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Enhancing customer experience

Enhancing customer experience

Telia and Telstra are evolving their service architectures

Core Commerce for superior service experience

Are you playing a game of catch up to ensure customer needs are met with ease? Telecom customer experience must be considered in the context of broader service experiences that encourage and facilitate consumption of more services.

Consumer and enterprise expectations have never been higher

Core Commerce manages digital experiences, order flows and catalog interactions. Define and deliver what the customer wants, when they want it and in the best way. Good service experience encapsulates the traditional view of telecom customer experience and more.

For customer experience to really benefit, employee experience must be addressed too, so that employees can interact with systems on the customers’ behalf efficiently and effectively. Similarly, partners need to be able to cocreate new services quickly and easily. Moreover, it’s about cohesively managing the ever-expanding range and volume of new services enabled by new network capabilities - from gaming and streaming to critical communications, autonomous vehicles and automated factories.

Core Commerce satisfies four business imperatives

Consistent and contextual

Faster time to revenue

Easy partner enablement

Zero touch order handling

Make service experience the competitive differentiator

All touchpoints and interaction points for requests, enquiries and payment pass through Core Commerce. Every touchpoint is an opportunity to impress. These interactions are constant, either directly by customers or through an agent or advisor. Make these experiences consistent, contextual and personalized across channels. Minimize manual touch points in order handling.

Defining and managing services in Core Commerce systems needs to be faster and easier. Simplify experiences with intuitive journeys for CSP marketing teams modeling business segments and partners co-creating new service offerings.

Drive commercial success through enhanced CPQ

Communications service providers (CSPs) are entering non-telecom B2B services in search of new revenues, facing competitors with superior customer experience capabilities using self-service and faster responses for quotes. The demands of these complex services require investment, as CSPs’ legacy systems with siloed data are not fit for purpose. This Analysys Mason report discusses why the most effective solution is the deployment of a single ‘configure, price, quote’ process (CPQ) that can deal with all the complexities associated with telco B2B and B2B-to-customer/user (B2B2X) value chains, and increasingly important partner ecosystems.

This Analysys Mason report explores why communications service providers should deploy single CPQ systems that support the quote-to-cash process for complex service types. 

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Revolutionizing telco excellence

How the Ericsson and IBM collaboration is advancing telco competitiveness and efficiency

The telco industry is experiencing unprecedented transformation. The imperative to generate incremental revenue from new products-and the need for a comprehensive solution for sales, configure-price-quote (CPQ) and ordering-have never been more critical.

Through their transformative collaboration, Ericsson and IBM now provide Communications Service Providers (CSPs) the flexibility to choose their preferred Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, while leveraging Ericsson's industry-leading CPQ and order management solutions. In light of the Artificial Intelligence (Ai) revolution, this partnership promises to empower CSPs as they further navigate the challenges of the digital age.

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Catalog-driven omni-channel experiences powered by intuitive journeys

The catalog-driven architecture, directly impacts the time it takes for the business to launch new services/offers to market.

With the catalog at the center driving the offering, many manual steps are eliminated. In time, this enables business and technical teams to reuse configurations like building blocks again and again with reduced effort on each reuse.

Open, standardized APIs link to multiple channels for faster time to launch services and reduced integration effort.​

Service creation teams and ecosystem service co-creators can focus on the business of selling rather than rules and technical configuration.

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Improve service experience

The concept of customer experience is evolving into facilitating entirely new service experiences made possible by evolving networks and the emerging ecosystems of service co-creators. To support the shift to data driven operations, Core Commerce depends on advanced AI, automation and data analytics to shift from reactive to proactive.

Monetizing enterprise 5G with a simplified customer experience

This ebrief explores how communications service providers can streamline BSS operations and reduce complexity to grow 5G enterprise services

How many ends in end-to-end service orchestration?

How can challenges of complexity, scale, time to revenue, and life cycle management automation be met?

Explore 5G use cases and implications for BSS

Cater for differentiated service offerings enabled by 5G while supporting the business with faster time-to-market (TTM) for products and associated offers. Drive revenue potential from the management of B2B connectivity services and new ecosystem business models that go beyond connectivity. Support partner-driven business models, managing application and content partners for rich services with application/content ecosystem partners.

Getting creative with 5G business models

This ebrief examines three 5G consumer use cases: Immersive gaming, FWA for private homes, 3D Video-on-Demand (VoD).

Monetizing 5G immersive experiences

5G stadiums will bring a real-time, immersive experience to fans at venues and beyond. Be ready to support- 5G’s new network slicing capabilities.

Full steam ahead for Industry 4.0: Exploring BSS for smart factories

Explore Augmented Reality (AR)for inspection and remote support and BSS implications for B2B services.

Game Plan: BSS for 5G enterprise customer experience

This use case ebrief explores mobile esports, including multiplayer mobile gaming tournaments, and why communications service providers are uniquely qualified to be perfect partners for gaming organizers. 

 

BSS for sustainable choices: Exploring Electric Vehicle (EV) smart charging

Explore an Electric Vehicle (EV) smart charging use case and its business model.

5G Connected ports: Conceptualization to monetization enabled by BSS

Navigate  the digitalization journey that comprises the 5G connected ports strategy.

Enable ecosystem partner journeys

Being open and ecosystem enabled includes managing and supporting partners’ co-creation of offers and settlement. The richness of new service offerings is dependent on the ability to build, manage and maintain the ecosystem partnerships needed to adapt to dynamic market forces with agility, and steer towards optimal business outcomes.

IoT partner enablement in BSS: Readying CSPs for new IoT market opportunities

Analysys Mason surveyed 108 CSPs and IoT service providers, exploring CSP readiness to attract, retain and monetize IoT services for businesses.
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IoT partner enablement and monetization demand more automation in BSS

IoT connections may reach 6.2 billion by 2030. CSPs need to adopt a flexible BSS platform that can automate IoT activity and enable a resilient IoT partner ecosystem.

5G is an agent of change for IoT- Drive the BSS evolution for the IoT revolution

industries by enabling innovative IoT use cases. How can CSPs partner effectively in the IoT ecosystem that 5G enables?

Core Commerce portfolio

Our product portfolio is open, cloud-native, and ecosystem enabled.

With the catalog at the center, enabling business agility demands an API-first, modular, simplified approach at telecom grade levels of reliability, performance and availability for the following Core Commerce capabilities:

  • Contextual customer and partner journeys
  • Enterprise catalog including product lifecycle management
  • Dynamic, catalog-driven configure, price, and quote (CPQ) and order fulfilment, supporting any business segment or product offer. 

Customers are at the heart of the Core Commerce processes, and a CSP’s business revolves around them. By focusing on that we enable an intuitive omni-channel experience through our catalog-driven CPQ capabilities. This reduces the time to quote and provides customer centric service monitoring which enables closed-loop automation use cases, reducing order fall out and preventing service experience issues.

Core Commerce supports better customer experience and better service experience

Core Commerce supports better customer experience and better service experience

Digital Experience Platform

Consistent, secure and personalized access to information and applications.

Catalog Manager

Rapidly launch and enable new innovative offerings with simple user experience.

Order Care

Order management system for handling automated workflows and manual work activities across services.

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