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The course
is designed to provide the student with a comprehensive , end to end
understanding of a typical prepaid systems operational environment
and an in-depth review of the different areas of revenue risk
exposure from a leakage and fraud perspective.
Duration:
1 day
Overview:
The course will begin with a
review of the fundamental technical components of the prepaid
environment and how they work including:
 | SS7 and IN
Architectures (Voice / prepaid) |
| IP, WAP
and Program Parameter based prepaid architectures
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In addition to the technical
fundamentals, the course will focus on alternative methods of sales
and revenue capture and transformation (sales channels) and the
different exchange/partnership models and the vulnerabilities each
represents.
This course reviews the prepaid
environment from each of the 5 major prepaid operational frameworks
including:
| Traffic
Management (including voice, long distance , roaming, CAMEL, SMS,
MMS, content and GPRS) |
| Channel
and Sales Management |
| Rating and
Billing |
| Account
Management |
| Revenue
Recognition |
Each of these areas is reviewed
in terms of:
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Operational concepts and characteristics |
| Variance
by vendor and environment |
| Revenue
loss exposures |
| Fraud Risk
Exposures |
| Systematic
review of each component of the area |
| Review of
industry standard controls profile for each area
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Characteristics of a typical prepaid
billing system will be considered.
*This
is a workshop class and students will be expected to make
presentations, discuss situations from their own environment or
experience and work out the details of how to best attain “maximum
impact for minimum cost” in their own organizations
Students will be asked to research
their own prepaid environments and answer anonymous, in depth
questionnaires before attending the workshop. Workshops throughout
the day will help students to:
| Diagnose
and breakdown the operational characteristics of their own
Prepaid environments |
| Compare
their environments to the standard environment discussed
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| Develop
strategies for:
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Determining the level of revenue associated with each
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Determine the level of risk to revenue associated with each
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Defining
appropriate forensic and alternative control strategies for each
major service line.
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