WARP4 is the first of a new generation of rating engines offering top-class performance and unprecedented power. The WARP4 rating engine enables you to define flexible pricing schemes which operate in real time and which meet the rating needs of today’s value added services.

• Complex pricing in real time. WARP4 offers you the advantage of real-time pricing. WARP4 provides immediate responses to rating requests from any kind of external software system.
• Discounts and incentives. You can provide discounts and special offers on current and future purchases based on previous purchases. This enables you to develop a wide range of marketing initiatives aimed at stimulating further business.
• Dynamic profiling. You can create a dynamic profile for each single subscriber. This profile takes into account the real-time status of the subscriber and tailors price discounts to appeal accordingly. You can, for example, apply a discount based on such considerations as the subscriber's current physical location or the purchases other members of the subscriber's family have recently made.
• Advanced credit management. You can use WARP4 to apply complex rating techniques for prepaid as well as for postpaid subscribers. You don't need to compromise complexity for speed. You can use WARP4 to authorise complex prepaid transactions in real time.
• Managing complex wholesale agreements. With WARP4 you can define pricing schemes which take into account wholesale agreements, relationships with sponsors, content partners and others. You can price transactions with complex wholesale agreements and produce multiple rated items for immediate delivery to subscribers and for real-time reconciliation with partners and sponsors.
• Powerful yet simple user interface. You define all rating policies using an easy-to-use graphical user interface. The interface includes a familiar explorer tree design together with a drawing-based drill-down approach to defining pricing schemes. You can perform immediate rollout by simply drag-and-dropping the pricing schemes you have defined to the relevant customer sites shown on the WARP4 graphical user interface.
• Full scalability. With WARP4 there’s no need for compromise as your customer base grows and your value chain relationships build in complexity. WARP4 handles a constantly increasing customer base and value chain network without any loss in performance.

Thanks to its innovative design, WARP4 overcomes the four major obstacles to successful bridging the gap between prepaid and postpaid scenarios:

• Poor latency
• Poor throughput
• Lack of session/transaction control
• Poor flexibility in defining authorization policies

Such design makes WARP4:

• The first rating system effectively able to bridge the gap between prepaid and postpaid scenarios
• Able to manage services and products regardless of the technology that actually underlies them (for instance wireless or wireline delivery of calls or contents or delivery of physical goods to consumer in an e-store scenario)
• Be easily integrated with any platform or system already in place