This guide provides an overview of Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Elastic Charging Engine (ECE).
This guide is intended for a wide reading audience, including:
Business analysts who want to understand the charging capabilities of ECE as a rating engine.
Developers who configure and extend the ECE software to support business requirements. For example, a charging domain expert who makes decisions about how network events are charged.
Application administrators who configure ECE to support company product offerings and need to know how ECE processes requests for charging from the network.
Solution architects or designers who need to know how ECE works within a broader charging system.
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ECE documentation and additional Oracle documentation; such as Oracle Database documentation, is available from Oracle Help Center:
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The following table lists the revision history for this book.
| Version | Date | Description |
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| E70766-01 | April 2016 | Initial release. |
| E70766-02 | September 2016 | Documentation updates for ECE 11.3 Patch Set 1.
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| E70766-03 | December 2016 | Documentation updates for ECE 11.3 Patch Set 2.
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