How To Integrate SAP Convergent Mediation with SAP BRIM Solution?
Neshet Lluka
Monetize Your Subscription Economy | SAP BRIM | SAP Subscription & Usage Billing | Quote-to-Cash | Tolling As Service
Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute is a key player in the SAP BRIM Solution for monetizing the consumption (usage) economy. Its main goal is to aggregate consumption data or to enrich consumption data with additional information required for the rating and charging process. SAP Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute supports connectivity with any rating and charging API but has out-of-the-box integration with SAP Convergent Charging. It supports two modes of processing the consumption data: Batch Mode and Online Mode.
There are two ways how to integrate the SAP Convergent Mediation with SAP BRIM Solution. Let us see these two integrations.
Integration with SAP Convergent Charging
The standard way in SAP BRIM solution is to integrate SAP Convergent Mediation with SAP Convergent Charging. There are two agents for SAP Convergent Charging integration: SAP_CC_Batch and SAP_CC_Online respectively for batch and online rating mode. SAP Convergent Mediation has three types of agents: collection, processing, and forwarding. In this integration, the collection agent is typically used to read files or incoming streams from a source location. There are different source types that Mediation supports receiving, such as FTP, direct disk, etc.
In order to pass the correct data to the processing agent, SAP Convergent Mediation provides a predefined UDR format for communication with SAP Convergent Charging which makes the communication between systems easier.
Integration with SAP Convergent Invoicing
In addition to SAP Convergent Charging, SAP Convergent Mediation can be connected directly to SAP Convergent Invoicing as well. This scenario is commonly used in implementations where other than Convergent Charging rating and charging systems, are being used. In this case, SAP Convergent Mediation is used to read the output from the rating and charging system, enrich rating results with additional information necessary for the billing and invoicing process, and create billable items directly in SAP Convergent Invoicing.
In a full landscape of SAP BRIM solution, the integration of SAP Convergent Mediation with SAP Convergent Charging is the standard and best implementation.
You may go for the other option to integrate it with SAP Convergent Invoicing unless your project does not use SAP Convergent Charging and have other rating and charging system.
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1 年Hi Neshet Lluka..... Q> 1. how can we discard BART & connect convergent mediation directly to convergent invoicing ? 2. In use case-1 who will be doing the CDR management in absence of BART? 3. Can we directly connect convergent mediation to CC Core ? Thanks
SAP BRIM Manager |SAP CM |SAP CI | Telecom BSS Solution Architect
2 年May be I am commenting bit late on this, but what is the diffrence between SAP CC Online & Batch agent and what are the use cases for SAP CC batch agent?
SAP Convergent Mediation (by Digital Route) | SAP Convergent charging Consultant | 7+yrs
4 年In previous project, me with Dressler team have implemented the 2nd option. It's great idea and I think with your post this idea will be adopted by more SAP giant.
SAP ISU-FICA Functional - @Accenture || Ex. Infosys-KPMG-Wipro |
4 年Added to my current upskilling course calendar.. thanks.