http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/ Startup and Technology News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11676 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:17:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11676 [...] startup just released a billing service for cloud providers, Z-Commerce for the Cloud, which automates metering, pricing [...]

]]> http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11675 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:22:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11675 [...] startup just released a billing service for cloud providers, Z-Commerce for the Cloud, which automates metering, pricing [...]

]]> http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11674 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:39:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/02/will-drm-die-today/#comment-11674 [...] Last week, Zuora released its Z-Commerce for the Cloud service, an upgrade to its billing and payment service that is built for, guess who, cloud providers. What makes it interesting as a service is that its the first external service (SaaS) that actually understands the complex billing models of the cloud providers which account for not only monthly subscription fees, but also have to think about automated metering, pricing and billing for products, bundles, and highly individualized/specific configurations. So for example, storage as a service – one of the components of cloud platforms – is able to charge for terabytes of storage used, or IP address usage, or data transfer charges.  Or, cloud providers can structure a per CPU instance charge or per application use charge. It can take complexities like peak usage into account.  In other words, Zuora as they always do, figured it out. In fact, they’ve provided 20 pre-configured templates for the billing and payment models that cloud providers use – which tells you how confusing a market this can be.  Not to Zuora though. [...]

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