Documentation Set

The CMPClosed Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. documentation set is a hierarchy – the granularityClosed The scale or level of detail in a set of data. of technical detail increases with each level; and each level assumes knowledge of the relevant documentation in the level above.

For example:

  1. The CMP Overview provides a high-level description of CMP features and modules.
  2. The CMP Operations Overview assumes knowledge of the CMP Overview and provides guidance on CMP operations and processes, operation scheduling and management, and the functionality of the CMP Administration ConsoleClosed An operations web console that allows batch jobs to be scheduled, run manually and monitored. The console also provides for viewing and modification of business and user applicable system configuration..
  3. The next-level documentation, for example Batch Jobs and JSONClosed JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is a lightweight format for storing and transporting data, often used when data is sent from a server to a web page. Schemas guide, assumes knowledge of both the CMP Overview and CMP Operational Overview, and describes the functionality of the batch jobs that make up CMP processes and provides the relevant JSON schemas. The Administration Console Online Help is aimed at console users, and provides step-by-step instructions on, for example, how to create schedules or edit CMP module properties.

Within the hierarchy, CMP documentation is also organised into categories:

Functional documentation describes the different functional areas of the CMP system and how they address the business processes that a typical telecommunications service providerClosed The owner of the infrastructure in which accounts will be created. The Service Provider can host and operate the instance of CMP, or CMP can be provided as a Managed Service. should support, including the different options available and the key limitations.

For more information see Functional Documentation.

Technical guides cover the hardware and software aspects of a CMP implementation, such as system requirements, technical architecture, recovery, availability and installation. These guides are aimed at IT staff and MDS Global staff responsible for deploying and maintaining CMP.

For more information see Technical Documentation.

Integration documentation is aimed at customerClosed In the context of the Cloud Monetisation Platform, an individual or organisation who has signed an agreement to take goods and services from a service provider. A customer receives a bill associated with one or more subscriptions, and can be a single end user or a large company with many subscriptions assigned to one agreement. teams or third parties who need to build integration into CMP. It explains the different integration methods supported by the product, the principle technical concepts of each, and provides example use cases to support the integration process.

This is provided by the following:

For more information see Integration Documentation.

Operational guides are aimed at IT staff such as system administrators and MDS Global Business Operations staff who are concerned with the day-to-day operations and processes in CMP and the monitoring and security of the same. This covers security, batch processes and purging.

For more information see Operational Documentation.

In addition to these categories are the documents:

The CMP Overview is the starting point for anyone who wants to learn about CMP. It assumes no prior knowledge of CMP and provides a high-level overview of the end-to-end capabilities of the Converged Monetisation Platform and the functional modules, including key concepts, billing, provisioningClosed In telecommunications, the setup of equipment, wiring and transmission to deliver services to a customer., ratingClosed In telecommunications, determining the cost of a particular call. Involving converting call-related data into an equivalent monetary value., and customer management. The information is descriptive only; the document does not provide implementation instructions.

This documentation is available in PDF and HTML format.

The Release Notes describe all the new and changed functionality since the last product release and are specific to a given CMP release. Release Notes list which versions of the CMP modules form the basis of the release and describe any optional modules and adaptors. Fixed issues within the release are also included, as are updates to the documentation.

This documentation is available in HTML format only.

This document describes the structure of the CMP documentation set and outlines the contents of each document.