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A Complete E2E Metered Billing for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Cloud Assert Billing for Azure Stack Hub enables billing and chargeback within Azure Stack portal. It allows you as an administrator to track the resource consumption across Azure Stack and custom services, compare usage vs quota, configure pricing for Azure Stack resources based on usage meters, integrate with external billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real-time usages.

Cloud Assert is the only provider of Billing and Commerce platform for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub that has native integration inside Azure Stack Portal UI and Azure Resource Manager API as a Resource Provider. It allows Enterprises, Service Providers, Re-sellers and End Users to view, track and manage their resource consumption and billing from the same single portal with one-pane glass experience.


Cloud Assert Usage and Billing platform is a matured, battle proven solution with many flexible options to customize and suite diverse marketing and sales needs. It provides you the quickest way to offer rich billing solution on top of the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub portal for all your Charge-back, Show-back, Billing and Reporting needs.

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Administrator Portal

Usage and Billing solution enables you as a service administrator to define multiple pricing models within Azure Stack Hub for all the available services, resource meters, plans and offers.

  • Set different Pricing Profiles for all the Azure Stack Hub Meters
  • Visibility across Resource Usages and its Costs per subscription
  • Run Promotional Credits in a percentage or a monetary value
  • Extensibility and Flexibility to charge customers based on their specifc needs
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Customer/ Tenant Portal

Just like Azure public cloud, Tenants can get to see their ongoing usages, pricing and billing information including invoices right within their Azure Stack customer portal at a quick glance.

  • Ability to see their ongoing usages and its associated costs
  • Automatic invoice generation at the end of the billing cycle
  • Pay your bills within the Azure Stack Hub portal
  • Native billing experience just like Azure
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Essential Features of the Billing Solution

Custom Pricing Profiles

  • Ability to configure different pricing for the usage meters emitted by the Azure Stack services
  • Bill-back customers in the following models: Fixed Fee, Pay-as-you-go and Combinations of both models with compatible rates

Offer Promotional Credits

  • Run various types of promotional credits to your customers like One-time, Recurring, Individual User Credits, etc., for increasing their life time value and stickiness
  • Credits can be given in a percentage or a monetary value to customers

Usage Histories & Invoices

  • Ability for the admin and tenant to see the historic and current month usage details and its associated costs
  • Cost comparison with previous months and provide cost trend analysis report along with the Invoices

Custom Collector

  • It is a wonderful mechanism that augments collecting more usage data that are not available in the usage collection mechanism of Azure Stack Hub provided by Microsoft
  • On top of this you can bill your customers based on their specific billing needs

Quota vs Usage Consumption

  • A quick comparison view of the allocated Azure Stack Quota vs Usage Consumption for all the registered Tenant users
  • Powerful trend chart view across the consumed Azure Stack resources and the monthly summary report can be downloaded as a CSV file

CSP Reseller Billing

  • Profit visibility for selling license, usage and service based subscriptions
  • System generated invoices supports multi-currency and multi-languages
  • Invoice can be segregated based on licenses, usages, etc.,

Azure Stack Hub Billing Resources

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Cloud Assert work closely with Microsoft teams and our customers in building Hybr VConnect and Billing solutions to complement Microsoft Azure Stack adoption and to deliver a powerful hybrid cloud platform.

We're glad that customers can now take advantage of all the great features of Azure Stack without impacting existing infrastructure investments

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Azure Connect (Beta) for Windows Azure Pack

Azure Connect v1 Beta custom extension for Windows Azure Pack (WAP)

Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Sunday, February 16, 2014/Categories: Products, Azure Connect

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First release of Azure Connect Beta v1.1

Azure Connect beta for Windows Azure pack provides visibility for Windows Azure assets from inside Windows Azure Pack admin portal. Azure Connect custom admin extension enables importing Windows Azure subscriptions and viewing related resources.

Features in Beta 1.1 Release:

  • Auto-import Azure subscriptions via .PUBLISHSETTINGS file
  • Discover resources like hosted services, sql databases etc.
  • Dashboard with summary view for top usage, like Total Cores used across the subscriptions
  • Dashboard provides list of services and their status
  • Role Instances view lists all the role instances and status across the hosted services in all subscriptions. One place to quickly view all instances.
  • Remote Desktop Connection to any instance from the Role Instances view

Install Steps:

  1. Download CloudAssert.WAP.AzureConnect.Setup.msi from the provided download link
  2. May need to ignore any security warnings as this is a .msi and the browser usually complains. You can run a virus scan after the download if you want to feel comfortable.
  3. Run the setup on a computer where WAP portal is installed
  4. Accept license and click through next to finish the setup

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Setup Steps:

  1. Login to WAP Admin portal
  2. You should see 'Azure Connect' extension on the top
  3. Click on the 'Settings' tab of 'Azure Connect' extension
  4. Click on 'Apply Default' icon at the bottom of the admin portal
  5. Upon success you should see the screen change and show 'Resource Provider is currently registered and ready for use !' message along with the url settings.

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Using Azure Connect to import Windows Azure Settings:

Windows Azure Portal - login to download the .PUBLISHSETTINGS file. If you already have the files, then you can skip these steps and import the files

Once the subscriptions are imported, Azure Connect will automatically start querying Windows Azure to collect data. Give it a few minutes and click on the Dashboard and Role Instance tabs to see the details surface.

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Ravi C Kolandaiswamy

2/18/2014 12:02 AM

Updated MSI of Beta v1.1:

- Fixed Status of RoleInstances not showing up

- Added additional logic to pre-collect data for dashboard

- Added Remote Desktop Connection to any role instance


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