Picture 1: All the basic information about the client.

The current version includes the following features:

• Displaying subscriber’s information
• Displaying active services
• Displaying consumption
• Displaying invoices
• Displaying call/content/SMS/MMS/GPRS history
• Subscription to e-bill
• Activation of services
• Top up
• CUG management

Picture 2: E-bills are part of Tusmobil's self-care.

Tusmobil’s selfcare enhances customer experience, generates new revenue, and reduces costs of introducing new services.

The following modules are included in this release:

• Balance Management
• Balance Monitoring
• Billing
• Convergent Subscriber Management
• Financial Management
• Order Inventory Framework
• In-memory data management capabilities that integrate Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management with Oracle In-Memory Database Cache
• Invoicing
• Partner Relationship Management
• Pricing Configuration
• Real-time Rating
• Reporting
• Subscriber & Hierarchy Management
• Subscriber Groups Management
• Self-Care Manager

Some of the new features are as follows:

• Enhanced Invoice Document
• Enhancements to Oracle In-Memory DB (IMDB, formerly TimesTen)
• JCA Enhanced Transaction Management
- JCA Multiple OBRM Accounts in One Transaction
• Limits to Shared Memory Size for “Big” Shared Memory Structures
• Support for Rebilling and Corrective Invoices

The following BRM components are no longer supported in OBRM 7.5:

• AAA Gateway Manager, replaced by Oracle Mediation Controller
• RADIUS Manager, replaced by Oracle Mediation Controller
• TIMOS Manager, replaced by Oracle IMDB

Tridens, an Oracle Gold Partner, offers consulting services, such as initial OBRM implementations, proof of concept, enhancements, upgrading, etc. To read more about our Oracle BRM services please click here.

My TusMobil mobile app. is used to retrieve and display mobile consumption (inside and outside of the TusMobil network.) The application was developed for the Android platform and supports Android 1.6 and newer versions.
From an architectural perspective, this is a client application that communicates with a web service which is deployed on the JBoss SOA Platform. This web service interacts with the billing system (Oracle Billing and Revenue Management – Oracle BRM) to retrieve the necessary user specific data. The data are then passed back to the client through the web service.

Figure 1: Every time the application starts, the splash screen appears

The main features of the client application are as follows:

Displaying purchased consumption – displays the current number of spent call minutes, SMS messages, MMS messages, data transmissions, and other services as a percentage (figure 2.). The user can then scroll through the list and select a specific widget to see more details about how much of a particular service has been used and how much is still available (depending on the users’ subscription type.)

Figure 2: Purchased consumption

Displaying additional consumption – includes other services used that are not part of the subscription plan. These services are displayed in a vertical list. Every list item contains the name of the used service and the amount charged for it. To give a user a more comprehensive view (figure 3,) a pie chart (of used services) is rendered at the bottom of the screen.

Figure 3: Additional consumption

Language settings – the application supports localization for both the English and the Slovenian languages (figure 4).

Figure 4: Language settings

Refreshing – the data are automatically refreshed every minute if the application is in focus. Users can also refresh data manually by simply tapping on the rotating arrows icon (figure 2, top right corner.)

TusMobil client was tested on the following devices: HTC Nexus One, HTC Wildfire, Google Nexus, and Samsung Galaxy S; the client application was also tested on emulator.

Lessons Learned Over 4 Years of Realtime Convergence with Oracle BRM

Tusmobil, the third largest mobile operator in Slovenia, has used Oracle BRM 7.3 since 2007 for realtime convergent charging of voice, video telephony, SMS, MMS, GPRS, and other VAS services for both prepaid and postpaid users. Lessons learned during the design, development, and four years of operations will be presented, including how we’ve dealt with performance and system optimizations. To achieve flexibility, we’ve used agile software development, a type of software engineering based on an iterative and incremental process, coupled with release management. The end result gives Tusmobil a major competitive edge by enhancing customer experience, generating new revenue, improving productivity, curtailing time to market, and cutting costs.

Primož Fideršek developing an Android application, based on Google Maps APIs.

Slides from the presentation.

Aleš Pristovnik introduces Android in Samsung Galaxy S Tab.

Below, you can see the slides which were shown at MC Mis.

Oracle’s partner program gives qualified software vendors easy access to the tools and resources necessary to develop and test their applications on Oracle technologies. These include the Oracle Communication Billing and Revenue Management (Oracle BRM or Oracle CBRM), Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Linux, and Oracle SOA Suite.

Underneath, a few highlights from the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference are displayed.

We demonstrated ESM in action with monitoring and managing of services, hardware, and Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (Oracle BRM.)

At the conclusion, we showed the architecture of ESM, and we listed and went into detail regarding the technologies which we use, such as MySQL, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Google Protocol Buffers, Hibernate, JBoss, Junit, and JBoss RESTEasy.

Below, you can watch a PowerPoint presentation on Slideshare.