System And Method For Automatic Pricing Of Remotely Hosted Applications
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorsChad Archibald, Steven Earl, Thomas McEvilly, Deepak Gupta
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Abstract
Automatic pricing of remotely hosted applications permits users to enter customer data and flexibly prices various product offerings, product lines, and applications. An initial build of a computer system, modifications to an existing computer system configuration, extended services, and enhancements are incorporated. Errors are checked for and can be corrected. Using the invention, a sales team can quickly and efficiently price products and services at the inception of a business relationship, and can easily modify prices during the business relationship.
Claims30
A method in a computer system of determining a price for a remote hosting service, comprising:
- calculating a minimum price for at least one application to be remotely hosted as part of a product offering;
- converting a number of users of a first user category into power user equivalents and storing the power user equivalents as a monthly user dollar amount, a power user being a dedicated user of the product offering;
- calculating a product offering pricing minimum by selecting the greater of the monthly user dollar amount and the minimum price for the at least one application to determine an initial price for the product offering to be remotely hosted;
- calculating a total remote hosting price including a sum of the initial price for the product offering price and a calculated price for extended services;
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- generating output indicative of a pricing summary including the total remote hosting price.
A computer program product embedded in a computer readable medium for determining a price for a remote hosting service, comprising:
- program code for calculating a minimum price for at least one application to be remotely hosted as part of a product offering;
- program code for converting a number of users of a first user category into power user equivalents and storing the power user equivalents as a monthly user dollar amount, a power user being a dedicated user of the product offering;
- program code for calculating a product offering pricing minimum by selecting the greater of the monthly user dollar amount and the minimum price for the at least one application to determine an initial price for the product offering to be remotely hosted;
- program code for calculating a total remote hosting price including a sum of the initial price for the product offering price and a calculated price for extended services;
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- program code for generating output indicative of a pricing summary including the total remote hosting price.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.