This Common Capability covers the need for Web interfaces for viewing accounting information about resources. It also includes the need to charge for and/or make payments for resource usage online.
The Accounting Common Capability allows a user to:
The motivation for this Common Capability comes directly from the Business Needs for tools for accounting and billing for the use of resources and related services, which are utilised to execute jobs.
Accounting tools are necessary to deploy efficient and consistent market mechanisms. The accurate and integrated accounting processes that the implementation of this Common Capability will offer make it highly important from a business perspective. As a result, the user trust and satisfaction in the whole process will be strengthened. Additionally, it will provide improved cost quality control of resource usage and the ability to define new payment models.
This Common Capability can be related to the SLA Accounting Common Capability. The portal could retrieve accounting information directly from a SLA Accounting service -in case the accounting functionality of the specific application involves SLA Accounting.
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