CC Getting Started Guide
CC Getting Started Guide
1 Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Deployment Scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.1 On-Premise Full BRIM End-to-End Deployment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.2 Hybrid Full BRIM End-to-End Deployment with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (Deprecated
Scenario). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
7 Downloads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
8 Getting Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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With SAP Convergent Charging, you bring competitive subscription and metered services to market with
flexible pricing management.
To stay competitive, you need to properly define and apply the right prices to products and services, and
be able to adapt quickly should market conditions change. Nowadays end customers want to subscribe to
the perfect offer and manage their expenses in real time. Furthermore, partners in your ecosystem need
comprehensive revenue-sharing systems. Transparency, agility, and flexibility are key.
SAP Convergent Charging helps you quickly define and change subscription services and related partner
revenue sharing models. It supports millions of subscribers and is able to meter, rate, and charge each
customer event in real time. By allowing non-IT personnel to quickly make pricing changes, service providers
can create competitive pricing offers to seize market opportunities. And that translates into increased
profitability, end-customer loyalty, and a strong competitive edge in a highly demanding marketplace.
• Design and change end-customer pricing and partner revenue-sharing models quickly.
• Give subscribers control over their spending.
• Calculate recurring- and usage-based fees and subscription charges in real time or batch.
• Operate with low latency, very high volume, and high availability.
Features
SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) includes the following main capabilities:
Remember
You bring competitive subscription and metered services to market with flexible pricing management.
Business Benefits
• Lower TCO with pricing consolidation and calculation of partner-revenue share, along with customer
pricing
• Increase business agility by consolidating multiple services and lines of business onto a single, high-volume
platform
SAP Convergent Charging helps you ensure a fast time to market for your new chargeable services or products.
• Rapidly design subscription-, recurring-, and usage-based pricing for your chargeable services or products
• Quickly launch new commercial offers with the necessary pricing configuration in SAP Convergent
Charging.
• Implement and run pricing configuration and logic based on reusable settings.
• Easily maintain the pricing configuration.
Remember
SAP Convergent Charging is designed to allow the monetization of any type of service from Data SMS, and
Voice to Wifi, Cloud, Saas, M2M, IoT, and OTT partnerships.
You implement and run revenue sharing models with the same ease as revenue generation models.
You manage your channel and partner types with a simple pricing configuration.
Tip
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SAP Convergent Charging can easily support IoT (Internet of Things) and other connected devices with
high-volume, automated, and transparent processing across usage-event and financial postings.
Remember
Adopt and monetize the IoT technology that is creating business opportunities in a wide range of
industries.
• Prepaid
• Postpaid
• Hybrid
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SAP Convergent Charging provides comprehensive fault and disaster recovery support, as well as high
availability for business continuity (rating and charging operations in real time).
SAP Convergent Charging is scalable by adding or removing instances to/from the SAP Convergent Charging
system. As soon as you get at least 2 instances of same type, then you can reach high availability (HA) if the
distribution of those instances are spread on different physical hosts.
SAP Convergent Charging provides different high-availability architectures and setups that you implement in
your SAP system landscape to achieve high availability depending on your SLO (service level objectives) and
high availability strategy.
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SAP Convergent Charging has open APIs and interfaces (refer to the Java/XML API Reference (Core Library)
documentation) that allow seamless integrations. It connects to any customer management or provisioning
systems (CRM, self-care), metered data systems (mediation, SCP, soft switches), financial systems (legacy
billing, invoicing, revenue recognition, ERPs, General Ledgers), data warehouse systems.
Remember
You plug SAP Convergent Charging into upstream and downstream systems using standard interfaces.
Innovate with agility and increase transparency across the entire revenue management process from customer
engagement to revenue recognition with agile, scalable and highly-automated billing, invoicing and revenue
management solutions.
Our on-premise, SAP BRIM solution gives you the power to work more profitably in a complex partner
ecosystem, reselling their products and services and sharing revenue accordingly. You’ll also be able to
accurately anticipate the effect of new pricing models and create targeted offers that combine both products
and services.
Billing and Revenue Innovation Management enables you to create profitable digital services with flexible
pricing and watertight revenue management. The SAP BRIM software is based on the following integrated SAP
components and products:
• SAP ERP (in SAP Business Suite 7i2016) or SAP S/4HANA On-Premise Editions (1511, 1610, 1709, 1809,
1909, 2020, 2021, or more recent)
• SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC)
• SAP Convergent Mediation by DigitalRoute
• Innovate your business models so that you can deliver a better end-customer experience.
• Monetize subscription- and usage-based services in real time.
• Share revenues with partners of your business network.
• Streamline your high-volume revenue management processes.
Key Benefits
Offer your end-customers outcomes Enable any variant or combination of Support the Internet of Things (IoT)
based on subscriptions and real-time prepaid and pay-as-you-go business and connected devices with highvo-
usage-based services, while supporting models with rules-based, intelligent au- lume, automated, and transparent
revenuesharing models across your ex- tomation of invoicing and accounting processing across usage-event and fi-
tended ecosystem. processes. nancial postings.
Subscription-based order manage- Collection, enrichment and manage- Agile charging supporting your busi-
ment: ment of usage events: ness models:
• Capture and monitor subscription • Capture, streamline, and consoli- • Design customer-centric, subscrip-
orders to ensure delivery and bill- date usage and event data for pric- tion, and usagebased pricing mod-
ing accuracy. ing and charging. els such as revenue sharing.
• Address contract changes, renew- • Support growing volumes of usage • Simplify the creation, manage-
als, extensions, and billing cycles data with unlimited scalability. ment, and execution of allowances
automatically. • Enable open graphical workflows and entitlements.
• Manage master agreements, in- with rapid configuration. • Allow seamless integration across
cluding invoicing hierarchies, spe- your current digital environment
cialized catalog. with flexible APIs.
Consolidate invoicing for all services: Flexible document management: Comprehensive customer financial
management:
• Improve customer satisfaction and • Create and personalize business
reduce costly questions with clear communications – in both digital • Manage revenue flow with intelli-
and accurate invoicing.. and hardcopy formats – with ease. gent, highly automated receivables
• Consolidate billing information • Customize messaging and formats and payments handling.
from various areas and partners for bank statements, bills, invoices, • Give your agents a full view of fi-
into a single, clear summary. and receipts. nancial customer data.
• Tailor services and pricing with • Provide document management • Provide better, more personalized
comprehensive invoice-level dis- self-services that do not require IT support for sophisticated credit
counting capabilities. intervention. and collections.
Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (Deprecated Integration) [page 11]
Caution
This integration is deprecated as of SAP CC 2021 FPS 0 and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2102. For
more information, refer to the administration guides of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
In an integrated SAP Solution scenario, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) can be interfaced and integrated
with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
Remember
Depending on the solution scenario that is implemented in your SAP system landscape, the SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Public Edition system is deployed and connected to the SAP CC system. For the first integration, you
need the version SAP CC 5.0 SP 5 or a higher release.
In an integrated scenario with an order management system, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC), Convergent
Invoicing (in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) , and Receivables Management and Payment Handling (aka
Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable):
• Convergent Invoicing (in S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition) enables service providers to consolidate charges
from one or more sources into a single invoice. The consolidated invoice may include charges from third
parties. Provider companies thus have a complete view of the end customer. They can see which party
is responsible for any given charge. Convergent Invoicing enables providers to simplify and automate
complex billing processes, making it easier to implement and monetize innovative services.
• Receivables Management and Payment Handling (aka Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable) receives
and manages large posting volumes, for example, created by billing processes, and uploads these postings
to the general ledger.
The software has been tailored towards the requirements of corporates across all industries and lines of
business with high volumes of end customers, subscriptions, and pay-per-use transactions. The processes
provided with Receivables Management and Payment Handling are highly flexible to allow for a maximum
of automation, as well as ensuring outstanding system performance and scalability.
The collection process fully automates routine tasks such as the calculation of interest payments.
• SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) creates billable items for services that are used and transfers
these items for further processing to Convergent Invoicing in the S/4HANA Cloud system. The basis
for the creation of billable items are sets of rules stored in SAP CC that specify pricing and account
assignment, in combination with end-customer data and product data that SAP CC replicates from the
order management system.
The billable items contain the price to be paid for the usage of a service, along with information on the
account to which receivables or payables are to be posted.
• Convergent Invoicing (in the S/4HANA Cloud system) receives billable items from SAP Convergent
Charging, creates invoices and credit memos from them, posts the receivables or payables in "Receivables
Management and Payment Handling" (aka Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable), and manages
these receivables and payables until they are cleared.
Billable items contain information on the business partner and the account – contract account in postpaid
scenarios or allowance in prepaid scenarios – to which "Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable" posts
the receivables or payables, and with which you can track the prepaid usages of your end customers.
To enable this transactional flow (business accounting operations), some master data for the end customers
must be configured and distributed in the systems.
• Business partner
The order management system is the leading system with regard to master data. But Contract Accounts
Receivable and Payable (in the S/4HANA Cloud system) replicates the master data to the SAP CC system:
Tip
• Subscriber Account
• External Account
• Provider Contract, which is a pricing and charging view
Availability
Caution
The integration is deprecated as of SAP CC 2021 FPS 0 and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2102.
You need the version SAP CC 5.0 SP 5 or a higher release. See also: Deprecated. Integrating SAP CC with SAP
S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Complementary Information
Related Information
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM) based on SAP S/4HANA.
In an integrated scenario, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) can be interfaced and integrated with SAP
S/4HANA.
Remember
Depending on the solution scenario that is implemented in your SAP system landscape, the SAP S/4HANA
system is deployed and connected to the SAP CC system.
Complementary Information
Related Information
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM) based on SAP Business Suite (with SAP ERP and SAP CRM).
Refer to Integration with SAP ERP [page 15] and Integration with SAP CRM [page 15].
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM) based on SAP Business Suite (with SAP ERP and SAP CRM).
In an integrated scenario, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) can be interfaced and integrated with SAP ERP.
Note
Depending on the solution scenario that is implemented in your SAP system landscape, the SAP ERP
system may be deployed and connected to the SAP CC system.
Complementary Information
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM) based on SAP S/4HANA or SAP Business Suite.
Integration Guide for SAP S/4HANA BRIM Using SAP CRM Integration Guide for Offer-to-Cash Based on BRIM Using
SAP ERP
This document relates to the first solution scenario based on
SAP S/4HANA on-premise editions. This document relates to integration scenarios based on
SAP ERP and SAP CRM in SAP Business Suite.
SAP CRM 7.0 EHP4 contains:
SAP CRM 7.0 EHP4 SP02 contains:
• SAP Subscription Order Management (SAP SOM)
• Part of SAP Customer Financial Management • Sales and Order Management (SOM)
• Financial Customer Care based on Contract Accounts
Receivable and Payable (FI-CA)
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In an integrated scenario, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) can be interfaced and integrated with SAP CRM.
Note
Depending on the solution scenario that is implemented in your SAP system landscape, the SAP CRM
system may be deployed and connected to the SAP CC system.
If it is present, the SAP CRM system is the leading system with regard to master data.
Our integration guides are a central starting point for the integration of the components that compose SAP
Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM), such as SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC), SAP S/
4HANA, or SAP ERP.
Remember
The guides are restricted to SAP customers and SAP partners. Please log on to SAP Help Portal to view
these SAP documents.
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM).
Depending on your business/technical requirements, you can implement different scenarios and scenario
variants.
On SAP Help Portal, log on first, and then consult the integration guide that suits your functional needs:
Integration Guide for Integration Guide for Integration Guide for SAP Integration Guide for Offer-
SAP S/4HANA BRIM SAP S/4HANA BRIM S/4HANA BRIM Using SAP to-Cash Based on BRIM
Using Subscription Order Using Subscription Order CRM Using SAP ERP
Management in SAP S/4HANA Management in SAP S/
This document relates to This document relates to
(2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, or 4HANA for CM
the first solution scenario integration scenarios based
1909)
This document relates based on SAP S/4HANA on- on SAP ERP and SAP CRM
This document relates to to the 2019 innovation premise editions. in SAP Business Suite.
the latest 2023, 2022, 2021, based on Subscription
2020, and 2019 innovations Order Management in SAP
based on Subscription Order S/4HANA for Customer
Management as integrated part Management 2.0.
of SAP S/4HANA Finance (as of
version 1909).
View the relevant guide for more information about the corresponding:
Verify the compatibility between the component versions that are integrated together. Refer to the
Prerequisites sections in the integration guides. Some release combinations are not possible.
Remember
Always refer to the Integration Guide documents for more information about the capabilities and features,
the data flows (transactional data, master data, other data or events), and system interactions. Multiple
diagrams explain the data and systems integrations.
If you are not logged on to SAP Help Portal, you cannot open the links to the integration guides.
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 is part of integrated SAP Solutions named SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation
Management (BRIM) based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAP S/4HANA, or SAP Business Suite.
Integration Guide for Integration Guide for Integration Guide for Integration Guide for
SAP S/4HANA BRIM SAP S/4HANA BRIM SAP S/4HANA BRIM Offer-to-Cash Based
Using Subscription Using Subscription Using SAP CRM on BRIM Using SAP
Order Management in Order Management in ERP
SAP S/4HANA (2023, SAP S/4HANA for
2022, 2021, 2020, or CM
1909)
In an integrated SAP Solution scenario, SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) can be interfaced and integrated
with SAP Convergent Invoicing in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition system, the SAP S/4HANA system, or
the SAP ERP system.
Remember
Depending on the scenario that is implemented in your SAP system landscape, the SAP CC system is
deployed and connected to one of these systems (SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SAP S/4HANA, or
SAP ERP) for working with SAP Convergent Invoicing.
Subscription Order Management enables SAP Customers to offer their business solutions as a combination of
products and subscriptions to services (recurring fees, usage-based charges, and one-off charges, based on
consumption pricing model).
N/A Integration Guide for Integration Guide for Integration Guide for N/A
SAP S/4HANA BRIM SAP S/4HANA BRIM SAP S/4HANA BRIM
Using Subscription Using Subscription Using SAP CRM Tip
Order Management in Order Management in
See the introduc-
SAP S/4HANA (2023, SAP S/4HANA for
tion topic Integra-
2022, 2021, 2020, or CM
tion with Sales
1909)
and Order Man-
agement (SOM)
[page 19].
Note
Sales and Order Management (in SAP CRM 7.0 EHP4) is replaced by Subscription Order Management
[page 18] in the integrated SAP Solution scenarios that are based on SAP S/4HANA.
Hybrid Full BRIM End-to-End Deployment with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (Deprecated Scenario)
[page 20]
This BRIM end-to-end deployment is based on SAP Convergent Invoicing and SAP Convergent Charging.
Related Information
Integrating SAP CC with SAP Convergent Invoicing in SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP
Caution
This deployment scenario is deprecated as of SAP CC 2021 FPS 0 and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
2102. For more information, refer to the administration guides of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
This hybrid full BRIM end-to-end deployment is based on Convergent Invoicing (in S/4HANA Cloud Public
Edition) and the on-premise deployment of SAP Convergent Charging.
With this hybrid deployment, SAP Convergent Charging is interfaced with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
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Decision makers are project participants who evaluate an SAP software product (or an SAP Solution) and
decide on the purchase and the implementation project GO/NO GO. They are persons responsible for making
this buying decision.
During the evaluation phase, they consult our SAP product documentation and user assistance:
Implementers are IT consultants and developers [page 28] that are members of the implementation team
that is responsible for the implementation project of the SAP Convergent Charging software product.
In a development SAP system landscape, implementers may have the "administrator" SAP CC role in order to
install, configure, and operate with the SAP CC systems.
Before the go-live phase, the project team hands over the production systems to the (IT) Operation Team [page
26] and the technical support to the relevant support specialists [page 29].
Note
Implementers can provide some functional guidance when technical support is not possible.
During the (project) implementation phase, they consult our SAP product documentation and user assistance:
Mid of the implementation phase, they operate with QA and pre-production SAP system landscapes.
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An SAP CC pricing specialist is a typical individual user of SAP Convergent Charging who is responsible
for designing and configuring the pricing settings for the chargeable services or products to monetize by
implementing subscription- and usage-based pricing models.
• Analyze how to design some pricing logic with SAP Convergent Charging, given that there are typically
several ways for implementing a given requirement, based on price plans and price tables.
• Model and design the pricing configuration for the chargeable services or products of your company.
Goal In SAP Convergent Charging With Cockpit With Former Data Model
Analysis With SAP CC 2023, the pricing As of release 2020, the pric- With the former and legacy Data
specialists have a flexible solu- Model, the pricing specialists
ing specialists benefit from a
tion to analyze how to design analyze how to model and de-
simplified and renewed vision
some pricing logic for the charge- sign the implementation based
able services or products and and concepts introduced in SAP on charges combined in offers
how to model the necessary pric- Convergent Charging Cockpit to to subscribe to. Tier tables
ing settings and data in SAP analyze how to model and design and translation tables are mul-
Convergent Charging. They com- the implementation depending on ticolumn data tables that ena-
pare the various business/techni- ble implementing and running
the business requirements.
cal requirements with all capabili- tier-based pricing or multidimen-
ties/features of SAP CC. sional pricing.
Rate plans specify how to charge
end customers for the use of a
service or product.
Modeling and Several implementations are pos- Based on rate plans and map- Based on charges, offers and
Design sible and the pricing specialists
ping/range tables in pricing cata- tier/translation tables in pricing
determine and optimize the best
logs, on provider contracts and catalogs, subscriptions and sub-
modeling and design by taken
into account the business re- subscriber accounts for end cus- scriber accounts for end custom-
quirements (pricing policy) from tomers and subscribers, the pric- ers and subscribers, the pricing
the marketing team and features ing specialists model the imple- specialists model the implemen-
of SAP Convergent Charging. mentation and translate the pric- tation and translate the pricing
ing policy from the marketing policy from the marketing team
team to pricing configurations to pricing configurations in SAP
in SAP Convergent Charging for Convergent Charging for their
their chargeable services or prod- chargeable services or products.
ucts.
Pricing Configu- With Core Tool, the pricing spe- With Cockpit, the pricing special- With Core Tool, the pricing spe-
ration cialists configure, test, and re- ists configure, test, and release cialists configure, test, and re-
lease easy-to-maintain charge easy-to-maintain rate plans and lease easy-to-maintain reusable
plans, allowance plans, and mapping/range tables with SAP charges, offers, and tier/transla-
mapping/range tables with SAP Convergent Charging to meet tion tables with SAP Convergent
Convergent Charging to meet new business needs. Charging to meet new business
new business needs. needs.
Maintenance The pricing specialists maintain The pricing specialists maintain The pricing specialists maintain
and Evolutions existing charge plans and map- existing rate plans and tables to existing charges, offers, and tier/
ping/range tables to configure configure the marketing and pric- translation tables to configure the
the marketing and pricing policy ing policy evolutions or in case marketing and pricing policy evo-
evolutions or in case of pricing of pricing issues in rate plans or lutions or in case of pricing issues
issues in charge plans or map- tables. They retire obsolete rate in charges or tables.
ping/range tables. They retire ob- plans.
solete charge plans.
• Analyze, translate, model, and design the pricing policy for your chargeable services or products
• Prototype and demo price plans and price tables
• Configure and maintain price plans and tables
• Test and debug price plans and tables
• Notify other stakeholders when price plans are ready for validation
• Investigate and fix price plan and table issues
Pricing specialists for price data are individual users who configure and maintain some price data in a
selection of data tables configured and stored in SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
An SAP CC pricing specialist for price data is a typical individual user of SAP Convergent Charging who is
responsible for configuring and maintaining some price data in a subset of mapping, range, and agreement
tables. The tables that are available depend on permissions that grant access rights.
The Pricing Specialists for Price Data are responsible for maintaining prices in specific tables configured in
SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
• Analyzing market trends and competitive pricing to develop effective pricing strategies.
• Monitoring and adjusting prices to maximize profitability while maintaining end-customer satisfaction.
• Collaborating with sales and marketing teams to develop pricing promotions and optimize product pricing.
They must have a user account in SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
In the environment of SAP CC, they work with the following apps:
Billing specialists for rating and customer sales representatives (CSRs) are typical individual users of SAP
Convergent Charging.
A customer sales representative (CSR) is a typical individual user of SAP Convergent Charging who is
responsible for the rating process.
Customer sales representatives (CSR) are responsible for managing the rating process, manually executing the
rating process and checking the results, and resolving rating-related issues.
Tasks include viewing subscriber accounts and tables, viewing contracts and allowances, activating contracts,
performing manual rating and checking results, and monitoring the rating process.
• Managing the rating process efficiently by executing it manually, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of
results.
• Resolving rating-related issues promptly and effectively to maintain customer satisfaction and minimize
disruptions.
• Monitoring the rating process continuously to identify and address any anomalies or discrepancies in a
timely manner.
• Managing the rating process: Oversee the entire rating process, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in
executing manual rating and resolving any rating-related issues.
• Executing the rating process: Manually perform rating tasks, including viewing subscriber accounts and
contracts, activating contracts, and monitoring the rating process.
• Checking and resolving issues: Verify rating results for accuracy, identify and resolve any rating-related
issues promptly to maintain data integrity and customer satisfaction.
They must have a user account in SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
They must be granted the role "Billing Specialist - Rating" aka "Customer Sales Representative (CSR)".
In the environment of SAP CC, they work with the following applications:
• SAP CC Cockpit:
Operation Team Members are individual members of a technical operations team and ensure the ongoing
support and management of the SAP system landscapes. They manage the operation supervision for the SAP
CC systems. Some members are the SAP CC system admistrators [page 26].
Member of: "Operations Team", "SAP Operation Team", or "IT Operation Team"
During the operation phase, they consult our SAP product documentation and user assistance:
Related Information
System administrators are individual users who administer the SAP CC systems in the SAP system
landscapes.
An SAP CC system administrator is a typical user of SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) who is responsible for
administering SAP CC systems and applications.
• Installation/maintenance/upgrade
• System configuration
• Continuous tuning of the system to adapt to the evolving workload on the system
• Technical monitoring
• System audit (security)
• Installation, system maintenance, and upgrade project of the SAP CC systems in their technical
environments
• System configuration
• Continuous tuning of the SAP CC system to adapt to the evolving workload on the SAP CC system
• Technical monitoring
• System audit (security)
They must have a user account in SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
User administrators are individual users who manage the declaration and definition of user accounts for SAP
CC users.
An SAP CC user administrator is a typical individual user of SAP Convergent Charging who is responsible for
managing user accounts.
SAP CC user administrators are responsible for creating user accounts, assigning appropriate roles and
permissions, providing necessary access credentials, and managing user accounts, their roles and permissions
throughout their lifecycle – from onboarding to offboarding – to ensure that users can access the necessary
resources while maintaining security.
Tasks include creating SAP CC user accounts, assigning roles and permissions to user accounts, monitoring
user activity, modifying permissions (as of version 2023 FPS 1), locking user accounts, and deleting user
accounts.
• Managing the user accounts and permissions within the company’s Convergent Charging system as
needed.
• Ensuring that user access is appropriate and aligned with security policies.
• Handling the password resets, account lockouts, and other user-related issues.
They must have a user account in SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC).
In the environment of SAP CC, they work with the following applications:
• SAP CC Cockpit:
• Manage User Accounts (as of version 2023 FPS 2)
• Manage Permissions (as of version 2023 FPS 1)
• SAP CC Core Tool
5.9 Developers
Developers are members of the implementation and integration team and model, design, and develop
the integration between SAP Convergent Charging with custom applications or systems. Several technical
interfaces and several technologies are possible.
During the (project) implementation phase, they consult our SAP product documentation and user assistance:
Support specialists are individual members of a support organization and provide technical support, technical
guidance, SAP system interventions, and root cause analysis (RCA).
The support organization is our SAP Support Team or your own technical support and support desk with your
internal support employees or a dedicated partner team.
Note
For your local support organizations, SAP Convergent Charging provides the technical feature Management of
SAP CC Remote Support Users. These typical users have limited authorizations to the systems, user interfaces,
and available operations.
Note
Support specialists provide some technical guidance. Implementers [page 22] and IT consultants from
project teams provide you with functional or business guidance.
Whatever the life cycle phase (implementation phase, operation phase, or upgrade phase) for your SAP CC
system landscape, they consult our SAP product documentation and user assistance:
Service users are typical SAP CC users for machines, systems, and applications that connect to and
communicate with the SAP Convergent Charging systems through different technical interfaces.
Recommendation
Always refer to the up-to-date technical release information in the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) for
SAP Convergent Charging 2023 (aka SAP CC 2023).
See: Product Availability Matrix (PAM) for SAP Convergent Charging 2023 .
Through the Product Availability Matrix (PAM), SAP regularly publishes information about SAP CC software
releases:
• Release types
• Maintenance durations (end of mainstream maintenance, extensions)
• Planned availability
• Upgrade paths from replaced releases
• List of maintenance versions (Feature Package Stacks, Support Package Stacks)
• Database platforms
• Operating systems
• JSE (Java Standard Edition) versions
• Web browsers
• JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) versions
It is important in the evaluation, implementation, operations, and upgrade phases of your SAP CC software
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Architecture
SAP Convergent Charging supports different hyperscalers that run data centers and provide certified
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms.
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (SAP HEC) is a fully scalable and secure service that offers a privately managed
cloud environment. SAP Convergent Charging is available in the SAP HEC infrastructure. See:
SAP Software
SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) enables downloading the installation media from the SAP Software
Download Center (SWDC) on SAP Support Portal.
Tip
Use the following direct links for SAP Convergent Charging 2023:
SAP Convergent Charging (SAP CC) enables downloading the PDF files that compose its product
documentation and user assistance.
On SAP Help Portal, just view a document and click Download PDF to download the complete PDF file (Full
Document) or start customizing a selection of topics.
Tip
On the SAP CC product page ([Link]/cc2023), click Download PDFs to select multiple PDF files to
download at once.
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