MachPanel is a robust platform that favors cloud providers and makes them do more with less. With MachPanel, Resellers can boost up their business profit and increase their revenue stream like they wish. Following are three ways how MachPanel can boost business profits and reduce overall business costs.

Utilize tailored approach

MachPanel experts make sure that each reseller is dealt in a unique and special manner. That is why, MachPanel offer services according to your business type. Nevertheless, the road to success doesn’t only require implementing cutting edge technology to your business environment, but also to implement that in the most efficient manner to stay ahead of the curve. MachPanel provides that efficiency and so you can utilize MachPanel’s offerings according to your business niche to increase business profits.

Powerful integrated tools

MachPanel is equipped with best in line integrated tools for cloud computing that foster cloud provider’s business ideas and turn them into reality. With a wide variety of integrated tools like invoicing and billing, Power BI, hybrid marketplace, MachPanel makes it easier for cloud providers and resellers to resell their offerings. There are multiple Automation modules offered at MachPanel like Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint, Automation module for Microsoft Exchange, Automation module for Mycroft Skype for Business, Automation module for Microsoft Hyper V, Automation module for Microsoft Dynamics,  Automation for Work Folders,  Multi-Tenant Remote Desktop Services and many others that help Cloud provider with the tools and modules they need for better productivity of their cloud business.

24/7 technical support

MachPanel experts are there to provide you 24/7 technical support. With a huge number of Customer Representatives on board, you can always rely on your customer’s technical problems being solved from MachPanel experts. This way, your customer base increases and so does your revenue stream.

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MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSP

With MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSP, you get all the tools needed to fully automate your cloud business. With this module, you can easily manage the entire lifecycle of your Direct and Indirect CSP Business. You can showcase, bundle and sell integrated offers and services under the white-lablelled customized storefront. There is complete business automation of Microsoft O365 & Azure.  Recurring subscriptions and easy billing make MachPanel the favorite cloud business automation platform of Cloud Providers.

Get on board with MachPanel and discover the full potential of your cloud business.

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Digital Ecosystems rapidly became a multi-billion dollar industry. Last year Hyperscalers invested over $120 billion in Digital Ecosystem platforms. Disruptive innovations provide simpler or more elegant solutions to existing problems, enabled by new technology and often at a lower cost. Many businesses recognizes the limitations of their existing platform while exploring opportunities that tap into emerging technologies and new delivery models who will have the best chance of thriving in the fast-approaching disruptive future. Collaborative Ecosystems should exponentially elevate the value it creates and deliver. They will revolutionize business for some time to come.

Hyperscalers

Hyperscalers such as Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and others are gearing up for battle. Misleading information is convincing businesses to migrate to these platforms without understanding the long-term impact and liabilities. Moreover, entire industries are making decisions based on studies and reports, influenced by the very same Hyperscalers. Many businesses think if they do not keep up they will eventually fail.

Client Operating System

Dominating Digital Ecosystems will require an even more dominating end-user Operating System. The end game is controlling the entire value chain in addition to recurrent subscription lock-in, and preventing you the customer from ever migrating. In other words, easy to get in but difficult to get out.

Enterprise Migration

It should not be a surprise that medium to large size Enterprises are having great difficulties adapting to Digital Ecosystems. Migration could be risky, complicated and expensive or just simply impossible. There are no standards or unification between competitive Digital Ecosystem platforms. Migrating from a Digital Ecosystem might not be possible without starting over again and paying a hefty fine.

Channel Partners

I have witnessed the destruction of privacy and the disruptive (dead-end) transition of the hosting industry. Next in line are Channel Partners, ISV’s and OEM’s. Overall, I am unpleasantly surprised businesses and governments ignore the risks by surrendering sensitive data to these Hyperscalers. It is time for new legislation to reveal the true intentions of those trying to dominate our digital world. If you think they are on your side think again!

Too Big to Fail

Eventually Hyperscalers will become too big to fail. If governments fail to regulate them, it will expose us to a global economic and systemic meltdown.

What led to today’s success will ultimately lead to tomorrow’s failure

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Cloud Providers take benefits from Microsoft directly and resell their services from Office 365 and Azure. Both these products offer a lot more services that CSPs perceive at the time of subscription. Given below are a few distinct ways to use these products and benefit your business.

1. Secure Remote Access to Network

Azure’s Active Directory has benefitted millions off business users. Employees that work away from their desk, get access control of the whole portfolio, SQL databases, basic cloud and storage space. Different devices can access resources remotely

1. Connect Globally

Azure AD is already integrated with a lot of third party SaaS applications like Salesforce, Google Apps, Dropbox, Office 365 etc. Even custom applications can be added for business use if it is not already integrated with AD.

1. Seamless Migrations

Business fear to move to cloud only because of many obstacles in the process of migration. Not only there is a chance of data loss, there is a lot of complexity in the process as well. Azure AD e 365 offers seamless integration over to the cloud. Apart from that, Microsoft and CSPs also provide on-site customer support for better and smoother migrations and to tackle any run-time issues.

1. Expert Support

Cloud Providers provide excellent customer support. If there are any technical issues at CSPs’ end, they also tackle those in no time. The technical support is present there 24/7.

1. OneDrive Storage

OneDrive offers collaborative document sharing between colleagues and employees and also makes management of digital assets possible. While businesses grow, the storage needs also grow with it. OneDrive offers a scalable solution so that your Storage needs are always fulfilled along with business growth.

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MachPanel: Providing Maximum Business Benefits to CSPs

MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform for Resellers and Providers. It provides you with Microsoft Office 365 and Azure services for better profits and flexible margins.  MachPanel offers easy billing and reporting, a Hybrid Marketplace and integration of Salesforce flow for its resellers. It also provides hassle-free migrations and integration of third party apps. It also offers consolidated Management of Microsoft Office 365 along with On-premise Hosted Subscriptions.

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP makes you able to take maximum benefits of O365 and Azure.

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The two tiers

Microsoft has introduced its reselling into two tier models. In Tier 1 model, you partner directly with Microsoft to gain access to its products and services and resell them to your clients, like resell Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Packages. In case of Tier2, the services and products of Microsoft are distributed by whole sellers and Distributors and through other sellers. These distributors are Partners with Microsoft and also work as a middle man. They deal with Microsoft at one end and give their services like Microsoft Office 365 and Azure to thousands of 2 – tier resellers at other end. There are a limited number of authorized distributors by Microsoft around the world. The tier 1 sellers however get a chance to be engaged with their customers at a deeper level and make more profit out of it. Not only you will be able to add value to customer’s customized solutions, you will also be able to provide managed services upon customer’s demand.

Challenges in reselling Microsoft Azure and Office 365

Tier 1 CSP Partners have to take care of a number of challenges and certain requirements. All of them revolve around the increasing business demands of today by consumers. Some of the basic challenges are:

1. The availability of salesforce flow in the cloud where user centric business processes are deployed without any development to increase agility
2. A proper integration with Storefront where consumers would showcase their brands and other products. AI based suggestions customized for each customer is the next trend in the cloud marketplace as provided in Microsoft Azure.
3. Increasing E-commerce requirements where there is a need to provide Predictive Intelligence and a personalized shopping experience as per the growing demand from consumers.
4. A seamless support system on which consumers can rely on is a basic requirement of every tier 1 CSP.
5. A decent customer management system is necessary to take care of the Operation Management Suite (OMS) requirements for hybrid cloud.
6. An all-in-one Billing system and invoicing management system is necessary to make managing of recurring billing and subscriptions seamless as handled in Office 365 Packages.
7. Reports and Analytics are an integral part of any CSP. A reliable system that caters this requirement and provides easy method to create on demand Reports with just a few clicks is a basic requirement.
8. Many a times, Third Parties have to integrate their modules into the system. So a reliable API integration method needs to exist which can take care of the third party tools and plugins in order to work seamlessly with in-house systems.

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To all these major challenges, MachPanel offers a complete solution. Not only there is a built-in Marketplace to showcase the products, there is a robust reporting and Analytics system that has been developed keeping the current needs of reporting in mind. Billing and invoices are managed with its automatic subscription and recurring billing options. All this is present in one neat interface where there is less hassle and with just a few simple steps it makes the challenge of selling seats quite easy along with running a smooth automated system as a CSP tier 1 partner.

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Communication has been started with the client to narrow down and rectify the issue. Upon analysis it has been discovered that tenant of their hosted platform is trying to federate and communicate with a company using office 365 Skype for business online services.

So we started our troubleshooting SOP, verified following at Hosted Side:

1. SRV record (Tenant domain) require for federation is in Place | Yes
2. Skype for Business Server is allowing External communication | Yes
3. Domain to federate with, is listed in Allowed SIP federated Domains, as in this case they are trying to federate with domain on Skype for Business Online, so SIP federated Partners Tab has been verified and found that LyncOnline as CSHostingProvider is enabled.

All good at Hoster side.

Next step was to verify setting on Skype for business Online side, and as it was not in our control, so client was requested to follow Office365 documentation and make sure all the setting required for setting federation is in Place. Which are:

1. SRV record require for federation is in Place | Yes (nslookup -q=SRV _sipfederationtls._tcp.yourdomain.com)
2. Lync Online federation is enabled in External Communication tab.
3. Time to get operational, as Microsoft says that it may take some time like 12 plus hours.

We were expecting that the issue will be resolved if they make sure Skype for business online side configuration, but after a couple of days, they came back with update : Issue still exists.

Hmm, so now we have to look further and see what’s going wrong:

1. Tested Federation will remote domain not on Office 365 and that work like a charm which make it clear that something fishy only with Skype for business Online tenant domains.
2. Verified everything at Lync Online side our self and found that settings are in place as expected.

Detailed troubleshooting reveals that Office365 Lync Online is looking for tenant domain name in a Certificate assign to Access Edge Services of Skype for business Edge Servers as Access Edge FQDN, which is not the case in Hosted platforms, as they have SAN Cert with provider domain based names only, to avoid additional cost and configuration per tenant domain. Currently it seems to be a limitation for hosting providers tenants to federate with Skype for business Online tenants domain or have to add the tenant domain names (who want this feature) in SAN cert of Skype for business Edge Servers deployment.

If you have encounter similar situation or you have some further details or insights on this particular limitation or issue, always drop me your valuable feedback / comments at qaiser.khan@machsol.com

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