Preface

This document provides an overview of the Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) invoicing software, including designing and generating invoices, correcting invoicing, and so on.

Audience

This document is intended for system administrators and developers involved in invoicing.

Accessing Oracle Communications Documentation

BRM documentation and additional Oracle documentation; such as Oracle Database documentation, is available from Oracle Help Center:

http://docs.oracle.com

Additional Oracle Communications documentation is available from the Oracle software delivery Web site:

https://edelivery.oracle.com

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Document Revision History

The following table lists the revision history for this book.

Version	Date	Description
E16707-01	November 2011	Initial release.
E16707-02	May 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 1. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16707-03	August 2012	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 2. Added documentation for "Configuring the BRM-BI Publisher Invoicing Integration to Support Multischema Systems".
E16707-04	March 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 4. Added "Designing and Generating Invoices in Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 11g" chapter. Replaced multischema information with multidatabase information.
E16707-05	July 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 5. Made minor formatting and text changes. Updated "Designing and Generating Invoices in Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 11g" and "Invoice Utilities" chapters.
E16707-06	October 2013	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 6. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added "Enabling the Display of Customer Details on the Web".
E16707-07	August 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 9. Made minor formatting and text changes. Added "Generating Invoices for Hierarchical Accounts with BI Publisher 11g" section. In the "Sending Invoices to Accounts That Do Not Use the Invoice Payment Method" section, added SEPA to the Payment Method IDs table. In the "pin_inv_accts" utility section, updated the pay_type parameter description to include SEPA. In the "pin_inv_send" utility section, updated the pay_type parameter description to include SEPA.
E16707-08	October 2014	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 10. Updated the "Installing BRM-BI Publisher Invoicing Integration Package" section.
E16707-09	January 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 11. Added "Using Hyperlinked Invoice Templates".
E16707-10	June 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 12. Updated the "Configuring the Infranet.properties File for pin_inv_doc_gen with BI Publisher 11g" section. Made minor formatting and text changes.
E16707-11	August 2015	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Maintenance Patch Set 1. Updated the "Installing the Invoice Data Manager" section.
E16707-12	April 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 15. Updated the following sections: Generating Corrective Invoices About BI Publisher Reports for Invoice Document Generation pin_inv_accts
E16707-13	August 2016	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 16. Updated the following sections: Specifying Event Fields to Cache for Invoicing Decoding Cached Event Data for Invoicing Using an XSLT Processor Other Than the Xalan XSLT Processor
E16707-14	August 2017	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 19. Updated the following section: Installing the Invoice Data Manager
E16707-15	December 2019	Documentation updates for BRM 7.5 Patch Set 23. Added the "Setting the Maximum Number of Items in the Search Template"section.