The “Magic Cloud” for Rural Service Providers

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Esmeralda Swartz.

Here at MetraTech we work hard to provide a billing and compensation platform that will help service providers monetize their services, whether those services are deployed in the cloud, across the Internet or other methods. However, we have learned that before proposing a billing solution, we first need to understand the full extent of the problems our customers face.

The cloud business model is already exciting enough, offering opportunities for a plethora of new services, delivering services in new and better ways and enabling collaborative business models that could be worth more than the sum of their parts. But, if all that isn’t enough, the cloud is now being infused with "magical" properties. This week I read several articles that introduced a new concept that takes the cloud one step further: the magic cloud. Here is just one example from Billing World:…

"Cloud computing is leveling the playing field and enabling rural and regional providers to deliver excellent customer experiences and to deploy new services on par with larger service providers with much larger customer bases … rural or regional service providers can now overcome the budget and resource constraints that compelled them to develop custom business support systems (BSS) in-house … the cloud … democratizes access to the latest BSS solutions, while leaving ample room to grow."…

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