Amdocs Matrixx Charging

In Telefonica Germany, we have at the moment two charging systems, one for prepaid, one for postpaid, and we did not had any charging system for 5GSA. And this was the reason why we started an RFQ to have one unique platform which supports 5GSA prepaid and postpaid in one platform. One reason is to go to public cloud. For us it was very important to have a really cloud native charging solution. It should be also very flexible. So the flexibility of the Matrixx platform is extremely good. It was also selected by my team, Vista Experts, that it helps Telefonica to go forward with this one charging system. Everyone knows charging system is the platform in the middle. It's fifty percent in networks, fifty percent in IT, so we have to take care about all the interfaces. Because we are much faster in a public cloud, the team has to really change how they interact with each other. This is extremely important to know because then you will be much more faster in the future. There have been a couple of lessons that we have learned because we I think we are one of the first operators that started in the public cloud in Europe. So the first lesson we learned is that encryption and security is very important, which basically meant we needed to introduce lots of new capabilities on the charging platform and on the cloud systems. And at the beginning it was very challenging, but we overcame all these issues. I would think that's two areas that we're investing in. The first one is AI. And especially on the trialing platform, we're looking basically for error processing capabilities, yeah, that basically allows us to detect anomalies earlier or errors earlier. And the other one, I think, is evolving on the charging aspects of 5G SA because there are lots of new capabilities that can attract a business customer, for example. So for us and for me, it's very important to have a very short time to market. This means we want to deliver very fast products, new functionalities. This is possible with Matrix. As example, in the past, we need one week per site to upgrade for a charging system. Now with Matrix and with the CSCT pipeline and the new way of working, we need one night. Amazing.