XAAS Solutions
Advantages
Availability - No need to think about licensing and installing applications, services or virtual machines. Cloud services are accessible from anywhere in the world, from any device with a web browser.
Serviceability - You'll use the service and put all your support needs on the provider's shoulders
Flexibility - You can customize any parameters for the selected service. The XaaS platform gives you a choice of several payment models, so you can choose the one that's right for you
Comprehensiveness - The XaaS Platform lets you order and manage multiple cloud services from one central location:
- SaaS (Software-as-a-service) provided by partners;
- IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service);
- NaaS (Network-as-a-Service), such as the provision of vCPE (virtual Customer Premises Equipment).
Cloud services are services that provide convenient on-demand network access to computing resources (such as data networks, servers, storage devices and applications) that are deployed in the cloud infrastructure and are accessible from a variety of devices.
With cloud services, you delegate the operations of installing and configuring applications, configuring the computing power of your infrastructure, monitoring, backing up data, and only consuming services as if they were installed on your work systems.
This service delivery model is defined as XaaS, or Anything-as-a-service. With this type of access, the user is provided with a complete solution: from the off-the-shelf hardware and software to business process management, including the interaction between users. The user only needs Internet access to manage the solution.
A single solution that combines a web portal for ordering and managing cloud services and a platform for provisioning and automating operations for XaaS is the Platform for automation of XaaS maintenance and setup solutions (from Delta Solutions).
Architecture of the XaaS service delivery platform
Presentation Layer - data presentation layer that provides customers and portal operator with a set of relevant user interfaces to manage the XaaS storefront, storefront, personal account
Business Logic Layer - Layer of scripted business logic for the service lifecycle, billing processes and customer care scenarios, based on Delta OMS
Integration Layer - Level of integration with customer's internal enterprise systems, as well as various partner platforms
To standardize, simplify and therefore speed up the process of onboarding partners can use General Partner API. The Platform is applicable to a variety of business areas and can be deployed for customers in the B2B and B2C segments:
- in the IT sphere;
- Telecommunication services;
- in Retail;
- industrial sector;
- etc.
Integration
The platform supports integration with the interfaces of external systems through basic protocols: HTTP(S), REST, SOAP, ProtoBuf, SMTP, etc.
For network equipment configuration tasks, the platform has its own adapters (link to "Service Activation System") to interact with the following vendors:
- Cisco;
- Huawei;
- Eltex;
- D-Link;
- Ericsson.
The platform for providing XaaS services has a set of ready interfaces to a large number of different corporate systems of the customer:
- ERP and CRM systems;
- EDI systems;
- Billing systems;
- APCS and MES systems;
- ESB-bus systems;
- Reference systems;
- Monitoring systems.
The platform has a ready-to-use API for interaction with vendor platforms providing XaaS services:
- SaaS services, such as MSO 365;
- Cloud data center provisioning platforms (IaaS services);
- Cloud NFV (Network Function Virtualization) platforms;
- Network hardware (NaaS services).
User Interfaces.
WEB Portal - an application storefront for XaaS services, available to all users on the Internet. It has a detailed description for each of the presented applications and a comparison table of tariffs. It is possible to bundle several apps when ordering into a bundle.
SelfService - self-service portal providing B2B and B2C clients with the possibility to independently obtain actual information about the status of their order processing, manage connected services and keep in touch with the service provider. The self-service portal integrates with the internal systems of the service provider, allowing you to take a step towards omni-channel interaction with the customer.
Back-Office is an integral part of product support and management processes. It is widely used within various solutions for tasks ranging from elementary data configuration in the application database and its management to complex telecom equipment management mechanisms, all of which become simple and straightforward.
GUI Catalog - Product Catalog plays a critical role in product lifecycle management processes. The catalog allows you to provide high quality, relevant and complete information needed by the customer, on the basis of which you can quickly make correct and profitable purchase decisions. The storefront is managed and the offerings are configured through a specialized product catalog interface.
