Introduction

This BRM Pricing Foundation 7.5 with Pricing Design Center training will help you develop an in-depth understanding of how to build price plans using Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center. Work with expert Oracle University instructors.

Participants in this training program will learn to:

• Describe the pricing model and rating concepts.
• Design price plans using the Pricing Design Center.
• Test price plans prior to implementation.
• Price planning and design with the Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center.

Personal Benefits

By investing in this course, you'll get the chance to explore pricing concepts, including building products with a tiered rating and creating bundles with product dependencies. You'll also walk away with the knowledge and skills to implement different types of discounts in pricing. During the hands-on lab exercises, you'll build and test several different types of price plans.

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

• Analyst
• Implementer

Training Objectives

• Configure charges based on time, quantity, zones, and other attributes in PDC
• Configure charge offers with included balances and rollovers
• Describe the pricing concepts and terminology
• Translate a product offering into pricing components
• Describe the key tasks that a user can perform in PDC
• Create setup data components that are required to create the pricing components
• Create one-time, recurring, and usage charges
• Create discounts
• Create bundles, packages, and package lists
• Verify the pricing configuration by generating activity in Oracle Communications BRM Elastic Charging Engine

Training Outlines

Introduction to Pricing

• Describe the pricing and charging concepts and terminology
• Describe the pricing components hierarchy and pricing components

Translating Product Offerings

• Identify the pricing components for a given business scenario
• Identify how to measure events and understand balance impacts

Overview of the Pricing Design Center

• Describe the tasks that a user can perform in Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC)
• Describe changesets
• Describe the PDC architecture
• Explain Target Engine profiles

Configuring Charge Offers

• Describe types of charge offer
• Create and configure charge offers with basic charges
• Configure validity and rollover
• Configure charges based on the quantity of an event

Configuring Discount Offers

• Create and configure discount offers and discounts
• Create discount filters and triggers

Bundling Product Offerings

• Describe the features of bundles, packages, and package lists
• Create bundles and packages and add them to the package lists

Testing Product Offerings

• Creating an account with Customer Center
• Generating sample ECE usage and ratings the usage
• Loading the rated events into the BRM Server database
• Verifying the usage charges
• Billing the account

Attribute-Based Charging Using Selectors

• Describe attribute-based charging
• Describe selectors
• Create Charge, Discount, and Generic selectors
• Describe the steps to create a friends-and-family discount
• Use generic selectors in a charge

Time-Based and Zone-Based Charging

• Describe time-based charging
• Describe and create a time model and Special day calendar
• Describe zone-based charging
• Describe and create zone models
• Create a charge based on the time and zone of the event

Configuring Bundles with Included Balances

• Configure bundles Charge and Discount offers
• Create Charge and Discount offers with included balance