Guarding margins and supporting growth – in any direction
IDI has its roots in the competitive telecommunications marketplace. The foundation of our CostGuard telecom billing and OSS application is a powerful rating and billing engine that performs the complex rating, bundling, contract management, and discounting functions that CLECs, wholesale carriers, resellers and IP providers demand.
Helping wireline providers stay competitive and secure their margins, IDI’s CostGuard solution provides the operational insights needed to streamline operations and enhance productivity.
Gain Billing Efficiencies, Guard Your Revenue
- Support for corporate hierarchies
Manage complex corporate relationships with n-tier hierarchies that include functionality for establishing invoice responsibility, discounts, contract management and more. - Workflow automation
Build out custom work plans to manage complex processes involving manual and automated operations and maximize efficiency. - Product management and pricing for any business model
CostGuard provides powerful capabilities in product management and rating that together support myriad products, services, bundles, discounts and business models. Wherever your business in growing, CostGuard can support it. - Capture all your revenue
Revenue leakage erodes your bottom line. Use CostGuard’s powerful Unbillable Usage Interface to ensure you are able to protect your hard-earned revenue. - Integrate with ease
CostGuard’s well-documented APIs make it easy to share critical data points with internal systems and third-party partners. - Agent support
Utilize the CostGuard SalesCentral module to efficiently manage your agent network. SalesCentral creates quotes and seamlessly turns them into orders
IDI’s Comprehensive Solution for the Cloud Includes
See How Other Wireline Providers Use CostGuard
- Penn Telecom (Consolidated Communications) Case Study (pdf)
- McGraw Communications Press Release
CostGuard.NET OSS/BSS and enhanced EBPP solution, OnlineBill, to improve back office productivity and enhance the end user experience - NetWolves Press Release
NetWolves Upgrades CostGuard OSS/BSS Solution to Accommodate Business Evolution and Growth.

