Highdeal Introduces New Hybrid
Payment Solution with Online Balance Management
London,
New York & Paris- October 11, 2006 - Highdeal,
the world’s leading provider of pricing, rating and
charging solutions, today announced the introduction of its
new real-time Online Balance Management solution, Highdeal
Transactive®.
Building on the award-winning Highdeal
pricing and rating solution, the new Online Balance Management
solution enables service providers to easily create and differentiate
new packages, offering flexible payment options such as hybrid
prepaid and postpaid plans and shared group payment plans.
It is designed to utilise real-time charging information from
any number of concurrent applications or blended services
in order to obtain on-demand balance information. It also
plays an integral role in protecting subscriber balances from
credit risk and overspend.
The Highdeal Transactive Online Balance
Management solution offers a number of key benefits including:
Prepaid/Postpaid hybrid payments
for subscriber groups:
Groups of related subscribers, e.g. families or businesses,
can benefit from diverse sets of payment methods. For example,
hybrid payment plans allow parents to recharge a child’s
prepaid account from their own monthly postpaid account. The
same can also apply with a business plan where all calls from
one employee to another can be charged to a single company-wide
postpaid balance.
Capped
postpaid plans, allowances and service specific wallets:
With the advent of triple-play bundles and new services, both
operators and their subscribers require increased control
over spend. The Highdeal Online Balance Management solution
allows spending limits to be set per subscriber and per service.
Limits may be managed either as monetary allowances or as
units of service usage, such as ’free SMS remaining’.
Limits can be applied to the prepaid, postpaid and hybrid
models, all in real-time.
Flexible
and dynamic charging logic:
Account charges and payment methods can be entirely dynamic
and determined in real-time based on any variation of network
session characteristics. For example, employee calls from
the same telephone can be charged to the employer during work
hours but, then charged direct to the employee on evenings
and weekends.
Account
life cycle management and dynamic alerts:
All accounts are managed with full life cycles including expiration,
locking and closure. Alerts can be issued when an account
balance reaches a threshold or expiry date.
Highdeal Transactive, provides easy configuration of charging
and balance management logic with a flexible, intuitive graphical
interface - the hallmark of Highdeal technology.
“Highdeal
has the technology and market focus to be well-positioned
to support service provider needs for convergent charging,”
Larry Goldman, co-founder and senior analyst at OSS Observer.
“The
new Highdeal Transactive Online Balance Management solution
is a pivotal piece of our Convergent Charging solution and
is a great extension of our market leading pricing and rating
solution. Highdeal is equipping service providers with the
tools to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, and to
differentiate their multiservice offerings with complete pricing
and packaging flexibility among an ever wider range of services
and payment mechanisms,”
Fergus O’Reilly, VP Product Strategy, Highdeal.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing
& Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained usage-based business
models coupled with real-time, multi-party transaction management, Highdeal
solves the billing problem for service providers. Proven by 200 deployments
in more than 50 countries, the Highdeal
Transactive® software solution provides greater business agility and
lower TCO. From telecoms, Internet and media sectors, to transportation, logistics,
and financial markets, businesses across the service economy rely on Highdeal
to increase their competitiveness. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.
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