Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator 3.1 offers advanced flexible metering and billing and integration, simplified product catalog management and extensive customization
London, UK – 14 May 2013 – Flexiant, a leading international provider of cloud orchestration software and a Gartner Cool Vendor, today announced that it has released Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator 3.1. The latest version extends functionality and integration for metering and billing cloud services, simplifies product catalog management across reseller environments, and offers extensive customization with upgraded Flexiant APIs, Flexiant Query Language and a new Flexiant Development Language.
More Flexible Metering and Billing and Integration
Cloud services accentuate what is already a significant challenge for many service providers. The on-demand, agile and instantly-scalable nature of the cloud demands a metering and billing engine that is flexible enough to cope with different business models.
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator’s already comprehensive metering and billing solution now offers support and flexibility for customizable billing based on a cloud service provider’s requirements. This includes the ability to integrate reseller specific product and pricing customization, customer specific user interfaces and service offerings. For instance, customers can now adopt the following metering and billing strategies, through integration with their existing billing system:
Full ‘pay as you go’ cloud billing with granular metering
Bill a fixed amount for individual virtual machines with fixed configurations, with separate metering for disk I/O and/or bandwidth
Bill a fixed amount for a bundle of resources shared between virtual data centres while allowing capacity bursts to be charged in arrears on a pay as you go basis
Any other method required by using Flexiant Development Language
Tony Lucas, Product Champion and Founder, Flexiant said, “This level of flexibility makes it significantly easier for service providers to move their existing business model to cloud services, which overcomes one of the key challenges in adoption. With 3.1, customers can customize standard billing models to meet their specific needs and also integrate it easily with existing systems.”
Product Catolog and Service Management
Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator 3.1 now includes a product catalog to help manage and simplify management of product and service offerings. New capabilities include:
Reseller and customer templates
Reseller and customer specific pricing and service offers
Flexible metering periods
Retiring/managing products
Hierarchical product management
Lucas continued, “When moving to a cloud model, service providers will need to determine how to offer different pricing structures, support new products and multiple resellers. This risks leading to product catalog complexity. Employing our solution allows easy tracking, management and metering of a wide range of products, allowing differentiation, customized services and new reseller opportunities.”
Improved Extensibility and Customization
Improved extensibility allows flexibility for Flexiant and third parties to easily extend functionality of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to meet business requirements. New extensibility and flexibility includes:
‘API first’ policy to enable all functionality through powerful APIs
Enhancements to Flexiant Query Language to enable flexible data management and better reporting
Flexiant Development Language for bespoke customization for each service provider customer
“The enhanced APIs and Query Language together with our new Development Language make it easier for third party tools to integrate fully with Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator and allow our customers to build differentiated models without the need for Flexiant’s involvement,” Lucas added.
George Knox, CEO of Flexiant said, “We continue to invest in Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to improve constantly the value it brings to cloud service providers. This latest upgrade gives greater functionality, reduces complexity and supports new and individual business models. All this comes hot on the heels of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in cloud management.”
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