CMP Database

The CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. database holds a complete representation of the customer 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. including all personal/business details, proposition, billing, payments and credit control data. The CMP database provides a central view of all CMP data, without the need to maintain/synchronise data across multiple databases.

The CMP database also holds the configuration used by CMP including all propositions, business process rules and reference data.

CMP does not have a strong dependency on the proprietary features of any particular relational database management system (RDBMS). The product is currently certified and tested using PostgreSQL. If required, PostgreSQL can be installed using an encrypted data partition and configured to only accept SSL encrypted network In the context of CMP, the infrastructure on which usage of registered customers will be measured – this could be a mobile phone network, broadband network or other non-telecommunications network. connections (automation can make this easier). PostgreSQL can support a number of failover, replication and load balancing configurations to provide scalability and high availability.

The PostgreSQL database must be monitored and managed in day-to-day operations using standard tools.