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Business Support and Control System (BSCS) is an end-to-end customer care and billing system, designed to deliver across all wireless and wireline networks in the worldwide marketplace. It supports your move into new territories, such as Internet and new-generation telecom technologies. .

BSCS is an open system, incorporating a CORBA API that simplifies the integration with other systems, such as customer relationship management systems (CRMs), and enables the use of enterprise application integration (EAI) middleware platforms. BSCS offers several interfaces. .

BSCS supports the mediation of activation requests to the switch (or provisioning in wireline networks), the collection of call records from switches, the generation of invoices with a customer-specific format and layout, and the automatic processing of payments requested or received from banks and credit card institutions. .

BSCS is designed as a client-server system with a componentized architecture, a relational database (Oracle) as common memory, a shared memory functionality for real-time updating, and a bus for real-time data transfer: .

The front end for the user consists of online applications with a graphical user interface running under MS Windows. These applications simplify the completion of business processes that require a significant amount of input from the BSCS user, for example, the input of customer data.

Mass transactions are handled by server batch applications running in an UNIX environment. The batch applications are employed for tasks requiring high performance without interactive input from BSCS users, for example, for rating and billing processes.

An ORACLE database contains the data for BSCS. Standard reporting tools can be used to extract information.

Reference data, balances and Reference Data Records (RDRs) are uploaded into the shared memory to guarantee real-time updating.

The Data Transmission Application (DaTA) server is an information bus that enables the fast and reliable transfer of available data and information between the interested applications.

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Note that BSCS is designed for network operators' business only and not for service providers. In BSCS you can create GSM contracts only with a port (IMSI), however, service providers have no knowledge of these ports. .

BSCS consists of several functional areas and each functional area contains several applications. The applications interact with each other and external systems via interfaces. Depending on the functional area, both open interfaces and proprietary interfaces are used.