Today there are many solutions on the market that promise to enable service providers to get up and running quickly with a infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud. The reality is that, while these solutions can enable you to become cloud-ready from a level of infrastructure, there is a significant gap between a standing cloud with technology and become business ready and able start selling and merchandising your offer on the market. Since the early days of the cloud, Citrix has helped suppliers with technologies that help them get to market faster with solutions that are designed from the ground to the cloud. One of the key factors of our success with the construction of large public clouds is our intense focus on creating a business layer that bridges the gap between the implementation and delivery of services.
Take your IaaS cloud market requires loan business layer that will fill this gap. A layer that can offer you include:
(a) A portal for secure self-service that can stand alone or integrated with your fabric existing BSS
(b) A service catalog exposing products of underlying IaaS cloud that is available to customers for subscription and e-commerce
(c) A CRM module that allows you to track and monitor the activity of all your customer support with questions and problem tickets, and nourish a community experience that allows the sharing of knowledge through wikis and discussion forums
and above a layer that can process measured usage data - data that is completely unaware enterprise - from the underlying cloud and convert it into billable business information by applying aware mediation and listing rules.
At Citrix Synergy Barcelona, we introduced Citrix® CloudPortal ™, our new product line that transforms raw cloud resources into real online businesses. As part of this product line, we are pleased to present "CloudPortal Business Manager" that provides you on business layer you need to take to market the IaaS cloud you built on Citrix CloudStack.
as the service provider your value proposition Purpose-built and completely unique. Whether your goal is developers who require close clouds at prices of utilities or companies who prefer managed clouds for recurring subscriptions, your differentiation must be surfaced all the way from the type infrastructure that is used at the lowest level to the way it is offered for trade and billed at the highest level. CloudPortal Business Manager allows you to do just that. Its integration out-of-the-box with Citrix CloudStack allows you to expose the IaaS offers products that can be grouped and offered in catalogs segmented with different prices. In addition, if customers need to be on-board differently - self-service retail class customers who pay by credit card / debit card or assisted service for enterprise customers who pay by POs and invoices, CloudPortal business Manager allows such use cases with measures to control fraud.
Show me the money
either your customers or end users yourself that business, you do not want to wait until the end of month billing period to see the use of your cloud. Want to see your expenditure (end user) or monetization (business) on an ongoing basis. end users CloudPortal Business allows manager to track their day to month expenses over expenditure budgets and service providers to track product performance and control credit risk through credit limits and triggers threshold billing.
cloud-proven and fast
While CloudPortal Business Manager seems relatively new on the market, however there already some big powers such as IDC Frontier cloud NOAH cloud, cloud nine times, and Tata Communications InstaCompute, supporting some cases very different use.
Finally, while the CloudPortal Business Manager today accelerates speed to market your IaaS cloud, not all. With our planned integration with CloudPortal Services Manager, the range of products CloudPortal allow service providers to offer a variety of services such as storage, desktop and applications, all in a seamless experience of single portal where use of different cloud computing services are aggregated and treated against, distinct billable client entities.
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