4PSA Simplifies Provisioning and Billing for Business Partners

Company's commercial partners can conveniently access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses without any human intervention.

4PSA, a cloud computing software technology company, today announced the release of Business Zone API, a REST based web service that the company's commercial partners can use to conveniently access and automatically provision cloud services and software licenses without any human intervention. Commercial partners can have this service activated on request.

The company states that by using a combination of REST HTTP requests and XML/JSON answers, commercial partners can retrieve information about its products and services, order new services or software licenses, as well as upgrade or terminate existing services. Billing processes are integrated with provisioning to simplify the partner's experience.

It further states that coupled with the cloud software licensing the company introduced in February 2011, the new REST API stands out as a powerful tool for partner service providers because it allows them to easily provision flexible, pay-as-you-grow software licenses. With Business Zone API, it is possible to provision and manage the company's products and services, as well as other products from its business partners such as Parallels.

"With Business Zone API, we want our partners to be able to automate operations that so far required human input or processing. This new service boosts the integration of their systems with our own back-end facilities and accelerates the deployment of cloud services," said Elena Carstoiu, 4PSA's VP of Sales and Marketing.

"We are enabling our partners to directly integrate 4PSA products and services into their portfolio and benefit from our automated systems. By using the Business Zone API, service providers can ensure a fully automated provisioning process even if it relies on a 4PSA resource such as a software license. The end-customer experience is also dramatically improved because the waiting time is reduced to a large extent," Carstoiu added.