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Simplify cloud management with powerful tools and insight

The next generation of Crayon’s Cloud-iQ platform streamlines procurement, management, and billing processes for partners and customers. The unified portal offers an enhanced vendor catalog, in-depth analytics, and automated tools, complemented by redesigned interfaces to create a more intuitive user experience.

This article highlights the key features of Cloud-iQ, which focus on Procurement, Management, Insights, Billing, and Administration. Here’s an overview:

Procurement: Simplified processes

Procurement: Simplified processes

Cloud-iQ’s hyperscaler marketplace can connect partners with all leading cloud and software vendors, as well as an extensive range of smaller providers. Our centralised solution allows for efficient control over cloud usage and spending across various vendors.

Maximise Procurement features:

  • Browse the Microsoft Marketplace catalogue for private offerings tailored to your needs.
  • Explore the multi-publisher catalogue for standard software options, with the flexibility to request additional products via free-text quote requests.
  • Use intuitive search and filtering tools to find the right cloud solutions quickly.
Management: Robust capabilities

Management: Robust capabilities

With a single dashboard, partners can efficiently oversee their cloud environments and manage their subscriptions and licenses. Cloud-iQ makes it easy to modify and allocate assets as business needs evolve.

Maximise Management features:

  • Enable automated alerts to get notified when customers approach or hit custom usage and spending limits.
  • Schedule renewals in advance to ensure uninterrupted services.
  • Explore functionalities for modifying subscriptions or adding licenses with real-time provisioning.
Insights: Comprehensive and actionable

Insights: Comprehensive and actionable

Advanced reporting tools, including dashboards reflecting real-time usage and spending, empower partners to optimise costs and resource allocation. The platform creates business intelligence reports on billing, usage, and renewals, which can be exported as Microsoft Excel and CSV files.

Maximise Insights features:

  • Use live cost reports to track spending and observe trends for usage-based services.
  • Comb through analytics dashboards and switch between high-level overviews and detailed license or subscription data.
  • Generate usage and cost estimates to aid in budgeting and expense forecasting.
Billing: Efficient solutions

Billing: Efficient solutions

Cloud-iQ offers robust functionalities for billing and invoice management. A flexible, centralised dashboard provides order and invoice histories, facilitating easier financial oversight no matter how many accounts you’re managing. This enhances transparency and cost optimisation.

Maximise Billing features:

  • Explore available formats for invoices and reports.
  • Use filtering and grouping features to organise your billing dashboard based on your needs.
  • Download detailed billing reports with a breakdown of costs for all products and services.
Administration: Flexible tools

Administration: Flexible tools

From user and identity management to integrated support ticketing, Cloud-iQ provides the abilities partners need to self-manage their accounts according to their needs. The platform supports multi-company configurations and multiple invoice profiles. It also offers APIs allowing partners to integrate Cloud-iQ’s functionalities into their internal systems.

Maximise Administration features:

  • Fine-tune user access and controls for enhanced security.
  • Look into varied support plans tailored to different organisational needs.
  • Explore dynamic configurations and tagging options on multiple levels, from company-wide settings to adjustments for individual users.
Let’s get started

Let’s get started

We understand that transitions can be challenging.

Your needs and concerns are our priority, and we are working hard to make the migration to the next generation of Cloud-iQ as seamless as possible.

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