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Fluentscale fluentBilling for VMware
The Solution
fluentBilling combines and aggregates dynamically collected or static billing data from the utilized platforms and services with the desired product structure and customer-specific price lists.
fluentBilling supports Committed (fixed) fee and Pay-as-you-go billing models and virtually any combination of these.
fluentBilling supports customer specific price lists, validity periods and scheduled campaign pricing.
fluentBilling provides an easy-to-use REST API interface for compiling and retrieving aggregated billing data.
fluentBilling is easy-to-integrate into a variety of external billing systems and supports also report generation in different formats (Excel/CSV, PDF, XML/JSON, …).
fluentBilling does not itself create the actual invoices, but provides all required billing data aggregated at the desired level.
fluentBilling provides a versatile user interface to manage the product structure and price lists
End customer tooling is available as a separate product, with Fluentscale Service Delivery Platform fluentCMP and fluentShield modules.
Supported Billing Models
Committed
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Fixed Daily/Monthly fee for committed capacity
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Usually used for longer contract periods
Pay As You Go
Hourly/Daily/Monthly calculation
Usually no or lower discounts to customer
Usually more expensive than committed
Combination of Committed and Pay As You Go
Fixed Hourly / Daily/Monthly for committed capacity and if capacity exceeds committed capacity,
overcommit will be billed at hourly/daily/monthly basis
Overcommitted capacity is usually more expensive to customer
Overcommitted capacity will be reported as additional lines in billing report
fluentBilling components - High level
Billing Engine
Core component to generate actual billing data
Contains Admin GUI to make configurations
Provides REST API
Multisite billing supported
Billing data collectors
Reads data from data sources and writes it to Billing engine
Usually scheduled
Ability to monitor also message queues, if available
Requires additional projected consultancy
Tenant GUI (optional add-on extension)
Tenant level billing GUI
Not included in base Billing Engine
fluentOrchestrator
Enables effortless and open service automation and manageable and test-driven orchestration and automation
fluentBilling Components - Advanced
Billing aggregation Layer
Reduces billing engine workload
Vertically scalable layer
Core functions: Cache and aggregate billing data, HA multisite billing
Custom Billing data collection
Custom made solution to gather data e.g. integrated from several sources
Note! Fluentscale consulting required for this model
About fluentBilling architecture
fluentBilling is microservice based and runs in containers
fluentBilling is horizontally scalable
fluentBilling is lightweight
fluentBilling is open with a documented API
fluentBilling for VMware Pricing
Always per service provider business ID.
Supports: VMware vCloud Director and vCenter.
Available also for modern backup solutions like Cohesity, Rubrik and Veeam.
Pricing per fluentBilling instance is based on the number of collected billing results per month
(product atoms x number of products per month).
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