The answer resides in Cerylion’s unique technology breakthroughs (multiple patents pending) that have broken the code on the complexity of Telecom Expense and Resource Management. These breakthroughs have allowed Cerylion to build in ERP and supply chain concepts into CommADVISOR, while completely avoiding the common problems that have otherwise defeated this approach.
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100% Automation for uncontrollable data sources. In a typical ERP-level system, all components are carefully designed in advance to work together. However, a system for Telecom Expense and Resource Management, by definition, has no control over external data sources and/or applications on the carrier side. If the data inputs are inconsistent, how do you build and maintain a fully automated system? |
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Cerylion’s proprietary system and method for building composite applications* enables Cerylion to provide a unified, integrated ERP-level system. This allows the corporation to enjoy ERP qualities using external resources the corporation cannot control, and to use a high-performance system built out of components that were never designed to work together. |
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Makes 100% Automation possible , in a way that can reliably evolve with the unpredictable changes in the market requirements and data sources. |
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100% Automation for disparate players in disparate processes. A typical ERP system is data-driven, used primarily as a database of record, but it cannot be easily used to automate a business processes. Worse still, ERP-level systems often require the corporation to adapt its processes to fit the software. |
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Cerylion has a proprietary user-driven, service-oriented application model* uniquely designed to optimize dynamic and event-driven workflows. Because of this technology, CommADVISOR is a process-driven system which allows users to completely automate the workflow of business processes. No need to change your players or process. |
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Makes 100% Automation of a business process possible, without the hassles of implementing ERP. |
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100% Automation of disparate data feeds. Most business information systems have a small and finite set of adapters and brokers to homogenous independent sources. However, telecom data sources are characterized by a broad portfolio of disparate and heterogeneous data feeds and formats that make their integration become a high maintenance and risky problem. |
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Cerylion’s unique invention for dynamic late binding of persistent objects provides an object-orientation at runtime* capability. This allows CommADVISOR to accommodate new permutations and combinations of data sources while substantially reducing the complexity of integrating them into a complete system. |
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Makes 100% Automation possible at a carrier-class service level necessary for a mission critical business information system. |
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100% Automation with minimal maintenance. Hosted services are difficult to offer and deploy if the underlying software needs to be frequently updated. |
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The above mentioned ‘object-orientation at runtime’ provides CommADVISOR with another unique advantage: the ability to be offered as a hosted service while minimizing the maintenance involved with the deployment process. Object-orientation at runtime provides the capability to update certain software modules on-demand, without interrupting the current runtime system. |
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Makes possible 100% Automation requiring no installation or maintenance effort by users. An ASP service requires no installation. And, CommADVISOR can be continuously upgraded in functionality with no required action whatsoever by users…no version downloads, no hassle. |
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100% Automation for incomplete and inaccurate data. Most business information systems assume the availability of consistent, complete and accurate input data as a precondition to their operation. However, Telecom Expense and Resource Management must assume that carrier data will be inconsistent, inaccurate, and incomplete to a degree that defies automation by traditional methods. |
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Cerylion has developed a series of proprietary technologies that are uniquely optimized to resolve these ‘show stoppers’, and enable CommADVISOR to provide complete automation of all data processing at the most granular level.
Cerylion’s unique Context Management* technology enables the automated completion of complex binary relationships among heterogeneous data structures, thereby addressing a pre-condition for sustainable data processing of telecom data resources. |
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Makes possible 100% Automation of incomplete and inaccurate data. |
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100% Automation for disparate billing formats. The primary financial resource in a Telecom Expense and Resource Management system is the carrier bill. There are many of them and they vary vastly in structure, format, completeness and accuracy of the detailed data (both between carriers and within the same carrier’s e-billing feeds). |
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Cerylion’s unique Collectors and Balancers* technology enables CommADVISOR to analyze disparate and heterogeneous bills at the most granular level of each charge for each line and each service, thus overcoming the inherent limitations that defies automation of line and service analysis using traditional approaches. |
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Virtually eliminates the need for manual analysis of bills by auditors and other experts, because the knowledge about how to audit bills is in the system, not in the expert using the system. |
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100% Automation of Contractual Terms and Conditions. The second major pillar of financial analysis is the carrier contract. These also vary vastly in their structure, format and articulation of terms and conditions that bind the service to a given price at a given point in time. In fact, carrier contracts are typically available only as free text documents that have no binding data structure and thus are subject to many data integrity issues when having to cross-reference or cross-analyze terms and conditions of related tariffs, contracts, IBCs, OMRs, quotes, and application for services, etc. |
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Cerylion’s unique Registers and Selectors* technology provides the industry’s first completely automated calculus of contract terms and conditions and enables the analysis of each term and each legally binding document to determine the expected price of each service, on-demand. The Registers and Selectors technology further enables the automated tracking and monitoring of contract utilization, termination liabilities and other key financial drivers that have an impact on the leading indicators of telecom spend analysis, as well as the persistent optimization of service allocations across contracts. |
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Eliminates the labor of monitoring contracts. Now you can completely avoid dependency on labor intensive work of contract experts for monitoring the contract. This means that procurement can ensure optimized financial decisions based on clear ROIs and automated tracking of spend and utilization. |
