Patent ID: 7136467

Claim:
A method for analyzing telecommunications data relating to a business entity, using business entity aggregation criteria, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining telecommunications provider invoices from a plurality of telecommunications providers that include telecommunications data relating to the business entity; (b) aggregating the telecommunications data from the telecommunication provider invoices of the plurality of telecommunications providers according to business entity aggregation criteria to create an aggregated bill for the business entity; (c) separating at least a portion of the aggregated bill into service categories; (d) storing in a database, locations or sites of a customer's telecommunication services, services provided by site, a list of providers of each service, and accounts used for each billing service; (e) providing a translation table to translate each telecommunications provider codes for its telecommunications data to a standard code implemented for use in the database; (f) checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices and discrepancies between the billing data and the translation data; (g) providing forecast from the telecommunication provider invoices and combinations of consolidated telecommunication data; and (h) including a data querying application accessible to the business entity that is capable of performing the search, selecting the desired data, or other processing of the data.