Highdeal and the OSS/J Initiative

The OSS through Java™ Initiative

The OSS through Java™ Initiative is a working group of industry leaders who have joined resources to speed the development of innovative OSS/BSS solutions and enable fast deployment and integration of OSS components. Building on the success of J2EE technology in enterprise applications, the Initiative defines and implements an open, standard set of Java™ technology-based APIs that help jumpstart the implementation of end-to-end services on next-generation wireless networks and leverage the convergence of telecommunications and Internet-based solutions

Highdeal - First Rating and Billing System to Join the OSS/J Initiative

Highdeal has joined the OSS through Java™ Initiative (OSS/J) as a Focus member to speed the development of innovative OSS/BSS solutions and enable significantly faster deployment and integration of OSS components. The Highdeal solution is the first rating and billing system to adopt OSS/J standards to integrate more rapidly and easily its carrier class and convergent rating engine, Highdeal Transactive®, to OSS solutions.

“OSS/J APIs offer real value, not only in handling the complexities of integration, but also in helping to establish a well designed and open architecture that closely matches the industry’s vision for next generation OSS. The Highdeal / Sun / Intracom demonstration at this year’s TeleManagement World exhibition in France further convinced us of the advantages in joining the OSS/J Initiative,” says Eric Pillevesse, Highdeal CEO.

The Highdeal commitment in the OSS/J Initiative naturally leads to more specific attention towards the OSS Billing Mediation API.

OSS Billing Mediation API with Highdeal and OSS/J

“As the market place and customer demands change, Service Providers who can quickly rollout new services and actively bill for them, will find themselves in a very strong and competitive position. […] The OSS Billing Mediation API will help reduce the time to market for these services and provide a faster time to revenue.[…] The OSS Billing Mediation API allows billing ISVs to focus on features and capabilities as discriminators, but not have to repetitively deal with integration and compatibility issues.” (OSS/J Billing Mediation specification).

Highdeal integrated the client side of the OSS Billing Mediation API (JSR 130) with its Highdeal Transactive 3.x release, and ran demos at Telemanagement World Forum 2003 in Nice, France and Tokyo. This showed the capabilities of the API for fast and easy implementation and its independence towards the type of services rated and billed.

“The OSS Billing Mediation API was easy to implement and very well adapted for rating and postpaid billing of new and different services. Coupled with Highdeal capabilities, it gives service providers a high level of independence to tailor the application to their specific in-house needs, thereby cutting away massive layers of service development for both implementation and maintenance, plus reducing costs and the time to launch new services,” adds Eric Pillevesse.
Technical information on the implementation (answers to the OSS Billing API questionnaire) can be downloaded here.

For more information concerning the Highdeal involvement with OSS/J, please contact us at pso@highdeal.com.
For more information concerning OSS/J, please visit this website