http://talkra.com News and views from the world of revenue assurance Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 If you want to stay up to date with what is happening in revenue assurance, you came to the right place. talkRA is the podcast and website for people interested in revenue assurance news and views. We cover revenue assurance, revenue management, data integrity and fraud management for telecommunications network operators, electronic communications service providers, and other industries as well. Our contributors are experts in their respective fields, and come from all around the world. They are genuine and experienced practitioners, selected as amongst the best and more interesting exponents of revenue assurance. Everybody in the talkRA team has extensive hands-on experience from working in the industry. Between them, they cover the full range of roles - everything from RA Directors in telcos and freelance business consultants to entrepreneurs and software developers. Founded by RA veterans Eric Priezkalns and Matt Clark, talkRA quickly established itself as the most popular website for people wanting to find out what is happening in revenue assurance and related fields. Since 2006, Eric has written hundreds of entertaining and informative blogs about RA. In 2008, the formation of talkRA saw Eric joined by a first-class team of collaborators, all wanting to take their discussions beyond the remits of traditional conferences and members-only clubs. The talkRA podcast contains exclusive material including interviews with key personalities and topical debates with panels involving participants from around the globe. Eric Priezkalns, well-known RA consultant and commentator, is the host. The mission of talkRA is simple. talkRA is dedicated to promoting the development of the practice of revenue assurance, fraud management, revenue management and business intelligence in telecommunications service providers and other industries. It provides a platform for thought leaders, allowing them to communicate and exchange ideas without imposing any limitations based on employment or affiliations. Members of the talkRA team are invited to join based on their personal track record in pushing the boundaries of knowledge and freely sharing their insights with peers. We will regularly review the mix of opinions held by talkRA members, and where necessary will seek to recruit in order to represent a fair balance of opinions held by the wider community of practitioners. The podcast is an extension of the content provided at talkRA.com. All opinions represented are those of the individuals who contribute them, as talkRA has no official opinion. talkRA provides a common ground for debate and may be used by team members to promote unconventional or unorthodox points of view. In lieu of academic rigour, it is hoped that this free expression of opinions will help industry bodies like the TM Forum (also known as the TMF and formerly known as the Telemanagement Forum), the various groups dedicated to interworking, regulation and fraud prevention like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO), and training companies like the Billing College and the RA Academy/Global Revenue Assurance Professionals' Association (GRAPA) to consider all perspectives before reaching decisions that will affect RA practitioners. At present, talkRA's website and podcast is owned and paid for by Revenue Protect Limited, the consulting business of Eric Priezkalns. In future we would like to make the site self-financing. Until that becomes practical, we will make our best efforts to support good governance by being transparent. Information about the ownership and finances of talkRA is presented at http://talkra.com/who-is-behind-talkra-and-who-pays-for-it and a full list of members of the talkRA team is available at the home page of http://talkra.com. Eric Priezkalns and the talkRA team clean Eric Priezkalns and the talkRA team eric.priezkalns@revenueprotect.com talkRA The podcast for revenue assurance news and views talkrevenueassurance, takRA, torkra, revenueprotect, talk-ra, tallra, talra, tolkra, tolra, talkara, talcra, talckra eric.priezkalns@revenueprotect.com (Eric Priezkalns and the talkRA team) http://talkra.com/images/talkra/talkRAlogo144sq.png http://talkra.com http://talkra.com/archives/1392 http://talkra.com/archives/1392#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:26:08 +0000 Mike Willett http://talkra.com/?p=1392 http://talkra.com/archives/1392/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1244 http://talkra.com/archives/1244#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:08 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1244 http://talkra.com/archives/1244/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1387 http://talkra.com/archives/1387#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:54:11 +0000 Güera Romo http://talkra.com/?p=1387 http://talkra.com/archives/1387/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1338 http://talkra.com/archives/1338#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:30:07 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1338 http://talkra.com/archives/1338/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1298 http://talkra.com/archives/1298#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:33 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1298 http://talkra.com/archives/1298/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1211 http://talkra.com/archives/1211#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1211 http://talkra.com/archives/1211/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1378 http://talkra.com/archives/1378#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:25:22 +0000 Güera Romo http://talkra.com/?p=1378 http://talkra.com/archives/1378/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1288 http://talkra.com/archives/1288#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:22:54 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1288 http://talkra.com/archives/1288/feed Podcast 11 is dedicated to the topic of managed services - services which might have been performed in-house but are instead delivered by an external supplier. It is a topic that gets considered from time to time by telcos wanting to improve their ... Podcast 11 is dedicated to the topic of managed services - services which might have been performed in-house but are instead delivered by an external supplier. It is a topic that gets considered from time to time by telcos wanting to improve their revenue assurance and fraud management, although it is not so common to see initial conversations progress to completing an actual deal. Indian firm Subex is a market leader in supplying revenue assurance and fraud management software, and also earns a significant chunk of its revenues through managed services for those functions and others. I asked them to talk with me about the current status and future potential for managed services. Vinod Kumar, Subex's Group President, joined me from India, and Des Rehinsi, their Director of Sales for Managed Services, joined me from the UK. We talked about the reasons why telcos opt for managed services, the factors that drive competitive advantage in this market, and their expectations for future sales from managed services. You can listen to the full podcast at talkRA.com, or by subscribing through the iTunes store. Eric Priezkalns and the talkRA team clean 50:01 http://talkra.com/archives/1286 http://talkra.com/archives/1286#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:00:46 +0000 Ashwin Menon http://talkra.com/?p=1286 http://talkra.com/archives/1286/feed http://talkra.com/archives/1279 http://talkra.com/archives/1279#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:12:11 +0000 Eric http://talkra.com/?p=1279 http://talkra.com/archives/1279/feed