After a WiFi network billing system really runs, what does the manager look at every day when he opens up the backstage first thing?"Look at the number of people online."But the number of people online is only a start. If the operator looks at the number of people online, then the system will be used for surveillance purposes."Operations"V7 Authentication & Billing has a set of statistical modules for data from Portal pages, to top-to-down records, traffic use, network-based equipment status, and financial billing and business statements. These are already in the system, and the question is who should look at which one and what it is for.
It would be much clearer to open the statements as users.The boss's concern is with income and trends.The data correspond to the system’s financial statements module: billing, refunding records, renewal statistics, distribution of basket sales. The owner does not need to know which user is owed fees; he depends on whether the monthly daily report will be able to account for the bank and the region where ARPU value is lost.
The carrier is concerned with network health and anomalies.: The number of online users, the certification success rate, which APs are offline, which time periods are certified and issued with maximum frequency, whether there is an unusual flow running through the exit at midnight. The V7 Operations Management Module contains a real-time list of online users, historical downlink records, and data on network metadata."Just one look."Instead, it is to connect with the alarm: for example, a number of APs suddenly dropped from 80 to 5, possibly an AP dead; for example, an account running 20G traffic at 3 a.m., probably private or scratched. The carrier opens the report every morning not to fill in the form, but to see what's wrong with the numbers.
The financial concern is whether the accounts are right or not.: The actual arrival of the micro-mail payment treasure in the accounts and the charges in the system was not equal, the refunds were not eliminated, the agent charged the amount of cash charges. The business statements and charges records in this corresponding system are detailed. Many WiFi operators cannot do it, not technically, or account reconciliation: the cash system is unrecorded at the front desk, the credit refund is not known, the agent says he has only 3,000 items in the 5000 system.——The system charges are recorded and reconciled daily, minor problems being dealt with on that day and not turned into a mess at the end of the month.
There's another one for people who do products and operations called conversion data.Portal is an ad space in itself, and V7 can count the number of shows, hits, and the conversion rate for package purchases. For example, you push one on Portal"9.9 for 3 days"The system tells you that there are 300 people who have been pushed 5,000 times this month, 800 times and actually paid for it, with a 6% conversion rate. This figure determines whether you want to continue pushing the package next month, moving around or changing prices. Without these data, Portal operates by taking a head shot: pushing an activity, feeling like a lot of people, but not knowing how much income you're getting.
The most vulnerable part of the reporting system is thatDistribution of traffic consumption and user behaviour. The top 10% of users tend to account for more than 30% of the total traffic, all of which are in line with the traffic that was used this month. There may be real users with heavy usage or someone sharing accounts. The flow rows are not intended to capture anyone, they're designed to determine whether export bandwidth should be extended and the set-aside slots adjusted. If you run hundreds of Gs every month in the first few lines, it means that your current monthly package can be priced low and its bandwidth unmanageable; if most people use a few Gs only a month, then the menu is too thick to be built up, so an open-door cut out a lower one.
There is also a premise for the statement to be useful:Time dimension to be fixed.The daily reports look at the current day charges, online peaks, alarms; weekly reports see distribution of the week's packages, renewal rates, refund rates; monthly reports do financial reconciliations and trend analyses. Do not take a few numbers every time you want to see, which makes it easy to pull wrong caliber or not to compare. V7 supports time-series queries and statistics, but how the statements are divided and who sees what points in each day is the rule for the operator.
This is a power border.V7 self-contained statements are business statements for operations and finance, not BI analysis platforms. It allows you to structure statistics on income, traffic, online users, and package conversions, but it does not do self-help drilling at any scale, cannot perform complex linkage analyses and operating systems, nor replace professional data warehouses. If the operator already has its own BI or financial system, the data interface provided by V7 can push the original record over and make more complicated analysis there; but it does not expect a data team to be able to make visualization of what it can do in the backstage of the billing.
There is also a real problem: the reporting authority has to be divided. The owner looks at full financial statements, monitors web and online data, the front desk chargers can only see how much they charge, and the agent can see only the charged value and consumption of their own users. V7 supports multilevel administrator privileges and an independent proxy interface, with different players login on different forms of statement. This is not a function; it is a security and liability requirement: if you can see all user IDs and consumption records in any front office, that is a management accident.
It's a pity that many WiFi projects have been introduced to the system and become a pure fee-paying tool. The billing system produces data every day, which tells you what is the best channel for setting up an unsound package, which one should be in the best interest of users, and which one is missing."Fee-for-software"Changed"Operational platform"。