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creating an overall systems architecture that allows the

organization to easily model various functionalities. This
chapter explores the many demands on the revenue assur-
ance environment and develops a concept of the ultimate
environment to support it.
6.3 – Special Purpose Revenue Assurance Systems – Rev-
enue assurance systems consist of more than the core
revenue management chain applications. Also included
can be special-purpose applications such as probes, sim-
ulators, rating engines, parallelization systems and fraud
management systems. This chapter considers each appli-
cation and its fit into the overall architecture.
6.4 – Assembling the Pieces of your Revenue Assurance
Environment – This chapter provides an overview and
summary of the overall revenue assurance systems envi-
ronment and offers some observations and conclusions
about how it can best be created.

Section 7 – Conclusion

Finally, this section summarizes the perspectives on revenue as-

surance and provides the reader with alternative frameworks for
moving forward.

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