3.1.48 Publisher - DEPRECATED

Publisher is the name of the entity that produces the resources or services that were purchased. It is commonly used for cost analysis and reporting scenarios.

PublisherName adheres to the following requirements:

• PublisherName MUST be present in a Cost and Usage FOCUS dataset.
• PublisherName MUST be of type String.
• PublisherName MUST conform to StringHandling requirements.
• PublisherName MUST NOT be null.

See Appendix: Participating Entity Identification Examples section for examples of Service Provider Name, Host Provider Name and Invoice Issuer Name values across various use case scenarios. For entity identification examples that include the deprecated Publisher column, please see here (external GitHub link to FOCUS v1.2).

The name of the entity that produced the resources or services that were purchased.