Completely independent of imported components and operating on technologies approved by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation, the Bercut tariff planner is being developed as part of a project to modernize the ACS (automated billing systems) technology stack. The solution is suitable for both telecom operators and organizations in other business sectors.
Previously, the tarifficator was part of the Bercut BSS complex and was widely used only in the telecommunications industry, allowing large telecom operators for many years to charge units familiar to this segment: minutes, gigabytes and SMS.
Today, the Bercut tarifficator is a universal tool that can rate any type of service. This makes it a relevant domestic solution for all areas of business where it is necessary to settle accounts with clients and partners according to established parameters and prices per unit of service.
Thus, now companies outside the telecommunications services market can use the Bercut tariff plan.
Prerequisites for the emergence of a universal tariff
The creation of the universal tariff plan was influenced by two trends in the Russian market.
The first trend is the emergence of digital and partnership ecosystems.
Telecom companies are now moving towards enriching their product offerings with partner or pre-integrated products, which are increasingly located outside of traditional telecommunications services. In this regard, the requirements for the tariff plan are constantly expanding. If earlier operators had to charge only minutes, gigabytes or SMS, today the tariff plan package may include, for example, books, cups of coffee, metro rides, miles or kilowatts from a utility meter.
The simplification of the establishment and pricing of new non-standard services of partners for the telecom industry became the primary reason for the emergence of a single universal tariff plan.
The second trend is the concept of import substitution.
The need to comply with the regulator’s requirements in the field of import substitution encourages companies to update their products and the technology stack on which they are implemented. Unlike many software manufacturers, Bercut has set itself the goal of not just replacing imported products with Russian analogues, but implementing an approach to increasing business efficiency by expanding functionality when switching to domestic software.
“Most similar solutions still have a high load on the DBMS, which is why companies face extra costs for third parties (user data provided by third-party organizations and collected from multiple sources – editor’s note). Requests for remaining packages, services and discounts are sent to the DBMS, additionally loading the system. Understanding this problem, Bercut specialists managed not only to ensure the compatibility of the tariff planner with various databases, including those approved in the Russian Federation, but also to significantly reduce the load on them,” comments Daniil Fedotov, BSS Development Manager at Bercut.
The Bercut tariff planner now works not only with Oracle, but also with other popular DBMS (Postgres Pro, Red Database, and others).
The implementation of the universal import-independent Bercut tariff planner will allow companies not only to benefit from reduced costs of licenses and hardware, but also to optimize the total cost of ownership of the solution (TCO) by distributing the load between the tariff planner and the DBMS.
“According to preliminary calculations, the introduction of a new tariff plan can optimize the company’s costs for TSO by more than 15%. Changes in the logic of the tariff plan will no longer take as much time as they did before,” notes Daniil Fedotov.
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