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Optimise cloud investments with Cloud-iQ
Cloud programs, products, pricing, and licensing conditions are dynamic and constantly changing. Stay on top of it all with Cloud-iQ, Crayon’s self-service e-procurement platform.
Manage cloud products, services, and economics across multiple vendors and currencies, through a single-pane portal view. Gain instant access to cloud services, comprehensive spending reports, and enjoy the flexibility to adjust services and costs as you go.
Platform Capabilities
The Cloud-iQ platform is Crayon’s self-service cloud provisioning platform, offering best-in-class capabilities for managing your cloud services.
The portal lets the user order and manage cloud software and resources from our range of vendor programs.
- Self-service procurement of Cloud services and products
- Adjust and manage subscription plans
- Instant access to new subscriptions and licenses after provisioning
- View service catalog and prices
- Cost calculated daily for license-based services, and actual usage for consumption-based services
- Place support requests and order add-on support
- View cost reports on usage-based services
- Easy access to service management
- Set consumption notifications and get spending reports
- Billing Management
- Ability to have multiple user accounts, and self-manage your accounts to suit your business needs
With Cloud-iQ you can:
- Simplify your order and management processes
- Control cloud usage and spending through centralized procurement cross vendors
- Provision subscriptions and licenses instantly
- Lower costs by reducing software surplus spending
- Reduce the time you spend on cloud management
- Reduce time spent on administration
- Access to comprehensive BI reports for usage and billing management
Partners with offices and/or customers in multiple geographies have all they need to transact the right licensing agreement, at the right price, in the correct currency. Cloud-iQ can provide a consolidated view of your business across 40+ countries.
Integrate core systems via API:
Crayon offers Cloud-iQ APIs that enable partners to connect their portals/systems to Crayon’s systems.
The APIs help Cloud-iQ users:
- manage subscriptions
- get products and prices
- obtain usage and billing data
- and much more.
Our APIs essentially let partners have access to the same functionality they have when logged into our Cloud-iQ portal right from within their own internal systems.
Calculate daily costs for license-based services, and actual usage for consumption-based services. Set consumption notifications and get spending reports. Control cloud usage and reduce wastage.