Revenue Assurance is usually regarded as a business problem, to be addressed by staff with specialist financial or business skills. Yet this approach may not go deep enough to identify the true cause of problems. If billing records from network elements - the primary data input to a billing system - are missing, faulty or in error, no amount of clever processing can ever produce the correct results. Input data quality has a direct bearing on ultimate business failure or success.

This is why it is important to approach Revenue Assurance from a network-perspective. Usage data captured directly from the network, independent of the network elements provides a gold-standard reference for every individual call and service transaction. Whether your network is wireline, wireless or new generation IP-based, this network-centric view offers a unique set of business-critical insight to :

• Generate and verify usage-based interconnect charges
  
• Determine jurisdiction and quantify network traffic
  
• Accurately bill for network and service usage
  
• Identify lost revenue as a result of switch provisioning or translation errors
  
• Reduce losses from fraud and dark arbitrage
  
• Monitor and measure QoS for new VoIP based services
  
• Meet regulatory compliance
  
• Collaborate and share information using a Revenue Assurance dashboard
  
  Join this informative Webinar to hear real-life examples of how some of the world's largest service providers have recovered 10s of millions of dollars using the unique insights available from network signaling data.
  
  

  Web event leader: Dr. Jerry Lucas, President, TelesStrategies
  
  Speakers
  Scott Bryden, Revenue Assurance Manager, Agilent Technologies
  Introductions, overview of SS7 and usage data collection
  
  Joanie Tonkinson, Manager National Network Engineering-Billing, Sprint LTD
  SS7 applications for Interconnect Billing Validation and Traffic Insights
  
  Adam Davies, Senior Fraud Consultant, Cerebrus Solutions
  Fraud Applications using SS7
  
  Cameron Kane, Business Development Manager, Agilent Technologies
  Mining SS7 Data for unique insights
  
  Joe Sullivan, Director Cost and Revenue Assurance, Connexn Technologies
  The role of SS7 in the switch-to-bill chain
  
  Scott Bryden
  Summary