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Service Onboarding Portal
Jamcracker’s Services Delivery Network (JSDN) enables organizations to become Cloud Services Brokerages (CSBs), which has become the fastest-growing segment within the cloud computing market. The JSDN is leveraged by dozens of global service providers, distributors, technology providers, and enterprises to aggregate and deliver public cloud/SaaS offerings along with their own service offerings.
The JSDN includes a Services Integration Framework that enables any JSDN-powered CSB marketplace to distribute cloud services from multiple cloud providers. CSB operators’ customers and resellers can view different service offerings from the CSBs’ catalogs and place orders. The JSDN routes ordering and provisioning information from these marketplaces to the relevant cloud providers via service adapters.
Jamcracker Connect provides a self-service “on-ramp” that enables cloud providers to easily publish their application and infrastructure services to the JSDN, gaining access via a single integration to a global services delivery network. This benefits CSB operators by rapidly expanding the number of services they can distribute to their customers and through their resellers. And the CSBs’ customers benefit by having access to a rich catalog of services along with a unified provisioning, billing, user management, support, and access control experience across multiple cloud providers
Once a cloud provider has been granted access to Jamcracker Connect, they login to a self-service portal and start their on-boarding process using a web-based wizard. The output from Jamcracker Connect will define the catalog content and “adapter” requirements that enable the service to be presented, ordered, provisioned, and accessed from multiple JSDN-powered marketplaces.
Jamcracker Connect has 3 sections that the provider will need to complete–Catalog View, Order Flow, and Service Provisioning. The following steps apply to new services being on-boarded to the JSDN, as well as for making life-cycle updates to services that had been previously published:
The output from the Self--Service Portal can be used to build an automated provisioning “adapter” using Jamcracker’s XML--based Services Integration Framework as well as by leveraging 3rd party integration tools (e.g. IBM Cast Iron, Dell Boomi, Talend), or a manual provisioning process is also an option
Jamcracker Connect provides cloud providers with an easy-to-use tool for on-boarding their application and infrastructure services to JSDN–which is used by dozens of service providers, distributors, technology providers, and enterprises globally to distribute cloud services. With this single integration approach, Cloud Providers can broaden their reach into new markets and realize increased revenues with limited effort.
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