cloud service providers that in a highly competitive market with the abundance of service providers, their market share is growing is certainly challenging. One way that cloud service providers can differentiate their cloud is. By additional cloud deployment and IT services such as hosted Windows applications and desktops and hosted Microsoft applications This will also cloud service providers allow to reduce churn and increase customer stickiness. Cloud service providers can also increase their profitability by diversifying its cloud business model by reselling white label versions of their cloud service offerings through channel partners. Today Citrix took another big step towards enabling cloud service providers these objectives with the general availability release of 2.3 CloudPortal Business Manager reach!
CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 cloud service provider enables more profitable cloud business models and services to implement improved support for channel partner capabilities and a broader portfolio of Microsoft applications.
What is Cloud Portal Business Manager?
CloudPortal Business Manager is a unified platform delivery and business management cloud services, the delivery, operational, combines trade and user management aspects of a cloud and simplifies , Organizations can aggregate infrastructure, cloud, IT and value-added services and deliver them to the user through a simple, self-service catalog of cloud services. Users can for cloud services, shopping provision and manage services in a self-service fashion.
In addition, service delivery, CloudPortal Business Manager centralizes user management, deployment, and operational aspects of a cloud in a single, comprehensive skiing cloud business platform. CloudPortal Business Manager provides powerful tools provisioning and orchestration to automate workflows with customer service functions along as onboarding, Billing and Metering efficient cloud running.
The extensible architecture makes it easy to provide a wide range of cloud services while integrating with existing business processes and IT systems such as help desk, ticketing, payment gateways, CRM and billing systems. Custom business rules and workflow requirements can be easily injected for service interactions such as account activation and provisioning requests business processes and technical requirements to ensure are met.
What in CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3? New
CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 adds several new features and improvements to implement the customer more profitable cloud business models and services
Improved support for cloud service reseller enable business model . - The Cloud Portal Business Manager Version 2.3 enables cloud service providers their cloud services with an improved channel-specific branding channel partners to sell.
with Cloud Portal Business Manager 2.3, a channel partner cloud service providers can now use their own branded content such as channel-specific CSS, Logo, favicon and content templates. This branding assets can be used CloudPortal Business dissolved Manager interface to make using a channel-specific FQDN.
The channel-specific features allow to also channel partners blacklisted / whitelisted email domains and countries, and highlight the channel as open / closed for the self-registration.
CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 also offers channel-level usage and aggregation functions output and allows to produce for use and spending reports at the channel level.
This extension can cloud service providers white label versions of their cloud service offerings through channel partners and profitability models increase by diversifying the cloud business to resell
Expanded support for Microsoft applications. Lync, SharePoint - CloudPortal Business Manager 2.2 release include integration with Cloud Portal Services Manager using the Cloud Portal Business Manager connector architecture. This integration has been with Cloud Portal Business Manager Version 2.3 extends Microsoft Lync and SharePoint support. As a result, now this integration provides the following benefits to service providers:
- A single slice-of-glass to deploy Microsoft Lync and SharePoint in addition to hosted applications, desktops and hosted Microsoft Exchange, delivered by Cloud Portal Services Manager additionally supplied to a wide range of cloud services currently provided by CloudPortal Business Manager.
- a unified billing solution for all services provided by Cloud Portal Business Manager and CloudPortal Services Manager.
- their cloud differentiation and increase customer stickiness to deliver by several cloud services from a single platform
- improve the user experience with a simple interface for provisioning and management of applications, desktops and a wide range of cloud services hosted
- billing processes with unified billing for Cloud portal Business Manager and service Manager [create
- improve operational efficiency with a simplified workflow easier and customer accounts and subscriptions manage
- improve the visibility and control with a unified dashboard for the service status and metrics
upgrade path - a simple upgrade process - 1.4.7 to Cloud portal 2.3 and portal Cloud 2.1.0-2.1.1 and 2.2.0-2.2.1 to Cloud portal 1.4.3: allows customers of to move an earlier version of Cloud portal directly CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 without any intermediate steps. 2.3
In addition, Citrix Cloud Platform Business Manager to continue to support these important functions
Cloud Services Catalog -. create a custom catalog of services, including IaaS, Cloud, added value and IT services that delivered to users through a simple, self-service catalog
Citrix and partner Connectors -. CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 makes it easier for IT to a service broker with 3rd party connections from partners such Appcara, ActiveState, Caringo, Cloudian, cloud, CumuLogic and transform others. CloudPortal Business Manager 2.3 also contains reference connections for Apache CloudStack and OpenStack-terminal has been updated to be compatible with OpenStack Icehouse version. CloudPortal Business Manager continues deeper integration with Citrix products support connections to Citrix Cloud Platform and Cloud Portal Services Manager.
Where can I learn more about Cloud Portal Business Manager?
as the next step, I encourage all to:
- Download 2.3 CPBM: http://www.citrix.com/downloads/cloudportal/product-software.html
- more information on Cloud portal Business Manager at www.citrix.com/cloudportal
- Watch CloudPortal Business Manager at a glance: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/9228
- clock allows the travel IT-as-a-service video: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/9225
- watch videos about CloudPortal Business Manager CitrixTV : http://www.citrix.com / tv / # tags / cloud portal + business + manager
- in the product documentation reviewed Citrix edocs site - http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/ cloud portal / CCPB business manager.html
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