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Billing and chargeback for your
System Center 2012 SP1 Cloud
ISV Partner Alliance Value
Cloud Cruiser
Product Description
Primary Capability:
• End-to-end cost transparency across heterogeneous IT environments
• Granular chargeback and billing
Additional Capability:
• Flexible pricing capabilities
• COGS and P&L reporting
• Reports, invoices, and business intelligence
• Budgets, alerts, and consumption forecasting
• Audit and compliance capabilities
Product Description: A cost analytics solution that enables hosters to
collect, analyze, optimize, and bill for resources being used throughout
heterogeneous public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
System Center 2012 SP1 Integration:
• Service Manager
• Operations Manager
• Virtual Machine Manager
Next Steps
Cost:
•
Revenue license subscription model
•
Annual maintenance fee
•
Volume discount available
Support:
Support Type
Yes
No
Cost
Availability
Self-Help
X
Included
24 x 7
Assisted:
Web/Mail
X
Included
8am-8pm EST
M-F
Assisted: Phone
X
Included
8am-8pm EST
M-F
Assisted: On-site
X
Per contract
Per contract
Website:
www.cloudcruiser.com
Global Sales Contact: Victoria McCracken, Senior Sales Specialist( victoriam@cloudcruiser.com or microsoft@cloudcruiser.com )
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Cloud Cruiser- Architecture
Microsoft Collectors
Service
Manager
Operations
Manager
Heterogeneous Collectors
Virtual Machine
Manager
Business Rules
and Database
Structure metadata
Hypervisors
Web Services
Databases
Facilities/Labor
Aggregate data
Cloud Cruiser
Database
Map to accounting structure
DATABASE
Resources
Product Information:
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/solutions
System Center Integration:
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/microsoft
Technical Support:
microsoft@cloudcruiser.com
Invoke pricing engine
Apply budgets and alerts
External
Systems
User Interface and
Reporting
Secure, self-service portal
Reporting
Billing
Business Intelligence
General Ledger
Administration
Other Systems
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Cloud Cruiser- Deployment
Deployment Overview
Resources
Cloud Cruiser -SC2012 SP1 Product Info:
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/microsoft
FAQs:
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/resources/
faqs.html
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Cloud Cruiser - Case Studies
Case Study #1 – SHI International
Title: Cost Management Makes Internet2 Community Cloud a Reality
Summary: SHI is a global provider of high performance, high availability IaaS multi-tenant cloud. By
bundling Cloud Cruiser's cost intelligence platform with their solution, SHI was able to meet a critical
requirement for granular cost visibility and chargeback to win a lucrative community cloud deal with
Internet2, a networking consortium of more than 200 universities and research institutions.
Resources
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/pdfs/solu
tions/SHI-CC-brief.pdf
Solution: Via a secure, self-service portal, SHI and their university members can view their IT spending,
generate reports and invoices, set budgets and alerts, and implement spending controls.
Benefit: Cloud Cruiser improves productivity by automating manual data collection, cost mapping, pricing,
and billing. Sophisticated BI analytics, proactive controls, and consumption forecasting enable cost savings.
COGS and P&L capabilities drive greater profitability in SHI’s hosting business.
For More Information:
http://www.cloudcruiser.com/pdfs/solutions/SHI-CC-brief.pdf
Customer Quote: “Cloud Cruiser offered us the flexibility and speed in reporting that we couldn’t find in
any other solution. With Cloud Cruiser, we’re able to collect data from multiple platforms and truly see all
of the cloud costs across all of our cloud offerings - multi-tenant, managed private, and hybrid.”
- Richard Place, Lead Partner for SHI Cloud Services, SHI International
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