PROVISIONING, METERING, MONITORING, BILLING AND VIRTUAL STORE FROM A SINGLE WEB-BASED CONSOLE

Open new Business opportunities

• • Users can choose and configure services through the web catalog
  • Configurable catalog to deploy different kind of services for different categories of users
  • Security functionalities, users profiling (Business/Simple)
  • One portal and Single sign-on for integrated services
  • Orders management: change/upgrade, sharing of purchased services
  • Integration with electronic payment systems

  

  

  Catalog

  Self service catalog of software and services. Any service can be exposed enabling final users to configure selected service, as self service

• • Connectors for main public providers and virtualization environments (OpenStack, Azure, VMware, Amazon Web Services and others); standardized communication protocol and provider independence
  • Cloud service distribution and configuration, on ‘public’ and ‘private’ cloud scenario (SaaS)
  • Virtual infrastructure configuration and management (IaaS)
  • Deployment multi-site/multi-region for infrastructures and services
  • Completely manageable by back-office operators

  

  

  Provisioning

  Automatic process for provisioning and configuration of software, services and infrastructures. Multi-provider for virtualized systems

• • Punctual measure of selected products and services usage
  • Real-time capture for physical resources consumption (CPU, storage, bandwidth, RAM), by machine and/or by single process
  • Hierarchical modeling to aggregate the measures (es. at organization level)
  • Definition of alarm thresholds and automation actions following the occurrence of events
  • Notifications for operating groups according to the type of event

  

  

  Metering/Monitoring

  Keeps under control entire infrastructure for hardware, software and services, independently by physical or virtual. Uniform consumptions view

• • Gives a value to services/infrastructures purchased or used and measured by Metering module
  • Defines complex business policies for Cloud Service Providers, such as chargeback policy for internal departments and business units
  • Enables prepayment rules. Allows a flat recurring rate, a consumption-based payment or a combination of the two
  • Supports electronic payment systems including credit cards and Paypal
  • Prepaid cards creation and management
  • Credit portfolio can be centralized or distributed on different users, making it easy to control costs
  • Integration with ERP systems for invoices generation

  

  

  Billing

  Translates resource consumption into costs, by applying recurring fee or pay per use