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.
Claims7
A process for reconciling billing measures to cost factors, the process comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, a set of billing measures from one or more applications;
- receiving, by the one or more processors, a set of cost factors from infrastructure feeds;
- 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;
- generating, 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, updating the sets of definitions using information from the generated reports.
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