Category: Billing & Account Management

Coverage and utilization metrics can be misleading and do not always tell the full story when it comes to managing commitments and measuring their impact. Effective Savings Rate (ESR) is an objective FinOps metric that measures your true ROI. In this blog post, we will discuss challenges with coverage and utilization, why ESR is important, benchmarking insights, and automation with ProsperOps.

Small and mid-sized utilities have challenges within their vertical stack to commercialize and operate energy products such as power and gas. An efficient utility billing system allows providers to track and monitor the utility services they offer, manage billing processes, collect data, and engage well with customers. Learn how AWS and Accenture collaborated to build a vertical solution called Uptility for utilities in regulated markets, and how Uptility provides needed capabilities at low cost.

When moving to a SaaS model, companies need more flexible billing constructs that allow them to support a range of billing strategies and models. Learn how SaaS providers can create a billing integration experience that captures metering data and publishes it to a third-party billing system. We’ll also review common SaaS billing models and introduce a sample billing implementation that provides a working example of how you can approach building a strategy for integrating with SaaS billing providers.