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Usage files that are to be mediated are uploaded to the the system via SFTP or by API. Mediation is essentially an exercise in data mapping. LogiSense provides a visual user interface driven mechanism for mapping feed data and transforming it into entities that the core rating engine can interpret.
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For example, a usage feed my may provide twenty fields. When field 5 has a value of "API" the mediation process would use fields 1-6, 10,14,19 ignore the rest and when it has a value of "CPU" it would use 1-6, 9, 11, 13-16. Determination of a usage class is usually a function based on conditions specific to data in the source. LogiSense provides options for managing this thereby allowing reuse of rules and consistency in setting Usage Class values.
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