Cloud Commerce Platform Solution Providers (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud computing are evolving at such a rapid rate that today’s differentiated offering can quickly become tomorrow’s commodity. As we’ve seen during the telecom and dot com bubbles, the global market has limited patience for “me too” technologies, strategies or approaches. Being early or even first in a given market segment with a basic service, no CAPX and a painless implementation methodology won’t remain a winning model for long. Unlike telecom offerings which took decades to become commoditized “pipes”, cloud computing offerings face credible competition that is both immediate and global.

Cloud Commerce Providers must not only have an infrastructure to innovate their own business models, they should provide similar capabilities to their subscription business customers too. For example, many cloud computing customers will build SaaS offerings, social networking applications and/or subscription services. Once built, the next logical step is determining how to distribute and monetize them. Providing these customers with the ability to seamlessly monetize their offerings creates a sticky relationship and a new recurring revenue stream.

Both SaaS and Cloud Computing have high business model velocities which require the ability to quickly, safely and cost effectively meet market and strategic demands. BillWise's Connect:SM conforms to the business rather than requiring the business to make compromises to accommodate the product. BillWise offers integrated, end-to-end customer life-cycle subscription billing and recurring payment solutions for SaaS and Cloud Computing providers. Capabilities that can set you apart include customer self service with full usage detail presentment, configurable order work flow and provisioning, rules-driven pricing for application and resource charges, n-tier account hierarchy structure, support for retail and wholesale models, partner reconciliation and settlement, and support for invoice-on-behalf-of (IOBO), Billing-on-behalf-of (BOBO), and Private Label Billing in a reseller mode.