On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 08:31 PM, A E [Gmail] wrote: > > Sure, like I said, not expecting to be spoon-fed, just trying to >> reduce the dev. time by taking existing code / scripts etc from >> anyone who's willing to share and tweak them to make it work for >> the carriers we end up getting our rates from, as well as then >> converting them into some format/template that we choose to feed >> into our rating/routing engine. Incidentally, we're planning to buy >> only from the larger/major suppliers and are hoping that someone >> would've the templates/scripts to normalize those suppliers' rate >> decks and that they'd be willing to share them :) >> > > At the risk of impetuousness, I think this is a somewhat misguided > endeavour, simply because the code/templates/scripts you're asking for are > inextricably found up in the specificity of a given ITSP environment, vendor > blend, billing engine, etc. > > Agreed, but there have to be people who've written a standalone tool that uses templates of carriers they buy from on a regular basis handling complete A-Z as well as rate updates and then normalize it to then save it to a CSV/Excel or some other format which can then be imported into either a BI system, handed over to BI SaaS provider, as well as consumed locally in their own rating/routing engine. In fact, I know of a company that have built one that is quite generic and is a standalone tool and is NOT tied to their switch/routing/rating engine but just spits out a CSV file which can then be consumed any number of ways. Unfortunately, I can't get it from them. Also, there are commercial tools available which are relatively generic and handle rate import/export, so clearly it IS possible to build these tools that are general enough without being that specific. And finally, just like Asterisk is a FOSS general/customisable PBX/Switch alternative to a fully-functional commercial PBX/Switch, was hoping there's one for rate imports as well put out by a generous developer in the community :)
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