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Cloud Cruiser for Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud

Cloud Financial Management

Cisco IAC

A tenant user requests or changes a service in

Cisco IAC

Tenant User

Up-to-date pricing can be

reflected in Cisco IAC

The chargeback administrator defines costs

and sets prices

Chargeback Administrator Cloud Cruiser

Cisco IAC provisions the service

How Do Cloud Cruiser and Cisco Intelligent Automation Work Together?

The business manager generates reports, P&Ls and recommends price

revisions

Business Manager

Cloud Cruiser

Database

Cloud Cruiser collects usage data for the

service

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Default pricing is assigned

to the service.

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Tenants order services from

the Cisco IAC service catalog.

Ordering services in CIAC


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In this example, the tenant

orders a VM from a Template

Ordering a Virtual Machine from a Template


The tenant defines the

characteristics of the desired

service and assigns a unique

host name. In this example,

the host name is ‘iademo3’

Ordering a Virtual Machine from a Template

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to the service.

The host names deployed

are displayed within the My

Servers tab in Cisco IAC

Displaying Services in Cisco IAC



to the service.

The organization that owns

the service is reflected in

the service display




to the service.

Details about the VM are

displayed, which show that this

small VM consists of 2 CPUs, 2

GB of memory, and 30 GB of disk



Quick aswer reporting

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‘My Cloud’ Dashboard

View your Top Costs by Account or by

Resource to see where the majority of

your IT spending is occurring and to

identify potential overages at a glance.

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‘My Cloud’ Dashboard The alert section of the MyCloud dashboard

provides a quick glimpse into the state of

your organization’s cloud spending with red,

yellow, and green status alerts.


Setting Rates for Cisco IAC Services

The resources being deployed from

within Cisco IAC are now reflected in

Cloud Cruiser


Setting Rates for Cisco IAC Services Charge by allocated or

actual usage.



Use effective dates to set

future price changes or

define promotional periods.



Meet any business need with flexible

pricing models, such as fixed, tiered,

discounts, promotions, resource

state, and more



Record your actual service

costs in Cloud Cruiser to

enable P&L reporting for

profit maximization


Creating a Consolidated Bill of IT

All costs associated with the

organization are now reported

on an invoice


Creating a Consolidated Bill of IT

Any usage metric can be

drilled into for deeper analysis


Drilling Into the Resource Details

Slice and dice the data with

resource specific identifiers

provided by each vendor


Viewing IT Spending Trends at a Glance Easy-to-read graphs provide quick

insight into IT resource usage and

spending over time


Viewing IT Spending Trends at a Glance

Drill down to provide detailed

information at every level of the

organization


COGS and P&L Reporting

Profit and loss report

shows profitability by

customer or resource


COGS and P&L Reporting Cost of Goods Sold and Revenue

are summarized for each level of

the organization and you can see at

a glance which businesses or

resources are most profitable.



Click on the icon to drill

down for a detailed P&L

for any Business Unit



Report on revenue received

from Cisco IAC and other

services provisioned

Display the costs incurred

to deliver the services


Set customized budgets and

alerts at any level in the

hierarchy

Proactive Budgets and Alerts


Establish budgets by calendar

or accounting periods



Set alerts on either actual or

forecasted consumption



Identify alert recipients via

email and the MyCloud

dashboard when thresholds

are approaching or exceeded


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