What's New in SAP Convergent Charging 2023 FPS03

AbhijeetDhar · ‎2025 Mar 04

New Release

PUBLIC

February 2025

Dear Convergent Charging and BRIM community,

We are glad to announce another release of the latest SAP Convergent Charging 2023 FPS3, which introduces intuitive features designed to enhance functionality and user experience. This update brings exciting capabilities, including new monitoring metrics for business data growth, streamlined cockpit deployment via SAPInst, enhanced Fiori App and integration capabilities, and an improved, more user-friendly cockpit experience.

Let's dive into these latest product features in detail, highlighting our latest pricing and charging capabilities as part of the SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM) suite.

New metrics for monitoring business data growth

Managing business data growth is critical for ensuring optimal system performance. The latest enhancement in this release introduces proactive monitoring metrics to track key entities such as Subscriber Account Count, Contract Count, and Mapping Table Row Count. By continuously monitoring data growth, you can identify potential issues early, rather than reacting when performance problems have already occurred. This ensures better system stability and smooth operations, even as solutions evolve and new implementations drive data increases.

With this feature, customers can gain greater control and predictability over the system landscape. With the new standard view that shows the evolution of the growth in the row of the key metrics rows over the months helps detect anomalies before they impact performance, while historical data tracking enables more accurate forecasting and capacity planning. This not only helps prevent unexpected slowdowns but also improves operational efficiency, ensuring a seamless experience with an uninterrupted charging process.

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Key Benefits:

Track Growth of Business Data Objects – Gain real-time insights into expanding business data, helping identify trends and prevent performance bottlenecks.
Improve User Assistance and Support – Enhance system monitoring, streamline troubleshooting, and provide proactive support to maintain high availability and reliability.

New Introscope metrics are now available for effective monitoring, allowing users to define thresholds and set alerts for these metrics. For more information about this new feature, refer to the Display Usage Metrics topic and details regarding Introscope on the SAP Help Portal.

Facilitation of the deployment of the Cockpit with an installer

With this release, the deployment of SAP CC Cockpit has been simplified by integrating it with SAPInst, aligning its installation process with the Core Server. This ensures a more structured and streamlined setup, reducing complexity and making it easier for businesses to adopt the Cockpit. With this improvement, the , ensuring a more cohesive deployment process within the SAP CC system.

By integrating Cockpit deployment into SAPInst, businesses can experience improved system stability and reduced support incidents related to manual deployment. This new method provides of deployment provides more standardized and efficient approach to installation and gain higher adoption of Cockpit. While the existing option of deploying on Apache Tomcat remains available.

Feature enablement

Simplify the deployment of the Cockpit: Easily install and update the Cockpit through SAPInst, reducing manual efforts.
Minimizes errors and deployment issues and provides flexibility
Reduce the number of support incidents linked to the deployment of the CC Cockpit

Learn more about this feature from our SAP help page for Installation and Maintenance Guide

Enhancement of the Display Contracts Fiori app to display allowances of a contract

With this release, the Display Contracts Fiori app in Cockpit has been further enhanced to provide a display of associated allowances assigned in a contract. This update enables users to quickly locate and review contract details, including associated contract and its activated allowances, ensuring greater transparency and accuracy in rating and billing processes. With this enhancement, billing specialists can efficiently verify provisioned provider contract data, along with key parameters and counters of the assigned allowances, thus improving overall operational efficiency.

Key Benefits:

Enhanced Contract Visibility – Easily access and review allowances linked to a contract, ensuring transparency in charging.
Improved Data Verification – view the activated allowance logic of an allowance including activation date/time & current value of counters.
Increased Operational Efficiency – Enable billing specialists to quickly verify contract details, enhancing workflow efficiency and accuracy.

Learn more about this feature from SAP Help portal: Cockpit Apps > Display Contracts

Other Enhancements

In addition to the features mentioned above, SAP Convergent Charging 2023 FPS03 also introduces other enhancements:

SAP Note for Minimum Hardware Requirements for an SAP Convergent Charging Development Environment

Our customer has requested an optimal hardware configuration for running a development environment. In response, we have released SAP Note 3568851, which outlines the essential hardware requirements for creating and testing pricing configurations.

By following these guidelines, customers can significantly reduce infrastructure costs by avoiding oversized hardware configurations. Adhering to these recommendations not only ensures optimal performance but also enhances overall operational efficiency. We strongly encourage our customers to implement these best practices for a cost-effective and high-performing development environment.

Find more details on the hardware configuration required, refer to the SAP Note: 3568851

Support for additional pricing components in the Cockpit

The latest update introduces two powerful pricing components to enhance flexibility and precision in charge calculations. The "Number Matching" comparator (formerly Interval Switching) allows the pricing specialists to compare numeric properties against specific values or intervals, ensuring more granular control over pricing rules.

Additionally, the "Number Split-Based Addition" aggregator (formerly Numbers Splitter) enables more dynamic pricing in the pricing tree of the charges and in pricing functions.

Benefits

Enhance support for more complex pricing scenarios from the Cockpit

Find more details about this feature from the SAP Help portal:

Renaming of nodes in pricing trees

To improve usability, we’ve introduced a Rename action in the Manage Rate Plans and Manage Pricing Functions apps. Available in both the toolbar and context menu, this feature allows users to rename pricing tree nodes for better business relevance or can even reset node name to the default name computed by the app. Additionally, tooltips now display component names for enhanced clarity. These improvements streamline pricing configuration, making it more intuitive and user-friendly.

Find more detail about this feature from SAP Help portal:

3rd party updates

With this release, JCo has been upgraded to version 3.1, ensuring improved connectivity and performance. Additionally, we’ve introduced an optional check for JCo destination in SAPInst, enhancing installation flexibility.

More Information

SAP Convergent Charging 2023 FPS 03 has been released and is generally available to customers from Feb 2025 and is available on the SAP Software Download Center.

For more information on SAP Convergent Charging 2023 FPS 03, check out the following links: