6.2 Origination of Cost Data
Cost data presented in the billing datasets originates from various sources depending on the purchasing mechanism. There are at least 3 different pieces of information that are important for understanding where cost originated from.
- Provider: The entity that made the resources and/or services available for purchase.
- Publisher: The entity that produced the resources and/or services that were purchased.
- Invoice Issuer: The entity responsible for invoicing for the resources and/or services consumed.
The value for each of these may be different depending on the various purchasing scenarios for resources and/or services. Use cases for purchasing direct, via a Managed Service Provider (MSP), via a cloud marketplace, and from internal service offerings were considered. The table below presents a few scenarios to show how the value for each dimension may change based on the purchasing scenario.
| # | Scenario | Provider | Publisher | Invoice Issuer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Purchasing cloud services directly from cloud provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider |
| 1.2 | Purchasing cloud services from the cloud provider where the cloud region is operated by a 3rd party | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Entity operating the region for the cloud service provider |
| 2.1 | Purchasing cloud services via MSP | Managed Service Provider | Cloud service provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 2.2 | Purchasing cloud-agnostic resources and/or services built/sold by an MSP | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 2.3 | Purchasing labor services from managed service provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider | Managed Service Provider |
| 3.1 | Purchasing a cloud marketplace offering that runs on the cloud provider | Cloud service provider | Company building the software and/or services (Cloud service provider OR third-party software and/or services company) | Cloud service provider |
| 3.2 | Purchasing a cloud marketplace offering that is not running directly on your cloud infrastructure (e.g,. SaaS product, Professional Services) | Cloud service provider | Company producing the SaaS or services product | Cloud service provider |
| 3.3 | Purchasing a SaaS product that is not directly running on your cloud infrastructure from a 3rd party reseller managed cloud marketplace | Cloud service provider | SaaS provider | Reseller |
| 4.1 | Purchasing SaaS software directly from provider | SaaS provider | SaaS provider | SaaS provider |
| 4.2 | Purchasing SaaS software that additionally runs on your cloud resources (in addition to #4.1) | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider | Cloud service provider |
| 5.1 | Purchasing internal infrastructure and/or services offerings running on-premise | Internal product name | Internal product name | Internal product name |
| 5.2 | Purchasing internal infrastructure and/or services offerings running on cloud | Internal product name | Internal product name | Internal product name |
| 5.3 | Associated software license cost for use on an on-premise infrastructure platform (Where license cost is presented separately in cost data) | Internal product name | Company producing the software | Internal product name |