BOSS Description

BOSS is the abbreviation for Billing for OpenStack Software. It is intended to solve problems of billing and self-service portals development for private cloud and service providers more efficiently.

BOSS was developed as a reliable and stable service that allows clients to deploy a comprehensive aimed-at-consumer solution as fast as possible.

BOSS contains the following key features:

• The extensive functionality to solve the main business cases;
• An open architecture to provide a simple scale out.

Business stories

1. Customers.

• Registration;
• Email confirmation;
• Password change and recovery;
• Deleting a customer.

2. Scheduling.

• History of cloud storage during a particular period of time;
• Statistics on a cloud, a service and a type of a virtual server;
• Scheduling;
• Costing.

3. Services and Plans.

• Services management;
• Plan creation and edition;
• Users migration.

4. Simple Interfaces.

• Cloud management with the basic interface.

  • Create/Stop/Start;
  • Backups;
  • Public IP-addresses management;
  • Private images;
  • DNS & PTR management.

• Cloud management with the full interface of OpenStack Horizon.

5. Technical Support.

• Email Support;
• Integration with support systems.

6. Self-service Portals.

• Order of cloud resources.

7. News and mailing.

• News publication scripts;
• Mailing lists.

8. Roles for provider’s employees:

• Administrator;
• Business Manager;
• Account Manager and Tech Support Engineer.

Key Features For Service Providers

1. Promo offers and promo codes.

2. Special discount.

3. Opportunity to sell and process not only OpenStack.

• Temporary services;
• Subscription;
• Integration by plugins with external systems.

4. Balances. Integration with payment systems.

• Add funds for private persons:

  • Bank cards binding;
  • Auto payments;
  • Add funds with the bank card.

• Generating documents for legal entities:

  • Generating of several types of invoices;
  • Generating documents for bank payment.
  • Reports in many format generation.

Technical details

1. A simple deploy.

2. Load balancing and a simple scale out.

• Parallel running;
• Fault tolerance.

3. Plugins to extend the functionality.

• Extensions for non-OpenStack services;
• Development of the desired functionality.