Charge Back:

The Cloupia Chargeback provides cost management, monitoring and reporting capabilities. The Chargeback component enables business units to account, monitor and report resource usage and associated costs. Business units gets the visibility about how much they are paying for resources and how much goes for unused, allowing them to optimize resource consumption and costs. It enables to make better informed decisions by business units with a clear view into resources consumed and their associated costs. Giving organizations in-depth information about cost drivers helps them make smarter decisions during budgeting processes, cost reduction analysis, billing and impact studies. It provides comparative analysis of spend vs plan to enable user behavioral modifications towards IT spending. Business and IT leaders can also use the data to make better projections about future resource needs. The Chargeback component continuously monitors actual resource utilization on a per-VM and per-group level. These detailed resource accounting details can be rolled into VM level, group level chargeback summary reports.

Key features: Cost accounting Flexible cost models Resource usage accounting Chargeback reporting Key Benefits: Cost visibility and transparency Better cost management Budget Optimization Improve resource utilization Enable behavioral modification