Cartesian releases Usage Monitor Version 4.0

Cartesian is pleased to announce the general availability of Usage Monitor Version 4.0, the usage assurance module in Cartesian’s flexible Ascertain revenue assurance product.

UM 4.0 includes a range of enhancements which reflect the evolution of best practice as well as the feedback we have received from our customers. It provides significant new functionality in areas such as:

  • very high performance, user-configurable event parsing, load and aggregation functionality provided by the ‘Event Processing Sub-system’ (EPS)
  • greatly enhanced user defined reporting capabilities including the business intelligence reporting tool and OLAP analysis functionality
  • graphical visualisation of end to end systems and processes
  • intelligent management of leakage issues identified

UM 4.0 is supported on all standard Ascertain hardware / system software platforms and will be fully available in Quarter 4, 2006. As is standard practice with Ascertain modules, the two previous major versions of the software will continue to be supported.

Alan Strong, Cartesian’s Chairman said, “Usage Assurance is one of the key revenue assurance controls required by today’s operators. We believe that UM 4.0 sets the industry benchmark for such applications. Cartesian is passionate about driving the development of best practice in Revenue Assurance - and with this major upgrade we are broadening and deepening the capabilities in the Usage Assurance domain. At the same time, we are making it easier for Revenue Assurance practitioners to identify the real issues so that they can spend their time working to improve the business rather than analysing the data.

Cartesian will be demonstrating UM 4.0 at the Billing and Revenue Assurance Strategies Conference in Dubai on the 20th – 22nd November (www.iir-conferences.com/megnabill).


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 Cable & Wireless (UK), Cablecom (Switzerland), The Carphone Warehouse (UK), ntl:Telewest (UK), Ono (Spain), ‘3’ (UK), TDC Mobil (Denmark), T-Mobile, UnityMedia (Germany), Verizon Business (UK), Vodafone (Ireland).


For further information, please phone Cartesian on +44 (0)20 7643 5555 or email enquiries@cartesian.co.uk