Part II Setting Up Pricing for Real-Time Rating and Pipeline Manager

This part describes how to configure real-time and pipeline rating in an Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) system when Pricing Center and Pipeline Manager is used for pricing and rating. It contains the following chapters:

• About Creating a Price List

• Understanding the Sample Pricing Plans

• Setting Up Real-Time and Pipeline Pricing and Rating

• Configuring Resource Rounding

• Managing Sub-Balances

• About Real-Time Rating

• About Pipeline Rating

• Policy-Driven Charging

• Working with Promotions

• Working with Provisioning Tags

• Working with Extended Rating Attributes

• Working with Price Tags

• Rating Implementation and Customization

• Testing Your Price List

• Using the XML Pricing Interface to Create a Price List

• XML Examples of Creating Pricing Components

• Real-Time Rating Based on Multiple RUMs

• Rating Based on Multiple RUMs with Pipeline Manager

• Real-Time Rating Based on Date and Time

• Rating by Date and Time with Pipeline Manager

• Real-Time Rating Based on Event or Resource Quantity

• Setting Up Zones for Batch Pipeline Rating

• Real-Time Rating Using Event Attributes

• Migrating Pricing Data from Legacy Databases

• Improving Real-Time Rating Performance

• Pricing Utilities