Cloud based software services have been cohesively integrated into major aspects of business and almost all aspects of professional life. Many companies and business tend to make cloud their top priority despite the choice of distributed computing for the manipulation of data keeping security as the most important aspect. It is necessary that the workforce shall now be trained so as to be beneficial alongside automation in future. This gives rise to the concept of Intelligent Cloud Automation. Where the services offered by cloud are made intelligent enough to compete for future tasks and cater the needs of the future in cloud industry.

Intelligent Automation for Cloud

The concept of Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) has been little-known. Mostly CSPs are interested in developing and enhancing their services with upcoming needs of businesses. Cloud Providers seldom are concerned of the scalability of Cloud itself.  IAC is a cloud management platform that is especially designed for enterprise level companies and major public sector Information Technology Organizations that build and develop public clouds and hybrid clouds. The idea is to provide out-of-the-box capabilities to cloud vendors who further extend those capabilities to CSPs in order to meet the growing needs of businesses. In this way, CSPs are able to deploy their services that are not limited to basic IaaS.

Few of such functionalizes that are expected to enhance in future are:

1. Integrated Network Services Automation

It is highly effective in providing seamless management of virtual infrastructure and physical infrastructure as well. The resources of computing, storage and the network in the cloud are optimized so as to provide customers with better operational efficiency by combining built-in Infrastructure and third party infrastructure in their hybrid or private cloud deployment.

1. Application Stack Deployment

Application Stack Accelerator is a highly usable extension to the current IAC services. Using Application stack Deployment, blueprints of applications can be designed and delivered in an efficient manner that increase faster app deployment in the cloud. Using the blueprints, designs of the complete application can be ordered using a self-service portal.

1. Easy Addition of Cloud Accelerators

A major trend in data-centric approach is the scalability of cloud coverage. Using IAC, organizations can get services beyond IaaS, making them capable to achieve much more by delivering the services right when they are needed.

1. Financial and Portfolio Management

With this, the management of automated financial and the basic portfolio can be extended to multiple cloud environments. Using this, budgetary limits and pricing boundaries can be set beforehand, in order to avoid unexpected bills.

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MachPanel – the next stop in Intelligent Cloud Automation

MachPanel provides end-to-end business automation with its efficient hosting Control Panel capabilities. MachPanel provides SaaS and IaaS Orchestration. With MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP, CSPs can ability automate and scale their Microsoft Cloud business. It is an excellent choice for multi-tiered services as it manages entire lifecycle of your business efficiently.  It offers an on-premise Hybrid Marketplace that caters the need of Intelligent Service delivery based on customer’s past choices. It enables the customers to perform third-party integrations quite smoothly. MachPanel is the best choice for CSPs today, in order to grow business for tomorrow.

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The two plans

In general, there are two types of plans in order to facilitate the CSPs to meet their customers’ support needs.

1. Microsoft Advanced Support for Partners
2. Microsoft Premier Support for Partners

In the case of Microsoft Advanced Support for Partners, Microsoft provides support for fixing issues, resolving problems. In case of Microsoft Premier Support for Partners, Microsoft provides you with an ability to identify new areas of growth in the existing cloud-enabled services. In this way, new areas of revenue can be opened up in your business.

Keeping “billing” in the limelight

In order to be successful, CSPs need to focus on four major points: Support, service based model, scalability and billing. Out of these four, billing is the most important aspect of a successful CSP Tier 1 partner. CSPs need to directly monitor and provision the subscriptions and manage the customer’s queries related to billing and management. To be a winner in this era, it is important to focus on Direct Billing methods and increase profitability. The billing module must have recurring billing options with proper payment processing.

In order to stay on track on as a Microsoft Tier 1 CSP, you need to show two main key capabilities. First, either you need to provide your customers with an IP service, a solution application or provide a managed service. And secondly, you need to be equipped with a decent infrastructure and enable billing within your systems. In case, either of these capabilities is not fulfilled, the CSPs can continue to provide services as indirect providers.

MachPanel: Keeping you on the CSP track

If you are still wondering where to start from, MachPanel can help you with it. It provides a platform that empowers Microsoft CSPs through end-to-end business management. MachPanel gives you an option to own and control your billing. With an ability of Direct Billing, it automates all major aspects related to business financial operations. It manages unified and consolidated invoices that help simplify the billing processes. This is available for Microsoft Office365 and Azure CSP Billing structures.

MachPanel also offers you the option of recurring billing and automatic subscriptions so that consumers do not have to go for subscriptions every month.  Apart from that, it also enables you to showcase your products in a customized storefront, gives an option of extensive reporting with a few clicks, gives a complete bird’s eye view of the usage calculations and much more. Through the bill and support system, along with complete business automation solutions, the success of your business is accelerated. MachPanel is a reliable partner that provides Profit management for Microsoft Distributors.

MachPanel the Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) is an ideal solution that fits for your need, supporting feature that no one else can provide.

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