apiculus

Why apiculus®?

apiculus® is meant to solve four major challenges that most cloudstack based cloud providers face: Manage Billing & profitability, Sell 3rd party VAS, Customer Experience & Growing cloud business

Billing Module

Easy billing, better selling

For many CloudStack based CSPs, a major challenge is to bill their customers in an easy and flexible manner.

apiculus® does exactly that, it offers an integrated billing system within the platform that is flexible enough to offer both a spend-based wallet and a risk-based credit limit.  

apiculus® allows setting up billing cycles, usage tracking periods, entitlements and quotas to set up subscription models.

apiculus® generates invoices and billing statements and manages all transactions towards subscriber accounts manually or using integrated payment capture solutions.

apiculus® also has a build-in dunning & policy engine to set up account based actions, reminders & restriction for any payment related issues, thus, limiting losses.

Sell & offer multi-cloud services
Cloud-commerce (Marketplace)

CloudStack based CSPs with a built-in cloud marketplace can now expand their offerings to 3rd party VAS, multi-cloud services and other Paas & SaaS.

Use apiculus®  to define catalogues and create differentiated prices based on currencies, geographies, or at an individual customer level.

apiculus® marketplace lets you offer auto-provision services and resources -
with landing sections console for technical operations management and support requests.

Get marketplace intelligence in for of reports using default widgets or create your custom report, also available in email with apiculus.

Manage Support Operations
Agile Cloud Support

As a cloud service provider customer experience and lifecycle management is at the core of becoming a successful CSP. With apiculus® , offer your cloud users a bespoke experience.

Set up onboarding processes that are easy to comprehend as per your requirements (DIY or DIFM)

Manage your service level agreements and execute support workflows with apiculus®’s operations management suite.

View complete customer profile, subscription and activity records and engage at all the pre-sales, sales and post-sales touchpoints with your customers.

Mar-tech (Integration with Marketing Software)
Growing Cloud Business

Growing cloud business needs a consistent and 360° marketing effort.

apiculus® makes it easy to market your CloudStack based public cloud. At first, you get a completely rebrandable public cloud interface, you can use your own logo, brand colour and more to make your brand standout.

apiculus® lets you promote your cloud, with the ability to create promotional campaigns, cash coupons or offer time-based trials for accounts, resource categories or the whole marketplace.

Acquire more cloud customers as you delight them by offering instant discounts. Sync apiculus® accounts with HubSpot or Mailchimp to run your targeted customer success and marketing campaigns

Who is apiculus® meant for?

apiculus is designed  for small to medium cloud service providers using Apache Cloudstack to operate a high-performance cloud business and offer complete customer engagement.

By Technology Stack

• Apache CloudStack based Public Cloud set ups
• OpenStack based Public Cloud setups (On-demand)

By Industry

• Telecom Service Providers Cloud
• Internet Service Providers Cloud
• Data center and Managed service providers Cloud
• Large multinational enterprises Cloud(Operations in multiple countries/locations)
• Government Cloud

By Role

• Cloud Product Manager
• Customer Success Managers
• Cloud Service Operations Managers
• IT Administrator
• Developers
• Cloud Business Functions