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The entire concept was initially introduced for Azure as a hassle-free journey for both partner and customer. This time it is being introduced for subscriptions like Office 365, Dynamics 365, Windows 365, Microsoft 365.

What impact will it have on business?

For indirect sellers, the cloud business will have the option to opt for NCE from Jan 2022 which will eventually be enforced by Microsoft in March 2022. 

For The new subscriptions to be circulated and adopted, Partners need to make sure if the customer is prepared to fully commit to the entire terms of subscription. The cancellation policy states that the grace period is 72 hours. 

For Partners who are looking to explore the possibilities of the new Commerce experience, they do not have to re-sign the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA).

Manage your subscription billing with MachPanel

MachPanel streamlines the financial aspects of your business and lets you have more control over them.  With such a dashboard, you can focus more on business growth. And when it comes to calculations, you can leave that to MachPanel. With just a few clicks, your billing and reporting tasks are all done! With MachPanel, you can gain profits beyond your imagination.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel’s Microsoft CSP module lets you fully automate your Cloud Solution Provider services. Take the opportunity to Upgrade your business and take it to a whole new level with modern automation. With automated systems, you can do more with less and create new revenue streams for your business. A user-friendly and intuitive dashboard is all you need for easy billing, recurring subscriptions, streamlined reporting and cost estimations.

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Cloud computing in the real world

Cloud computing has emerged as a major tool for everyday life activities like Banking applications, Healthcare systems, Ecommerce, Email, media streaming and much more. This has opened up new business marketing ways.  SaaS has emerged as an effective model for Software service delivery. Similar is the case with IaaS, where managed infrastructure services are provided. The third model for cloud computing is PaaS (Platform as a service). In a nutshell, the cloud is all about how to take control of the core business and free yourself from the technological complexities.

Examples of multi-cloud applications

• Cloud storage

The amount of Cloud providers is increasing each day. Many cloud providers are now offering data storage on the cloud. The customers can access their data whenever they require. These files can be accessed on any device. Such applications are in-demand since more and more companies are moving to the cloud.

• Marketing platforms

There are various digital marketing platforms for customers to manage marketing plans and target leads. For digital market experts, the cloud fulfills the need for personalization. Cloud platforms offer a hybrid marketplace to showcase products.

• Education applications

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a need for distance learning. This led to a high demand in cloud-based educational applications. Various platforms emerged with basic modules like presentations, file submission, and automated tools for educationists, administrators, and students. 

• Healthcare applications

Many companies Applications that provide healthcare services are now moving to the cloud because of the many benefits it provides. Cloud servers store patient information and bridge the gap between patients and health providers. There are telehealth applications for maximum convenience. 

Real-world Multi-cloud challenges

• Application workloads

Since cloud applications are now delivering services that are crucial to everyday life, keeping the workloads managed is a challenge. The applications have to be kept up and running at all times and there is no room for server failover. In such cases, a multi-cloud environment handles server management easily.

• Cloud migration challenges

Once a company makes the move to the cloud, a major challenge arises which is the migration challenge. Moving the entire company and data to the cloud is another factor to consider.

• Cloud security challenges

Cloud applications have to be secured with top-notch security methods. IT is the ultimate responsibility of the company.

• Cloud risk management

When moving to the cloud, there is a risk of managing a multi-cloud or hybrid environment. 

ALSO READ: HOW MACHPANEL CATERS TO MODERN CLOUD BUSINESS CHALLENGES

MachPanel – Multi-Cloud Service Delivery Platform

MachPanel allows Telco’s and Providers to sell multi-cloud services with various automation solutions like MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP, Remote Desktop Services, Web hosting solutions and much more.

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What is cloud automation and why should you bother?

Ever since the world adopted cloud computing technology, its future has been unpredictable. In the initial days, making the shift to the cloud was a big game-changer in the business and market. However, now it has become the need of business and every business relies on this technology for data and cloud. 

So where does the automation fit in?

Deploying and operating enterprise workloads is time consuming. There have been a lot of repetitive and laborious processes like redundant billing procedures, understanding cloud budgets was a painstaking task and many others. With cloud automation all of this is streamlined using Cloud automation tools. The laborious processes are automated and the ultimate goal with cloud automation is to reduce manual efforts.

With cloud automation, one major component that has been improved is security. Cloud automation also caters to the scalability needs of companies opting DevOps. In general, there are 3 types: private cloud automation, hybrid cloud automation, and multi-cloud automation.

What are a few use cases where cloud automation can be applied to?

• Infrastructure provisioning

Configure multiple virtual servers is a time consuming task. With cloud automation tools, such tasks are automated where a template is defined based on how an individual virtual server needs to be configured. Other cloud resources like network setups, storage buckets etc. can be configured using cloud automation tools based on your provider. Such type of provisioning is known as infrastructure as a Code or IaC tool.

• Application deployment

Another key use case is Application deployment. Developers often face difficulties in releasing apps to production environments and testing if everything works fine as it had been in the development environment. Cloud automation tools support continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms for easy deployment.

• Data classification

Another use case that will be very well applicable in near future is Data classification and discovery. Cloud automation tools are capable of automatically scanning cloud environments for sensitive data. Such a task, if done by hand, would be extremely laborious. Deploying the right tools also makes enterprises meet compliance goals.

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Cloud Automation Vs Orchestration

Cloud automation and orchestration both are closely related to automation in general. However, the key difference is that Cloud automation mostly revolves around automation of individual processes whereas cloud orchestration automates entire cloud computing workflows.

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel offers cloud orchestration and lets you focus on provision with its easy to use management platform. With MachPanel, Providers can easily fulfil their CSP complaint requirements and manage entire life cycles with just a few clicks. Whether you are a Direct or Indirect CSP, your wish to become one, MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSP has got you covered.

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How the multi-cloud approach benefits Communications Service Providers

In the modern cloud space, multi-cloud has become a norm really quickly. When talking about role of cloud computing in telecom industry, multi-cloud approach comes in the first-line. Even though the nature of multi-cloud approach looked complex in terms of management and adoption at first, there have been solutions designed in the market to overcome the challenges of a multi-cloud environment. This makes CSPs take benefit from two or more cloud providers and stay in control of their environment.

With a dynamic and up-to-date catalog, Providers can stay ahead of the curve and are be able to limit consumptions resulting in adopting a cost-effective approach.  The multi-cloud environment itself is a Cost transparent and highly visible environment.

Major benefits of public cloud to Communications Service Providers

Using a single public cloud is no different. CSPs are always in search for best cloud services.  Multi-cloud approach is just one step ahead of single public cloud approach. What are the major benefits to Communication providers that they can get form public clouds? Let’s have a look

• Best-in-line automation

Automation is the main derivative of public clouds (or clouds in general). This is the top attribute that the modern Communications Service Providers look for in the next-Gen network applications.

• Scale on-demand

Whether the business is a startup or established enterprise, scalability, especially, on-demand scalability is always a necessity. Public clouds provide that level of scalability that is required to optimize networks for real time reporting.

• Reduced TCOs

Business flourish when they end up saving bucks after investing in any cloud-based plan. Public clouds provide better savings and thus reduced TCOs.

• Reduced Time to market

Core operations like Service design, testing and deployment, are all automated and done with an agile approach, hence reducing the time to market for CSP business.

• Leave it to the experts

And the best part is, there is a complete panel of experts to guide on unfamiliar components, technologies even languages and the overall culture of cloud networking.

ALSO READ: Process to automate for better Microsoft CSP Productivity

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

Managing lifecycle of Direct and Indirect CSP Business becomes easier with MachPanel. The robust and all-in-one CSP solution provides all it needs to automate CSP business with maximized profit margins resulting in a higher revenue stream. MachPanel offers complete control over billing and subscriptions with shorter time to market while CSPs leverage the benefit of Hybrid market where they can showcase bundle and sell integrated offers in a customized manner. All financial aspects of the business and reporting are automated. The platform provides the ability of direct billing to customers with unified & consolidated invoices for Microsoft Business 365, Azure CSP Billing.

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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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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.

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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.

ALSO READ: New Microsoft Partner Agreement for CSP partners

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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The roadmap to Digital transformation

Digital transformation is the thing of today.  The businesses that are “born-in-the-cloud” are in need of unified approaches that are only possible with Tech Giants working and collaboration together for better customer experiences. With business processes and cultures being evolved in new ways, the need of digital transformation exists to the core in today’s business space. Cloud migration, being a vital aspect in cloud businesses, is evolving in new ways.

Reduced Complexities, minimized costs

With SAP-Microsoft Partnership, there are new agreements and programs coming up on the face of the earth out of which the “cloud migration strategy to SAP S/4HANA on Azure” holds great importance. With this, customers get to experience reduced costs and complexities and stay in control of the top-notch technologies. This provides the customers with the best of both the worlds for the betterment of their cloud business.

The Embrace Program

Back in May, 2019, Microsoft officials announced the details about project “Embrace”. It’s a fine combination of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud along with global strategic service partners (GSSPs) where the focus is to provide an integrated SAP Cloud Platform enabling orchestration and third-party applications running in the cloud systems or on-premise systems. It might sound complex, but in fact it has reduced complexities in practicality to a lot.

ALSO READ: New Microsoft Partner Agreement for CSPs

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel provides full automation and management of cloud business lifecycle making provision and management of cloud services easier for CSPs and making their life easier to the core. With MachPanel cloud migration are smooth and all business processes are streamlined, thanks to expert support and professional advices from the Team behind MachPanel. There are many features beneficial to CSPs like Tenant Provisioning and Management, Extensive Reporting, CSP Sync, Packaging and Bundling with customized Margins and much more.

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Microsoft has proposed the agreement based on a few valid reasons like simplifying the contracting procedure, clarifying and distinguishing roles and responsibilities in reference to regulatory requirements and to ensure there’s transparency for Microsoft and Microsoft partner network.

The new Agreement

In the latest Microsoft partner agreement, Microsoft replaces all previous Microsoft Agreements for Indirect Resellers and Indirect provider like the Microsoft Cloud Distributor Agreement (MCDA), the Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement Multi-Tier Amendment, Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement (MCRA), and the Microsoft Cloud Reseller Agreement for US Government Cloud. It also replaces Terms and Conditions Agreement.

The Microsoft partner agreement has a multiple business Microsoft CSP benefits to Partners like:

• Improved transparency that leads to Protection of long-term growth and a smooth business sail for Microsoft partner network.
• Easier adherence to solid business practices and privacy regulations
• Better understanding of roles and responsibilities for a continuous service delivery
• Establishment of trust due to adherence and strong business channel with sound business practices in Microsoft partner network.
• Providing administration access to third-party technical and customer service providers with full confidence.

What Partners need to do?

For organizations already under a CSP Program who are direct bill, indirect providers or indirect resellers, they need to sign up the latest MPA before the deadline approaches. The newer MPA addresses legal concerns in a better manner. Accepting the new Microsoft partner agreement allows for smooth transactions through Partner Center API or User Interface (aka Partner Center Dashboard). Failure to accept the MPA will lead to your organization not being able to add new subscriptions or add seats to existing subscriptions under the CSP Program and the Microsoft partner network. However, the organization will still be able to administer existing subscribers and users. The final deadline to accept the MPA and stay within the CSP Program is Aug. 31, 2020.

MachSol is providing guidance to CSPs including indirect resellers, indirect providers and Direct billing CSPs to adhere to the latest Partner agreement proposed by Microsoft for a smooth and streamlined Cloud Provision and administration experience.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel supports full-fledge automation and management of CSP business for Direct and Indirect CSPs.  The robust platform includes end-to-end business management where you can showcase, bundle and sell integrated offers and services through white labeled customized storefront, offer Microsoft O365 & Azure services and Control Billing and reporting with just a few clicks. A Detailed dashboard is there to display Analytics, BI dashboard and streamline Recurring Billing with Payment Processing.

Get on board with MachPanel to cater for all your CSP requirements regarding the new MPA and stay right on track with the latest CSP requirements.

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