About the Revenue Assurance Roundtable

Dear Colleague:

Welcome to the Revenue Assurance Roundtable, a free, peer-to-peer community where RA experts share their knowledge and stay on the cutting edge of a telecom business that’s moving incredibly fast.

Hello.   I’m Dan Baker, research director of TRI, an analyst firm that’s been tracking the RA market since 2001.  And it’s gratifying to see the RA profession and practice getting the recognition it deserves as the leading revenue protector and business optimizer of telecoms large and small.

The Roundtable was inspired by an informal meeting of senior RA leaders I attended last year.   The execs sat around a small conference room and shared their successes, frustrations, and war stories.   While the discussions were serious, they were also lively and fun.   And that’s the tone we’ll set for this Roundtable: frank, honest dialogs with experts who speak their minds, challenge assumptions, and dream big dreams.

Here are the benefits of becoming a regular visitor to the Roundtable. . .

• Interviews and articles featuring leading Revenue Assurance experts from both the carrier and vendor communities.    

• Advice on how to manage and grow your RA practice as well as leverage the skills and tools of third party service and software firms.

• Sweeping coverage of the RA discipline.   We will not only cover traditional revenue assurance, billing quality, and cost management issues, but also delve deeply into subjects such as fraud management, margin assurance, and revenue optimization.

• To excel in RA implies a knowledge of the telecom business, services, networks, and B/OSS systems.   And here we’ll  “round out” your understanding by bringing you the latest trends in product development, real-time billing / charging, analytics, network policy / control, and enterprise billing.

• We’ll also feature a directory of global resources for the RA profession: educational resources, white papers, magazines, conferences, and on-line media.

• As we add content to the site each week, we’ll see that the  knowledge is organized for easy retrieval.  To this end, we’ll use the GRAPA Standards as our guide to categorization.

• Sign up for our monthly email newsletter and we’ll point you to the latest intelligence that appears on this site.

The Roundtable is a work in progress: we will rely on contributions from RA experts like you to expand our knowledgebase.    In fact, if you’re an RA practitioner with something valuable to share, I encourage you to contact me directly.

We also seek corporate sponsors to bring you this rigorously edited - and advertising free -- body of knowledge.   All sponsors pay the same low fee -- $1,990 a year - to receive our upcoming “State of the Revenue Assurance & Billing Practice and Market” research report plus other benefits.

Finally, we look to serving your community with information that will further your personal career and allow your organization to thrive in the exciting years ahead.

Sincerely,

Dan Baker
Research Director