As early adopters of cloud based software development and delivery methods have realized, SaaS monetization is not easy. In order to be successful, service providers must be able to effectively package, provision, control, track, and manage a dynamic service catalog, not only to ensure fair compensation but to also ensure maximum market applicability and a positive customer experience.
A complete software monetization solution for cloud-based service delivery must:
- Enable sophisticated service catalog definition
- Provide automated service agreement provisioning
- Support feature-level user authorization
- Allow service catalog and pricing model reconfiguration without re-engineering
- Offer detailed service usage tracking and reporting
- Integrate easily and seamlessly with the service providers various back office systems, enabling process automation
- Support software delivery and management scenarios, offering software publishers a means to centrally manage all cloud services and traditional on-premise applications