Platform-as-a-service billing
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorTimothy J. Thompson
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Abstract
An illustrative embodiment of a process for reconciling billing measures to cost factors, comprising receiving, by one or more processors, a set of billing measures from one or more applications and a set of cost factors from infrastructure feeds. Analyzing the set of billing measures and cost factors received, using a set of defined relationships to create analyzed information and generates, by the one or more processors, a set of reports using the analyzed information. Responsive to a determination to update the set of definitions, update the sets of definitions using information from the generated reports.
Claims14
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A computer program product for reconciling billing measures to cost factors, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer-readable data storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable data storage devices, the program instructions comprising:
- computer executable program code for receiving, by one or more processors, a set of billing measures from one or more applications;
- computer executable program code for receiving, by the one or more processors, a set of cost factors from infrastructure feeds;
- computer executable program code for analyzing the set of billing measures and cost factors received, by the one or more processors, using a set of defined relationships to create analyzed information;
- computer executable program code for generating, by the one or more processors, a set of reports using the analyzed information;
- computer executable program code for determining, by the one or more processors, whether to update the set of definitions;
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- computer executable program code for the one or more processors responsive to a determination to update the set of definitions, updating the sets of definitions using information from the generated reports.
An apparatus for reconciling billing measures to cost factors, the apparatus comprising:
- a communications fabric;
- one or more computer-readable data storage devices connected to the communications fabric;
- a memory connected to the communications fabric, wherein the memory contains computer executable program code;
- a communications unit connected to the communications fabric;
- an input/output unit connected to the communications fabric;
- and
- one or more processors connected to the communications fabric, wherein the one or more processors executes the computer executable program code to direct the apparatus to:
- receive, by the one or more processors, a set of billing measures from one or more applications;
- receive, by the one or more processors, a set of cost factors from infrastructure feeds;
- analyze the set of billing measures and cost factors received, by the one or more processors, using a set of defined relationships to create analyzed information;
- generate, by the one or more processors, a set of reports using the analyzed information;
- determining, by the one or more processors, whether to update the set of definitions;
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- the one or more processors responsive to a determination to update the set of definitions, update the sets of definitions using information from the generated reports.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.