Cartesian announces general availability of Ascertain RDA 4.0

RDA 4.0 is the latest version of the Reference Data Audit module of Cartesian’s Ascertain suite of revenue assurance products.

This new version enhances the ease of use of RDA for the different user communities (such as revenue assurance specialists and system administrators), improves the seamless data exchange with other modules of the Ascertain solution and provides some new and useful functions that make Reference Data Audit even more effective.

In particular, among other functions, the new version provides

  • Integration with the Ascertain Issue Management Module (IMM), including the ability to raise issues direct from the report screens or from the report jobs for problems such as breaching an exception threshold
  • Improved User Defined Reporting interface as well as improved ability to pass user-specified variables into Report Jobs
  • Improved report layout options from administration screens
  • Greatly enhanced User Interface (UI) including improved report viewing
  • New User and Group administration area providing greater flexibility and control in user administration
  • New self-care section enabling users to maintain their own profiles
  • New Job Queue management options
  • New Multijob management feature allowing the system administrator to flexibly create and manage multijob dependencies

RDA Version 4.0 is supported on all standard Ascertain hardware / system software platforms and is immediately available. Previous versions of the software will be supported for a minimum one-year period and thereafter as required by the user community.


About Cartesian

Cartesian is an independent technical consulting and software development company, delivering products and services to the telecoms industry. Cartesian's expertise covers networks, engineering, and technology, through to revenue assurance and billing.


About Ascertain

Ascertain is Cartesian’s widely-deployed suite of software tools which address the revenue assurance and data integrity needs of telecoms operators. With these tools, we can prove rating accuracy, reconcile customer data, analyse and reconcile event records, prove completeness of processing, and monitor trends and volumes. All this can be done in an automated manner to provide reassurance all day, every day.

Cartesian’s customer base includes, among others, Bulldog (UK), Cable & Wireless (UK), Cablecom (Switzerland), The Carphone Warehouse (UK), ish (Germany), Verizon Business (UK), ntl (UK), ‘3’ (UK), TDC Mobil (Denmark), Telewest Broadband (UK), T-Mobile (UK), Ono (Spain), Vodafone (Ireland).


For further information phone Cartesian on +44 (0)20 7643 5554 or email enquiries@cartesian.co.uk