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Business challenge<\/h2>\n

Our client is a leading Swiss provider of wholesale IP telephony services that reinforces business communications nationwide through their collaborative customer portal. To meet evolving demand for new services, the company decided to expand their portal with advanced telecom billing software to automate complex invoicing operations. To bring their idea to fruition, they chose to enlist the services of a seasoned technology partner who could complete the project efficiently, with the highest quality, and in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

As demand for our client\u2019s innovative services and solutions surged in the VoIP market, the company planned to broaden their range of offerings. Aside from implementing a billing platform telecom operators and other customers could benefit from, our client had a strategic long-term vision for building on their customer portal. The next step was to develop a dedicated provisioning system for automatic configuration of IP phones. Additionally, the customer portal itself required to implement the latest technologies, integrations with new solutions, and constant functionality enhancements.<\/p>\n

With years of telecom expertise<\/a> and successful software development in telecom billing<\/a>, Intellias proved a great fit. Our cooperation, which started with building a billing application, grew into a many-year partnership resulting in winning outcomes and business expansion for our client.<\/p>\n

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Solution delivered<\/h2>\n

Intellias gathered a strong engineering team that quickly delved into the project, set up the software development process<\/a>, and rolled out a fully functional billing product in just 10 months. Following this successful release, Intellias started supporting our client on many levels and on a constant basis.<\/p>\n

Billing<\/h3>\n

Our team built telecom billing systems software for our client from the ground up, providing requirements development and analysis, UI\/UX design<\/a>, implementation, testing, and support services. The software we developed ensures automated billing management and eliminates inefficient and time-consuming manual procedures for generating, validating, and documenting invoices.<\/p>\n

By adding highly customizable algorithms with support for different kinds of contracts (prepaid, postpaid, mixed), we not only simplified billing operations but minimized the risk of monetary losses and provided early warnings of possible misdemeanors with advanced fraud detection techniques.<\/p>\n

We integrated our client\u2019s telecom billing system with the user portal database and a third-party enterprise accounting platform. To cater to the growing needs of our client\u2019s customers \u2500 often large corporations with many departments \u2500 we developed an Organization Unit feature that enables billing by department. This allowed our client to increase their level of service by providing for more flexible cooperation with customers.<\/p>\n

Our engineers also supported the shutdown of our client\u2019s billing application after the company was taken over by and merged with a European telecommunications corporation. We ensured a smooth data transition from our client\u2019s application to the acquiring corporation\u2019s billing system.<\/p>\n

Provisioning<\/h3>\n

The next important milestone of the project was to provide automated configuration of Cisco, Snom, Aastra, and Panasonic IP phones through a dedicated system for provisioning of end plug and play devices using the DHCP protocol. Our team developed this system completely from scratch and brought it to production.<\/p>\n

Our client\u2019s provisioning solution automatically configures IP telephony systems, accelerating the setup of new devices for end users. With the help of security channels, all phones connected to the network are automatically configured by the server. This spares users the effort of setting up phones and minimizes operational costs otherwise needed for maintaining the technical support department.<\/p>\n

The system is now supported on the client\u2019s side, but we provide assistance and consulting<\/a> to the product maintenance team as needed.<\/p>\n

Customer portal<\/h3>\n

Through the years of our cooperation, we\u2019ve worked on three generations of our client\u2019s user portal, expanding it with new functionality and bringing it up to date with global technology trends. We started from enriching and upgrading our client\u2019s existing customer portal and then went on to develop the next version, giving the portal a refreshed look and feel and increasing its usability.<\/p>\n

Currently, our team is developing a brand-new edition of the portal application built on the latest technologies to keep the bar high for the system\u2019s performance, reliability, and supportability. The application features a newly rebranded and user-friendly interface with a responsive design that can be viewed on any device. We\u2019ve also significantly beefed up the portal\u2019s security, reduced the server response time, and increased the system\u2019s scalability.<\/p>\n

Our client\u2019s portal is a customer management system for administering IP telephony infrastructure. It serves users on several levels:<\/p>\n