Enterprise
How do you evaluate a rights and settlement ledger vendor for telecom or media?
Rights and settlement here is a many-party reconciliation problem, run today by spreadsheet and dispute.
The answer
Before evaluating any vendor, get the counterparties to agree on one schema — ownership splits, usage reporting fields, and the arbitration path when a report is disputed. That is a commercial negotiation, not a technical detail, and a vendor selected before schema agreement is a vendor selected to solve the wrong problem first.
What good settlement infrastructure actually does
Interconnect and rights settlement between multiple parties who do not share a system today is a genuinely good fit for a shared record — the discipline transfers directly from the register work this practice does in capital markets and real estate. The vendor question that matters is who arbitrates a disputed usage report, and whether that path was designed rather than improvised after the first dispute.
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Tell us what you are trying to build and what has to be true for it to work.
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