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Nexign Helps Operators in MEA Slash Time to Market by

up to 5 Times by Introducing Unified Billing

With a high pace of modernisation in the MEA telecommunications
market, CSPs are looking for a partner to support and speed up their
digital transformation. To meet this demand, in 2020 Nexign completed
the large-scale digital transformation project that successfully
addresses the challenges of CSPs globally, including the Middle Eastern
and African regions. The project called “Unified Billing” was carried out
for MegaFon – the provider of digital opportunities that operates in
Russia, Tajikistan, the Republic of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Challenge
MegaFon PJSC is a leader in the Russian and global telecommunications
market, offering wide range of services: mobile and broadband internet
access, digital TV and OTT services, innovative digital products across
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the Internet of
Things, Big Data analytics and processing, cloud solutions and more.
Initially, MegaFon has been evolving as a group of companies that have
become its subsidiaries following the company’s restructuration in
2009.
Since CSPs in the Middle East and Africa

are looking for the way to streamline digital
transformation processes, it is clear that
unified and centralized product management,
as well as technologies like microservices
and methodologies like Fast Track are in huge
Michael Matyushin demand in the market.
Chief Technology Officer
Nexign Apart from establishing unified management standards, strong single
brand and corporate culture, MegaFon wanted to unify the subsidiaries’
IT infrastructure to take its business to the next level and facilitate
digital transformation. With billing system being the backbone of the IT
infrastructure, the fact that subsidiaries were utilizing seven separate
solutions with different logic and custom code led to an array of issues.
Such variety of BSS systems did not allow to fully unify the company's
business processes. It also hindered launching new offerings, made
integration of partner services more complicated and required
substantial investments to support these systems.

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