The role of collaboration in building better billing: Elevate IQ & GoCardless

Factors inherent within legacy billing and monetisation platforms have earned these systems a bad reputation. Even before 2015, when we launched Elevate IQ billing, we heard the same complaints about traditional solutions. Billing was slow, inefficient, error-strewn, and vulnerable from a security perspective. Billing took time away from other tasks more impactful to a business’ growth ambitions. Ultimately, organisations felt that billing restricted them, rather than providing a launchpad for accelerated growth.
Innovation in Telecoms: Wail Sabbagh Joins Zen’s Richard Tang for an Industry Deep Dive

We’re proud to have collaborated with Zen Internet for years, always focusing on technological and service innovation within the telecoms industry. Our MD Wail Sabbagh was invited to join Zen’s Richard Tang in the latest episode of his brilliant interview series, profiling telecoms’ best-known business leaders.The full-length interview is now live, and covers Strategic Imperatives’ […]
Catalysts for Success: 10 essential features for wholesale billing systems

In this article, we will explore the differentiating features and capabilities that wholesale providers require from their billing system in this dynamic and demanding sector. Wholesale Service Providers occupy a unique position in the telecommunications industry. They serve as intermediaries between network infrastructure providers and retail ISPs or businesses, enabling the distribution of digital services […]
Dave McCourt Jr gives Comms Business his telecoms trends for 2025

Dave McCourt Jr, Head of Marketing, Communications and Strategic relationships at Strategic Imperatives, speaks exclusively to Comms Business. The telecoms industry is moving at an unprecedented pace. We only need to look at the sheer number of partnerships being made and accelerated technological innovation to see this. So, as the sun sets on 2024, we […]
FullFibre selects Strategic Imperatives as its Strategic Billing and Monetisation partner

Wholesale network provider will drive monetisation through Elevate IQ as part of its ambitious growth strategy. Staines upon Thames – 5th July 2023: Strategic Imperatives, a UK market leader in SaaS billing, monetisation, and subscription solutions, is delighted to announce that FullFibre has, after extensive due diligence, selected their award-winning billing platform, Elevate IQ, to enable […]
Transforming monetisation with Elevate: An OVO Retail Telecoms Case Study

Firsthand experience is always the most honest and accurate, and this became obvious during our conversation with Andy Pirie, Head of Retail Telecoms at OVO. Whilst we interviewed Andy to conduct a written case study for Elevate IQ, our award-winning billing solution, it seemed only logical to share it too! Watch the interview here: With […]
Data monetisation and predictive analytics: An untapped opportunity for Service Providers

Chief Technology Officer at Strategic Imperatives, Matt Brewster, explores the opportunity for service providers to unlock the value of data to create a competitive advantage. Communication Service Providers hold an immense source of information that can deliver valuable business intelligence, predict opportunities, and create a rich engagement model with their customers, however, this goldmine mostly […]
Why best-in-class billing systems are a game changer for the channel

Rapid change is reshaping the telecoms services market, writes MD Wail Sabbagh. IOT, OTT & cloud services are widespread and the 5G promise of a future of smart cities, connected communities and multi-layered services are quickly expanding beyond the prototype phase. Service providers must expand if they are to thrive, and that means offering services […]
Entanet switches up its billing to Elevate IQ

Entanet, one of the UK’s leading wholesale providers of connectivity services, has successfully migrated its line rental billing to Elevate IQ. The cloud-based billing system created by Strategic Imperatives represents a major system upgrade. Elevate IQ is Imperatives’ transformative approach to the sector’s need for a new solution to billing. The system is increasingly being […]
Awarding-winning ISP Zen Internet selects Elevate IQ

Zen Internet, the pioneering ISP company that provides data, voice and hosting services to hundreds of UK businesses, has elevated its billing to the cloud thanks to a partnership with Strategic Imperatives. Multi award-winning ISP Zen, which boasts more than 90,000 customers, always partners with like-minded organisations which understand the value of technical innovation and […]