What you need to know when going for a hybrid cloud solution

Before going hybrid you needs to fully understand that hybrid doesn’t provide all the cloud benefits available for companies adopting the cloud-first strategy. However, there are still many benefits of going hybrid. It is important for CSPs to understand that hybrid is a “transition to cloud” approach and thus, they can eventually get their business landed in the Cloud!

Here are a few reasons why hybrid fits best for CSP business:

• Easy Disaster Recovery

In modern times, disaster recovery is an important aspect which every business must throw light to. Since Hybrid provides cloud benefits too, organizations can take the advantage of cloud storage that can be beneficial in case of a disaster. The organization’s mission critical applications and sensitive data can be backed up in the cloud and the best part is: you can pay for what you use!

• Flexibility

Hybrid cloud allows for flexibly so your organization can keep what is needed in the on-perm setup and pay for what is needed from the cloud. This transition can also lead up to adopt the cloud-first strategy for your company eventually.

• Innovative solutions

The cloud has provided a huge platform for innovation with security. With hybrid deployments, you can leverage the benefits of cloud innovation. One example is cloud bursting. Companies can run their solutions or apps in their data centers; however, if there is a need for it, they can burst the app into public cloud. Apps that handle non-sensitive information can be used like that.

• Cost–effective management

Going hybrid brings more ease of administration. Not only the tasks are easily managed (while no data centers being monitored at all times), they are also done with a reduced cost.

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Hybrid solutions provide a combination of public and private environments to make the companies get the best of both the worlds. This maximizes productivity of the business and thus gives you all the time you need to get used to the cloud based environment before jumping to the cloud.

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MachPanel Automation module for CSPs

MachPanel is a full-fledge business automation system. The user friendly portal is a must have for every business. MachPanel assists CSPs to manage entire lifecycle of their cloud business. It provides automation for Microsoft O365 & Azure. With MachPanel, you can easily Showcase Bundle & Sell all the integrated offers offered by your cloud business. With this module, you can Go the extra mile with Automation and make O365 Reselling hassle-free.

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Even today, Microsoft CSPs often experience an obstruction in cloud computing services business growth which leads to lesser margins. In order to increase business growth, it is important to highlight the processes that can be automated and are currently being carried out manually. Here, we highlight a few such processes that every Microsoft CSP must know to in order to automate for better business growth.

1. Changing margins due to change in Microsoft’s Prices

Let’s face it. We’ve all been in a situation where we think again on what sales price to quote to the customers for a better profit margin. It is due to the fact that Microsoft frequently changes its Azure and Office 365 cost prices, leaving every Microsoft CSP in confusion. For better revenue it is essential that your account manager is updated with the Microsoft’s latest pricing spreadsheets. Let’s say, a quote for a service can give you better margins in January but not the same good margin the next month! With manual checking, you’d need a huge team to just keep checking for the updates every now and then from Microsoft. The sane solution would be: Go for automation and change quotes accordingly for better profit margins.

2. ERP overload due to manual updation of License Quantities

A manual creation of new sales order each time a customer’s buys something from your business service, the ERP would stay sane for a couple of thousand orders but once your revenue stream goes up, by say 50 thousand USD, the process would become extremely laborious. In order to cater for that, every Microsoft CSP must assess new automation approaches to simplify complex tasks in your cloud computing services.

3. Invoicing your customers (The mess has just begun)

Even today some CSPs are going through manual invoicing, where you add the customers costs. Depending upon your setup, you might have another person handle the suppliers like Microsoft. These are two different jobs but have a huge impact on your business revenue if not done in harmony.

The person handling manual invoices must create invoices based on the billing system and calculate costs. Thu number of updates makes the process more messy depending upon the billing cycle for each customer. At the end, nobody is sure that the final invoice is exactly what it should be, since it is a manual generation.

4. Microsoft Cost Reconciliation and resulting Discrepancies in costs

The manual systems get more complicated when the business has to pay the supplier like Microsoft right away. You might notice after a few cycles that there is no reconciliation between the supplier invoice for a billing cycle and the customers’ payments for the same billing cycle. Since you can’t say no to a supplier (ever), your cloud computing services business suffers because of manual invoicing practice.

5. The struggle to deliver cost-transparency

Customers demand cost-transparency. That is not really possible if the data is managed manually. With a larger customer base, this is practically impossible without an automated approach.

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Fast-track your business with automaton processes with MachPanel

The process you are carrying out in a manual approach, surely hinder your business growth one day as your customer base grows. You should never let these manual processes impair your business productivity. It is therefore important to synchronization and consolidation between business systems and processes. Adopting business process automation services is the key to solve this problem.

MachPanel provides you all the necessary tools and an integrated platform to automate your cloud business through a pool of business process automation services. With integrated invoicing, automated billing and different automation modules for business productivity like Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Skype for Business Server, Microsoft Work Folders, Microsoft Directory Sync, Microsoft Hyper V and Microsoft Dynamics 365, you get the required tools needed for a 365 degree business automating.

The icing on the cake: MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

With this module, you can fully automate and manage entire lifecycle of your Direct and Indirect CSP Business with MachPanel. You own and control the billing, along with the freedom to showcase bundle and sell integrated offers with a hybrid marketplace. The platform provides easy ways to Provision, Manage, support & Bill Microsoft CSP.

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With more innovations in digital technologies, CSPs always are in need for a breakthrough that can provide them with cutting-edge benefits with no compromise on service delivery. To get more value, organizations want more managed services and value-added IP offerings. Microsoft customers rely on Microsoft Partners and CSP organizations for services and expert skills required to accelerate in this era of digital transformation.

Microsoft has announced Azure updates for CSPs including a new commerce experience under the Azure in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. By utilizing the Azure cost management feature, CSPs can unlock more value for customer satisfaction.

• The New Commerce Experience

The new commerce experience announced within Azure updates from Microsoft offer CSP benefits by providing more options to increase customer base and improve the selling experience. There are more tools and resources announced that can bring-in more value to their business. It provides a simplified billing experience where you get access to invoices and reconciliation files, be in control of data usage since “all of the usage is tied back to a single Azure Plan”. In addition to this, the new features include reading invoicing and the relevant reconciliation file and daily usage file. You can even have a detailed analysis on Azure spending with options like receiving alerts for budget set at a customer level and Viewing total spending on an Azure plan in the latest Azure update.

• Universal Catalog

With the new commerce experience, you get access to one universal catalog which helps in better expansion of your portfolio of services. The universal catalog has all the latest Azure services that can bring in innovative Azure features as soon as they are live. This attracts new customers for your business.

• Value-added Services

The new updates let CSPs discover unique VAS opportunities via the Partner earned credit model under Cost Management, that we’ll discuss in a minute. PEC rewards lead towards a sustainable profitability.

• Azure Lighthouse

This is a new tool introduced under the new Azure Updates. It enables Microsoft Partners to provide unique managed services to their customers and enables CSPs to effectively manage multiple customer environments.

• Consistent pricing

In the new Azure Updates, a simplified price list for Azure is introduced consisting of consistent prices worldwide. There’s more transparency     and a unified invoice and billing date alignment for all purchases of customer across the Azure marketplace.

• A simplified Framework

Azure Updates introduce a framework for doing business with CSPs in a simplified manner that deliver better business results for CSPs. the Microsoft Partner Agreement and the Microsoft Customer Agreement are part of this framework.

• Azure Cost Management

Under the Azure Cost Management feature, there are more CSP benefits to offer from Microsoft CSP program. CSPs can get a detailed cost analysis option by customer, meter, service, resource group, subscription, resource and many other dimensions. You can setup notifications by utilizing programmatic budgets to stay notified whenever costs exceed budgets. In the new Azure Updates, you can also view resources costs having Partner Earned Credit (PEC) under the Cost analysis. Customers also get the option to view their consumption costs data under pay-as-you-go rates. With Azure Cost management, you can maximize cloud efficiency for the customers and manage the customer’s costs effectively from the cloud.  Under cost management, you can get your hands on various tools to monitor cloud costs, allocate then optimize cloud costs with rich analytics.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

In this era of digital transformation, a complete service delivery platform is the need of today for a successful business transformation. MachPanel is a complete Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) that empowers CSPs to get more with less. MachPanel provides CSP benefits to organizations in order to fulfill all requirements and stay up-to-date in this fast paced cloud journey. With a Hybrid Cloud-based Marketplace and WHMCS & SpamExperts on board, MachPanel has all it takes for a successful CSP business.

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There are many Microsoft 365 features that help to reduce complexity from cloud solutions. Simplifying cloud complexities is a challenge in today’s business space. For this, there are various ways like the deployment of Infrastructure-as-a-service to make things lesser complex. Deploying Cloud solutions and Tools within your business, gives you efficiency and good results. In this way, CSPs and cloud customers  are able to get maximum benefits of cloud with the existing tools at hand. Choosing form a variety of such solutions available is a difficult choice. Hence, Microsoft has put forth various solutions out of which, Microsoft 365 is a promising one. In the following text, we highlight how complexities can be reduced by implementing Microsoft 365 features in your business.

1. Cloud-connect everything you have

If the approach of Cloud-connect is adopted earlier, there are chances your business would stay ahead of the curve in future. This approach makes tasks easier. This process starts with linking the current on-premises infrastructure to Active Directory with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This brings security and better mobility to the enterprise’s identity. We showed you how Azure Migrations are simple with 4 steps earlier. If you use cloud-connect ConfigMgr with Intune, you even get access to features such as remote wipe and conditional access. In this way, there is more security to your systems at the same time you can work from anywhere.

1. Gain control and clear visibility

Microsoft 365 admin center is one for the best Microsoft 365 features introduced to date. There is a lot more to offer in the admin center apart from simplicity, compliance, device management and specialist work-spaces. Enabling Conditional access makes the users able to better understand the way device gain access to corporate data. The process of configuration is also not complicated. Hence it reduces complexity to a huge extent.

1. Implement Modern desktop apps

Modern desktops offer Desktop Analytics in a much sophisticated manner than ever before. This very promising if you wish to simplify IT with Microsoft 365 features. It is a powerful tool that provides insights needed to deploy and manage service apps. It also makes IT teams’ work easier by eliminating several days’ work which is done by a few clicks.

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How MachPanel helps you to simplify IT with Microsoft 365 features

There’s nothing better than an Infrastructure providing service that simplifies complexity and give you as best service as it were your own. And MachPanel is exactly that, not really, it’s much more than that! MachPanel is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) that is trusted globally by best Service providers in the market. It simplifies your cloud solutions and automates your business by offering a complete CSP Automation platform, the prime offerings being Microsoft Office 365 & Azure.

Once you get your hands on MachPanel, it’s your time to simplify IT with Microsoft 365 features. If you still haven’t got MachPanel for business automation, what are you waiting for?

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