Computingstack Uniview™ OpenStack User Console, Billing and Business Support Solutions

OpenStack is a strong underlying for public clouds, but often costly engineering is required to be business viable. Uniview provides all that a public cloud needs by a single package with no need of budget on your own develpment or efforts of complex integrations which ofen lead to high operation cost. With Uniview, user recruitment/ registration, credit card validation, bill and invoice generation/query, automated payment through integrated popular payment Gateway, plus an AWS comparable console are out of box, so that within 30 minutes of setup, bare metal to cash flow is possible.

The easy utilities specifically provided for public cloud users includes out of box user onboarding process, console based bill generation, admin interactive payment console and ticketing systems. A single click by admin will consistently generate bill at the end of each billing cycle with dry-run and prod run modes. The interactive admin initiated payment process provide best auditability and traceability. The white-labeling feature of Uniview enables a possibility to have your public cloud ready with just configurations!

Billing is the business cornerstone. To compare with other OpenStack billing solutions, Uniview has many advantages. Uniview supports end2end solution as far as billing is concerned from event collection, mediation to invoice/payment. Uniview seamlessly supports the upstream community metering and rating solution, in the meanwhile, it comes with Uniview Collector and Rating that can self-sufficiently have full billing solution ready in no time. Uniview supports the most popular payment model, i.e. post-pay with credit card validation, as how most of modern public clouds conducts, and it can support prepaid or credit based billing model with integration of WHMCS etc with certain customizations. Overall Uniview delivers pleasant user experiences with no excessive non Openstack relevant terms enforced for those who get used to OpenStack, AWS alike clouds.

Besides billing, Uniview public cloud solution takes full advantage of Uniview cloud console which is known providing industry best OpenStack cloud observability with all desirable seamless graphic metric views, sophisticated wizards, drag and drop transparent S3/Object store user interfaces, One click Kubernetes Dashboard, tons of security features etc that a leverage you can rely on to compete with AWS and other mega clouds. .

More reasons to think of Uniview as your public cloud solutions:

Keep the Nature of Open-source Solution Overall While Boosting Total Solutions with Enterprise Disciplines^{★★★★★}

Uniview is a proprietary layer over OpenStack to complement Open-source ecosystem. With Uniview, a business stays with all the benefits open sources bring in, and the meanwhile gains a premium cohesive business effect that is normally only achieveable through high cost of substantial developments and costly R&D. It's thin as it doesn't break the integrity of OpenStack, inherites many legacies and interacts only through APIs with OpenStack. It's substantial, as it refines the user experiences of OpenStack by rewriting user interactions of dozens cloud services, and provides various utilities for enterprise needs.

OpenStack frontends and integrations for the public cloud are a high complex proceeding. We constantly research and develop to align with the best of the industry, and timely integrate those new features into the products, so that you don't need invest again. We open future developments into one package of Uniview to ongoing customer to drive business excellence.

Leading by Being Comprehensive, Sophisticate and Sustainable^{★★★★★}

Be comprehensive as a public should be! Uniview started its journey from evolving Horizon and Skyline legacy, hence it happened to have wide coverage as OpenStack nature goes. This can be different from other billing derived solutions that other than billing, the solution on OpenStack console itself is relatively limited. Uniview has substantial engineering in meeting various technical use-cases. Regardless Compute VM focused, Kubernetes Oriented or Storage intensive clouds, Uniview purposed engineering are substantial. Fully aligned with upstream OpenStack community, every components and protocols has no constraint of evolving toward the future. Easy with 30 minutes install to get started, to scale up into medium to big public clouds, and horizontally grow from only VM cloud toward Container/Kubernetes cloud, Database and object cloud storage feature enriched morden clouds at no extra hassles. Uniview comes with a ticketing system that helps communications, drives transparencies and increase trusts!

Be sophisicated as a public should be! Expectation on public cloud from users is way higher than private clouds at today. Dull experience or simple layout will soon lose customer traction. With this in mind, Uniview implementaiton has been a rentless innovation journey to stay at front. Some examples of such include an unparalleled Kuberntes Dashboards, VM Wizards, Object Storage Console, cohesive across services integration and more! Uniview comes with Kubernetes API implementation too, in parallel to OpenStack APIs. The dashboards combine the beauty of both world leading open source ecosystems, i.e. OIF(Open Infra Foundation) and CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). Uniview comes with a user oriented S3 alike cloud storage console that manages object store with funs. And there are many other well polished world leading consoles for services that entertain users !

Uniview is sustainable by multiple folds. First of all, to run such a complexity of public cloud engine, users often find Uniview is straightforward and low-maintenance. Due to its sound architecture Uniview doesn't introduces excessive complexities. To compare with similar other public cloud solutions, Uniview refrained from introducing disparate technologies such as mongodb, redis, api engine etc, when they can help in one way but incohesive feature adding implies a good amount extra backup, high availability, security, monitoring overhead and administrator skill curves. Uniview sticks to the same famility as much as possible, such as only MySql or MariaDb that OpenStack controller uses, to have database reduduncy and backup resuable across all openstack components. Uniview integrated API-Engine makes it maintenance free with smart detecting and proxing to hundreds of OpenStack and non-openstack endpoints: Keystone, Keycloak, Nova, Prometheus, Ceph, Kubernetes Internal API, Payment Gateway etc. Secondly Uniview is scalable when it can be scaled to support huge user requests by simple load balancing. How to scale is a critical factor of total operation cost of running a software solution. Uniview architecture is designed to support up to hundreds identical daemonsets that can be distributed into one or many docker instances or Kubernest pods over collision avoiding coordination and smart job distribution. To compare with some other similar solutions, the total cost of owning and running Uniview is only a very small portion of those. That makes Uniview a perfect fit to both very resource limited startup and carrier grade enterprise!

Bring Risk of Public Cloud Investment to the Minimal^{★★★★★}

Operating public cloud can be daunting and costly! But with Uniview it's not necessary! Uniview may be considered as operation execellence build book of a public cloud, with out-of-box readiness of key public cloud features. So you can see what your final cloud can be in short manner with no risk neither uncertainties of lengthy in-house PoC and developments.

Some known references show that in-house developments of frontend and billing solution can be very costly and not sustainable. The journey of Uniview, as one example, was actually exponentially longer than what was imagined at the beginning. Thus with Uniview as a shared model, the similar efforts by a substantial team for many years is not necessarily accounted in your new project planning.

Minimal operation hidden risk! Billing can be most labor intensive process from metering, bill generation, payment, invoice management toward account auditing. With Uniview we can have most of those covered. For serious deploy, we will stand with you shoulder by shoulder for bill generating, troubelshooting, payment, invoice, and rating/pricing definitition where most hidden operation curves lie for a public cloud. Uniview is one package solution for all. As native to OpenStack and developed for OpenStack and working only for Openstack, hence its administration is intuitive and concise. To compare with other billing solutions derived from e.g. webhosting, or those originated for backends of VMware/CloudStack, Uniview is found way concise and sustaintable, e.g. by complementary solution over latest community based metering. To get started does not require substantial resource. And it is scalable with no upper limit.

Business Viable by Accomodating and Full Compatibility^{★★★★★}

Uniview provides adapdations to various possibilities of your OpenStack Install, e.g. by different distros, different customizations, security enforcements, CEPH RGW, Kuberntes CAPI vs Magnum classic, CloudKitty or other billing modules, existing Cloud Federation, or Keycloak addon. It's generally like a Plug and Play. Uniview supports user onboarding by its native user registration and validation process, or popular Keycloak user registration process plus Uniview SSO Landing Portal for billing control. Accomodating and compatibility are proven helpful in cutting significant both engineering and operation hurdles so that a small team can operate a large and sophisiticate cloud. With Uniview, service provider can instantly have acurate billing, dashboards, price plan definition, rating with just a few clicks, when it could be months or year efforts due to native self-sufficient metering/rating or open-source way on customer choice.