Product
VAlign’s Insight™, our flagship activity-based accounting enabling software, features a web portal to offer IT critical demand and usage information, an essential ingredient that enables activity-based accounting capability for cloud and virtualized services, providing IT executives, business leaders, or customers visibility into how much of the shared (virtual) cloud infrastructure resources (compute, storage, and network etc.) are consumed by each consumer, internal business unit, or IT service, at a verifiable and realistic cost-basis.
Learn how VAlign Insight can:
• Provide cost recovery using tiered allocation models, usage-based models, or a hybrid of both
• Calculate the appropriate service rates with wizards and cost-pool calculators
• Add surcharges for the allocation of excess resources to control over-provisioning that degrades performance
• Set different rates for different tiers of storage (Fiber Channel, NAS, iSCSI)
• Charge per VLAN and set different rates for different Quality of Service
• View reports from a secure Web portal or output reports / bills in XML, CSV, PDF or Word formats
• Factor in depreciation schedules; support all direct and indirect capital, and operational expenses
• Offer variable rates such as tiered hosting / pricing models for each resource (CPU, RAM, Network, Disk, Storage)
• Handle real-time changes to the virtual infrastructure including virtual machine resource moves, changes and deletes
• Schedule the import of ERP data and the export of consumption and billing data for integration into third-party software applications
• Set invoicing and reporting intervals via a flexible scheduler and offer drill-down to detail records for each summary usage / billing aggregation level