Customer Story
Advantage 360 provides a highly internationalized suite of convergent billing, CRM, POS, terms management and operational support software for telecommunications carriers, internet service providers and nowadays even utility companies around the world.
As a telecommunications service provider, your system requirements are completely different from a manufacturer, drugstore or similar. The founders of Advantage 360 came to the same conclusion in 1984 and set up a new company. Since then, the organization has developed and continually evolved forward-thinking carrier-grade billing, POS, CRM and operational support software that is designed to connect their customers with their subscribers and to provide an exceptional experience at every level.
Advantage 360 serves different-sized telecom providers, like AT&T Wireless, Digicel Bermuda, Islandcom Wireless, Choice Communications, Atlantic Tele-Network, SOTELMA, Strata Networks, Cellular One Bermuda and many more.
Advantage 360 telco solutions were tightly integrated with legacy template management, document generation and delivery solutions. The company intended to replace these applications and allow their customers to manage all documents and forms from one platform in a modern, speedy, flexible and more reliable way.
They were looking for a replacement that would combine document composition & distributed output management capability, which would be able to capture data output from all of their billing, POS, CRM and operational support business applications. The ideal solution should also be able to enrich document presentation with graphics, color, various fonts, barcodes or marketing messages, without having to make any modification to these existing applications.
After initiating a market research, reviewing all market opportunities and comparing them with each other, Advantage 360 decided to replace their legacy output system with DocOrigin. The solution allowed to make the document creation process within their applications more flexible and automated. The new layout design capabilities enabled the client to create more customer-friendly business documents with dynamic service usage charts and personalized targeted ads.
“Advanced features will help subscribers better understand their current bill as well as what’s going on historically with their account, and that is going to cut down on customer support,” says Richard Card, CEO of Advantage 360. “More importantly, our customers are stepping up efforts to cross-sell and promote, but relying on the human factor is a huge mistake. With DocOrigin we provide them with a system that is accurate, intuitive and automated, and that translates to success in the marketplace.”
DocOrigin was integrated into all products of Advantage 360 to improve business processes, by making them more efficient with speed, accuracy, agility and reliability.
Most telecom companies can not afford breakdowns in their document creation and delivery processes, and for some it might mean putting millions of dollars at risk—such as when statements are not sent out on time due to production errors. DocOrigin allowed Advantage 360 customers to easily migrate all of their document templates automatically, and send out critical business documents through a variety of supported delivery channels, securing a smooth production, even at peak times.
Many organizations employ five, ten or even more communication systems, each handling only a specific document, channel or product, creating a disjointed customer experience. With DocOrigin, Advantage 360 customers can develop personalized and dynamic documents in batch and on-demand mode with the most sophisticated composition requirements, from one user friendly design interface, no matter what the delivery channel is. The solution offers convenient drag and drop tools, graphic objects, row/column objects, charts, barcodes and many more objects for designing the bill, which can be efficiently handled by any of the authorized business users.
DocOrigin takes inputs from all Advantage 360 enterprise applications to generate documents, forms and labels in different formats. Further, the created documents are sent through print, fax, sms, customer portal, email or different channels based on customer preference. Group printing of business documents, like bills can also be done based on preferences and business rules.
If, for example, the subscribers find inconsistencies in their monthly bill, the telecom company can erase the saved bill data and generate an original bill. This functionality can be used by customer support representatives, telecom outlets and other customer facing business users.
The combination of Advantage 360 and DocOrigin combines robust data and customer analytics with automated, dynamic, multichannel delivery. By incorporating customer intelligence with data streams, composition engines, print stream engineering, content designers, digital archiving, content management marketing and other business systems, customer support teams of telecom companies are now able to create more engaging customer experiences, by enjoying much more flexibility and access.
By integrating DocOrigin as the single document management engine, Advantage 360 was able to open new opportunities for their customers. Advantage 360 now offers their customers the opportunity to build relationships with their subscribers at every touchpoint by consistently reaching each of them with the right message at the right time, winning their attention, hearts and minds.
Every customer interaction is a new opportunity. Integrating DocOrigin with Advantage 360 telecom solutions allowed companies to speak to their subscribers as individuals in a single voice when and how they want it. Thanks to timely customer insights bills and statements are now more engaging and improve response, cross-sell and the overall customer experience.
Advantage 360 customers can now use transaction, demographic, service usage history, location and behavioral data to make service suggestions and present targeted offers. They can move away from a campaign-focused mode and reach a wider audience with more relevant and dynamic messaging at lower costs.
Also, after implementing DocOrigin, Advantage 360 customers started to create customer-friendly bills, and explain service usage history of complicated tariffs, like the telecom family tariff, by using smart and dynamic charts. This way, the telecom provider can ensure that every touchpoint with their customers is better measured, monitored and managed.
Advantage 360 telecom customers are now able to speak to subscribers in their preferred communication channel, making it inviting to choose digital. Flexible communication technologies deliver content in both print and digital formats from the same data stream, automatically reformatting content for many supported delivery channels, like web, portal, messenger, email mobile or other. By enabling customers to view and manage their account information in real time, telecom companies are able to increase satisfaction and reduce process costs.
Not only are Advantage 360 customers now able to produce multiple communications from one document source, but all of their communications are consistent, up-to-date, compliant, and relevant to their end customer’s needs. Also, the new combination allows strategic planning and engagement of customers at every stage of their journey automatically.
DocOrigin supports complex multi-language and multi-currency requirements. One and the same template can create documents in different languages based on system configurations. This allows telecom companies to meet domestic requirements for providing communications in a customer’s preferred language or dialect, and to easily adapt customer communications management applications as the business grows and moves into new global territories with new language and regulatory requirements.
"It is important that carriers and providers have a billing system that is accurate, dependable and integrated with their entire business process. After researching and evaluating many similar products we found the right mix of features, price and support with DocOrigin."
- Richard Card, CEO, Advantage 360