Examples

This page provides examples that demonstrate typical ways to monitor and analyze your operation using analytical reports.

Cost metrics

This section includes three examples, each for a tenant level in the hierarchical model.

• Distributor view.

  • Billed Cost: The amount the distributor is charged by the cloud provider.

  • Resold Cost: The amount the distributor charges its resellers (the current example has no discount exclusions or up-charges).

    

• Reseller view.

  • Billed Cost: The amount the reseller is charged by its distributor.

  • Resold Cost: The amount the reseller charges the end customer, Customer C in the example.

  • Margin: The reseller's gross margin. Margin = Resold Cost − Billed Cost

    

• End customer view.

  • Billed Cost: The amount the end customer is charged by its reseller.

    

Marketplace transactions

In this example, an end customer user tracks Marketplace transactions using the Host Provider Name dimension.

A distributor or reseller user can also use Host Provider Name or Service Provider Name to track Marketplace transactions.

The example below is run at the distributor level.