Ensim Corporation, a leading provider of an end-to-end platform for monetizing any offering with marketplace, subscription management, service catalog, provisioning, usage collection, and billing for service providers, MSPs, and enterprises, today announced the availability of a major update to their integrated solution with IBM Cloud / SoftLayer. The integration with the Ensim Automation Suite enables complete customer life-cycle management with full usage collection, rating, payment, and billing.

The Ensim Automation Suite enables the complete quote to cash process, from the initial order configuration, quote, approval process, notifications, deployment, and usage tracking, to billing and payment for the full array of SoftLayer offerings. Providers can bundle with 100s of other XaaS applications that are pre-integrated with the Ensim Automation Suite for monthly, yearly, or flexible subscription and payment plans. Single sign-on directly via the Ensim portal to the SoftLayer administrative console ensures ease of management, while automated usage collection ensures accounts are always in sync and accurate. Delegated administration portals enable simplified and automated user and administrator self-service at all levels (customer, agent, reseller, service provider).

"The development of Ensim Service Manager for IBM Cloud / SoftLayer enables providers to expand their IaaS offering portfolio and bundling a variety of add-on services, while effectively maintaining business objectives and enforcing policy requirements," said David Wippich, CEO, Ensim. "Ensim is proud to offer a comprehensive platform that enables providers to offer, bundle and differentiate the SoftLayer offerings from a single portal."

Ensim Automation Suite and Ensim SoftLayer IaaS Manager v2.1 Key Features:

• Cloud Marketplace with Catalog, Quoting, Ordering
• Channel enablement for Resellers and Agents
• Integration to all SoftLayer Datacenter locations
• Virtual machine management: Create, Start, Stop, Clone, Edit
• Create and Assign Administrators
• Bi-directional sync of User accounts
• Detailed usage collection and reports with parameter details
• Accurate Invoicing and Cost of Goods reconciliation

"Service Providers looking to offer IaaS now have the option of deploying an on-premise virtual machine management platform (Microsoft, VMware or OpenStack) or can leverage SoftLayer's cloud based IaaS platform to meet the demands of their customers," said William Fellows, Research Vice President of 451 Research. "The Ensim Automation Suite offers Private, Public and Hybrid IaaS management from a single portal and provides robust end-to-end ordering, provisioning, and billing all through a single pane of glass."