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Highest Spending Services


This use case lets the user generate a report showing which service agreements have the highest total charges, independent of usage type.

Table 34 lists and describes the use case functions.

Table 34. Highest Spending Services
Function
Description

Name

Highest Spending Services

Feature Area

Analytics

Description

The user views a report showing which service agreements have the highest total charges, independent of usage type.

Primary User

Administrator, manager, and subscriber; CSR administrator and user.

Trigger

  • The user clicks the Analytics tab, and then clicks the Top X Reports subtab. A report list appears and the user clicks the hyperlink for Highest Spending Services.
  • The user selects Highest Spending Services from the Top X Report drop-down list.

Prompts

Report Selection Criteria

Period Range (Default: Current period):

  • The user selects a start and end reporting period.

Number of Results

  • Default: 10
  • The user can select the number of resulting report query rows to view from the following preconfigured values: 10, 25, 50, or 100.

Drop-down List:

  • Highest Spending Services (Default)
  • Most Expensive Calls
  • Longest Calls
  • Most Frequently Called Numbers
  • Most Frequently Called Destinations
  • Most Frequently Called Countries

Page Tabs

  • Report (Active)
  • Batch Request

Active Hyperlinks (Breadcrumbs)

  • Analytics. Displays the list of Standard reports.
  • Top X Reports. Displays the list of Top X reports.

Report Content

Page Title:

  • Highest Spending Services

Header:

  • Report Details
  • Number of items

Columns:

  • Service Number (With a hyperlink to the Highest Spending Services by Service Agreement report).
  • Name
  • Account Number
  • Total Charges. Sorted highest to lowest, with a hyperlink on the letter T to the Service Billing Trend report for the service agreement.

Total Row:

  • Total (literal)
  • Number of calls
  • Total charges

Business Rules

The current bill period range (single period) is used as the default criteria.

Standard Features

  • Printer-friendly view
  • Download CSV or XML

Configuration Points

  • Report Threshold Value for Batch Mode. Determines the number of result set lines above which a report must process in batch mode instead of as an online download. You can set values for each type of download file:
    • CSV. The maximum number of output lines.
    • XML. A percentage of the CSV threshold value (Default is 20%).

      For example, if the CSV report threshold is set to 3,000 result set lines, then an XML threshold value set at 20% must process in batch mode when it has 600 or more result set lines.

  • All report detail table columns are sortable and display in descending order (highest to lowest); you can change the default sort order to ascending.

Functions

  • Drill-down links are for the selected service agreement.
  • Oracle Self-Service E-Billing calculates the total charge for each service agreement and returns the number of results selected.
  • If the report result set is less than the number of results selected, the available data set displays.
  • If there are ties in the total charge amounts, Oracle Self-Service E-Billing returns service agreements from lowest to highest until it equals the total number requested (10, 25, 50, or 100).
  • Users can submit a batch request for this report.

Main Path for Viewing the Highest Spending Services

The main path to view the Highest Spending Services report is as follows:

The user selects the Highest Spending Services report from the List of Top X Reports or from the drop-down list of reports.

Oracle Self-Service E-Billing displays the top ten records of the Highest Spending Services report for the current period.

Alternate Paths for Highest Spending Services

Alternate paths can occur in this use case.

The user specifies query parameters

The user enters start and ending report dates or chooses a different number of results.

Oracle Self-Service E-Billing retrieves the report data based on the selected criteria and displays the Highest Spending Services report.

The user clicks the Download action (CSV or XML)

Oracle Self-Service E-Billing downloads a report in the selected format.

The user clicks the Printer Friendly action

Oracle Self-Service E-Billing displays the print page.

Exceptions for Highest Spending Services

Exceptions can occur in this use case.

The user encounters a system error

Oracle Self-Service E-Billing invokes the error message use case.

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