EuroCloud “wholesale marketplace” for Cloud Services – EuroCloud Slovenia Pilot
Zero-risk and zero-investment acceleration of cloud service adoption
- Dalibor Baskovc – EuroCloud Slovenia
Service Provider On-boarding to Wholesale Marketplace
• Stage 1 - Publishing:– Service provider submits its application – with all necessary details - to
marketplace authority (Eurocloud)– Authority can reject the application, requests additional details or approve
application– Approved applications are published to marketplace portal and are
available for discovery• Stage 2 – Discovery and integration:
– An intermediary discovers the service on wholesale markplace and makes an agreement with the provider.
– First-time integration on service provider or intermediary side:• Service provider / intermediary implements integration connector (for ordering,
billing and incident management) according to common technical specification.– Subsequent integration on service provider or intermediary side:
• Service provider / intermediary adds new partner parameters to configuration of the existing integration connector and thus enables integration with new partner.
Sales and order handling process
• Intermediary, who is working with end-customers, makes an agreement with end-customer for provision of selected services.
• Intermediary issues service orders (for services connected through wholesale marketplace).
• Service orders are received, processed and confirmed by respective service providers.
• Intermediary communicates with end-users to help them start using new services.
Billing process• Service providers prepares a billing report for each connected
intermediary – who is selling their services – at the end of the month.• Billing report is delivered – in standard format – to each connected
intermediary. A corresponding consolidate invoice (for all services consumed by intermediary’s customers) is also prepared by the service provicer and delivered to the intermediary.
• Intermediary can use the billing report for invoice calculation, cross-check control or both.
• Intermediary issues invoices to its customers and collects payments.• Intermediary makes payment to the service provider (single
transaction).
Orodja za integracijo*• Sporočila
– Izmenjava prek sporočilnih vrst (AWS Simple Queue Service)
• Dokumenti– Izmenjava prek odložišča (AWS Simple Storage Service)
* Naročanje in obračunavanje
Naročanje – koreografija procesa• Postopek predvideva obdelavo naročila v dveh logičnih korakih.
– oddaja – prevzem – potrditev– obdelava – potrditev
• Partner ima polno avtonomijo pri implementaciji postopka obdelave naročil.– npr. obdelava se lahko izvede v enem
(podaljšanem) koraku, ki producira dve ločeni sporočili o potrditvah.
Obračunavanje - proces