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Migrating to Oracle PDC: A Complete Guide for Telecom Pricing Transformation

Pricing Migration to Oracle PDC from Pricing Centre

In today’s competitive telecommunications landscape, agility in pricing and product management can make or break a service provider's market position. As telecom operators seek to modernise their BSS infrastructure, migrating from legacy pricing systems to Oracle’s Pricing Design Centre (PDC) has become a strategic imperative. However, this migration requires careful planning, systematic execution, and a deep understanding of both source and target systems. This blog outlines the essential phases, strategies, and best practices to ensure a successful pricing migration to Oracle PDC, minimising risks and maximising the benefits of this powerful platform.

Why Oracle Pricing Design Centre?

The Oracle Communications Pricing Design Centre (PDC) is a web-based application for rapid design and deployment of product offerings, supporting the full spectrum of pricing capabilities of the underlying charging and rating solutions.
With its business-driven workflows to create and manage product offerings, Pricing Design Centre enables the communications service provider to create new offers and promotions in minutes, a key element of success in an increasingly demanding and competitive market.

How to Migrate to Oracle Pricing Design Centre?

Pricing migration is also the same as any other data migration: Extract Pricing data from the OBRM database, transform it into the target system’s data model, and load the extracted data to the PDC database.

Migration Phases

The pricing migration process can be categorised into the following phases:

Data Analysis: In this phase, the pricing data from the OBRM database is extracted and analysed for any errors in existing pricing configurations or errors due to data model changes in the pricing design centre. The errors found in this phase need to be fixed to proceed to the next phase. Analysis reports are analysed, respective configuration changes are made in OBRM before restarting the migration process.

Data Analysis Process

Data Migration: In this phase, the pricing data from the OBRM database is extracted, transformed, and enriched to the PDC data model and then loaded into the PDC database.

The migration utility adjusts OBRM pricing data in the XML files, as required, to enable the transformation of the PDC data model.
The migration utility transforms OBRM pricing data to PDC components and saves them in XML files.
The migration utility loads PDC components into the PDC database.
The migration utility loads new and updated OBRM objects (resulting from the data adjustments) into the OBRM database.
The migration utility generates a migration report with information about OBRM objects that were successfully migrated to the PDC database.
The migration utility generates the process report with information about the BRM objects that were created or updated in the OBRM database.

Migration Overview

Migration Approach

The pricing migration follows a bottom-up approach where configuration objects are migrated first, followed by pricing objects. Configuration objects include metadata and setup data.

The following are the pricing object categories:

Products and the following objects referenced in the products are migrated
Discounts and all objects referenced in the discounts
Sponsorship
Subscription

Oracle PDC Migration Strategy

Create a backup of the OBRM database and make sure pricing data from production is available in the OBRM database.
Install WebLogic and PDC.
Install ECE if the migration is from the batch rating engine to ECE.
Identify the functional gaps between the Pricing Centre and the PDC. List the changes needed in existing pricing components to migrate configurations that are not natively supported in PDC, and prepare scripts to correct them.
Cleanup or correct the invalid pricing objects or pricing configurations from the current BRM system, as it may lead to errors during migration. All such data can be easily found during the data analysis phase.
Identify pricing configurations used in the current system that are not supported in the PDC and reconfigure those objects to make them compatible with PDC.
Migrate pricing components from OBRM to PDC using the migration utility provided as part of the Pricing Design Centre installation.
Get fixes from Oracle by raising Oracle SRs for any issues found during this process.
Restart the WebLogic and supported components like syncPDC, RRE, and BRE.
Start testing the new system once the migration is done.

Conclusion

Migrating pricing data to Oracle PDC is a complex but rewarding undertaking that demands meticulous planning, thorough data analysis, and systematic execution. By following the phased approach outlined above—from initial data analysis through migration to testing—telecommunications service providers can successfully transition to a more agile, business-driven pricing platform. The key to success lies in identifying gaps early, cleaning up legacy data, and leveraging Oracle's migration utilities effectively.

Ready to modernise your pricing infrastructure? Covalense Digital’s Oracle experts have extensive experience in Oracle PDC implementation and migration. Contact us to discuss how we can help you achieve a seamless transition to Oracle Pricing Design Centre, enabling faster time-to-market for new offers and improved operational efficiency. You can also get in touch with our team today at reachus@covalensedigital.com.

Author

Vilva Sabarikanth | Senior Principal Architect
A technology enthusiast with multi-domain expertise in Oracle BRM, PDC, AWS, OCI, and cloud-native architectures. Vilva is passionate about designing innovative BSS solutions and mentoring teams on emerging cloud technologies to deliver value-driven frameworks that accelerate digital transformation. With deep experience across the Telecom, Utility, and MSO landscapes, he bridges the gap between evolving technology and industry-specific needs, delivering scalable, enterprise-grade solutions for global operators.

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