Kenan AX rounds out the Kenan Monetization Realization Platform as a highly agile, web-based offering that is delivered through public data centers. This just-announced variant will be showcased at Mobile World Congress 2015 in the form of interactive demos and uses cases. Kenan AX fully addresses the need of any enterprise that requires advanced order-to-cash tools, embedded customer care and with optional Salesforce integration, and API tie-in to other third-party products to succeed in the digital economy.

As many have learned the hard way, cloud customers in new verticals are not prepared to handle the intricacies of BSS, and basic cloud billing doesn’t cut the mustard. As a result, time to market is often poor, bills are inaccurate, and other problems arise. At the same time, these customers are expecting software to be quickly adaptable and agile due to the cloud. Kenan AX succeeds where others fail, by delivering the power of the Kenan platform in a solution that is easily adaptable to any use case.

Unlike new market entrants who are learning as they go, and whose products are often based on their first development contract, Comverse has “been engaged with customers in different verticals for years and has delivered thousands of successful monetization projects for all of our customers,” says Robert Barrows, VP, Head of Enterprise & Cloud Monetization Products & Strategy, Comverse. “What we’ve seen is that a lot of companies are now launching new businesses and new lines of services that not only need to be launched much faster than they traditionally were, but need to be future proof so that they scale and adapt as those new lines of business grow. That’s why Comverse has focused on the agile part of the Kenan platform.”

Like Kenan FX and Kenan CX, Kenan AX offers agnostic service modeling--any product or service, any time,any language, paid in any currency. It offers a single interaction point for customers with billing and invoice convergence. And like the rest of the Kenan platform, Kenan AX benefits from pre-integration with Salesforce and the robust API set. What’s more, Kenan is ready for NFV. “Unlike other solutions that are hard-coded, Kenan implements the mapping of network and provisioning parameters associated with a service as dynamic database configuration rather than hard-coding, and therefore has been able to adapt to NFV implementations with no changes to the core product,” said Raman Abrol. “Customers have implemented Kenan on NFV very easily with no need for help from Comverse, including a recent client in Europe. That client services several countries with a single instance of Kenan on an NFV infrastructure.”

Hesitation can be fatal

The digital economy moves at cloud speed, and hesitation can be fatal for any enterprise that fails to keep pace. While subscription billing has become popular, so have its shortcomings, so you’d better plan for your successful future rather than simply satisfy the needs you have today. According to a recent THINKStrategies White Paper, “the new generation of Cloud-based billing systems also falls short in satisfying the monetization lifecycle management needs of large enterprises at scale. These point solutions are unable to handle the volume and complexity of digital services being launched today.”

You may be familiar with earlier iterations of Kenan. But with the recent evolution and launch of Kenan as the Monetization Realization Platform and addition of Kenan CX and Kenan AX, Comverse is evolving a proven workhorse revenue management product in Kenan into a true agile and scalable solution that combines the robustness and security of a carrier-grade solution with the agility of the cloud. Enterprises today require tools for the future that support any service model, anywhere, any time, and the ability to scale globally. The Comverse Kenan Monetization Realization Platform is a proven option, and with three variants, it can be operated on premise (Kenan FX), from a customized private cloud (Kenan CX), or as an agile web-based service (Kenan AX), effectively transforming any size business, in any industry vertical, anywhere in the world at any time.