Solutions for Cloud Providers

Why is the cloud provider billing and payments problem different than that facing today's SaaS vendors. The cloud market has the promise of being the purest form of on-demand solutions:

• Pure metered services? Amazon is leading the way here with their elastic services. Billing is based on purely metered usage. Many SaaS vendors are pricing services on less volatile metrics.
• High degree of customer control: We're seeing cloud providers enabling the ultimate in customer control over how they consume cloud services. Most services allow consumption to be controlled via APIs, turning up and down services as needed. This certainly raises the complexity of the cloud billing problem.
• Future pricing plans: We see cloud providers moving toward Telco and ISP type pricing models to try and shape their usage. Ideas such as off peak rates, bracketed and tiered usage rates will become the standard.

Call us to see how the IPA Billing and Payments product suite combined with our expertise in the Telco and ISP world can provide a simple solution to the complex cloud billing problem.