subscription and usage-based offerings.