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Glossary

Welcome to the CloudBlue glossary, where you can learn about the Anything / Everything as a Service (XaaS) world; Cloud marketplaces, cloud computing, infrastructure, and its terminology; and Software as a Service (SaaS).

You will also find informative mini articles on specific topics, such as subscription and billing management, Product Information Management (PIM), and Digital Service Providers (DSPs), for example, that are designed to help you improve your knowledge on all XaaS or Cloud related concepts.

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Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)
Recurring Billing
Usage-Based Billing (UBB)

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

A

Annual Contract Value (ACV)

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)

Application Management Services (AMS)

Application Marketplace

Assisted Selling

Average Customer Life (ACL)

Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)

Average Selling Price (ASP)

AWS Marketplace

AWS Partner Network (APN)

Azure Marketplace

B

B2B Data Providers

B2B Digital Marketplace

B2B Marketplace

B2B Marketplace Platform

B2B Multicloud Platform

B2B Partner Programs

Backup as a Service (BaaS)

Billing Platform

Bring your own cloud (BYOC)

Business Development Representative (BDR)

C

D

Daily Active Users (DAU)

Data as a Service (DaaS)

Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

Developer Ecosystem

Digital Commerce Platform (DCP)

Digital Marketplace

Digital Service Provider (DSP)

Digital Supply Chain

Digital Transformation

Distributor Software

E

Enterprise Commerce

Everything as a Service (XaaS)

F

Forcing Function

G

Google Cloud Marketplace

Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy

Gross Revenue Retention (GRR)

H

Hardware as a Service (HWaaS)

Hosted Application

Hyperscaler Marketplace

I

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure Operations

Internet of Things (IoT)

Involuntary Churn

IoT Marketplace

IT as a Service (ITaaS)

J

K

L

Lead Velocity Rate (LVR)

Lifetime Value (LTV)

M

Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Marginal Revenue

Marketplace Application Platform

Marketplace as a Service (MaaS)

Marketplace Platform

Marketplace Software

Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program

Migration Costs

Monetization Strategy

Monthly Active Users (MAU)

Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR)

N

Net Dollar Retention (NDR)

Net Revenue Retention (NRR)

O

Odd Even Pricing

Office 365 Billing

Office 365 Reseller

Online Marketplace

Optional Product Pricing

P

Partner Management

Personalized Customer Experience (PCX)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PQL-To-Customer Rate

Product Catalog Optimization

Product Line Pricing

Product Qualified Lead (PQL)

Q

R

Real-time Data Visualization

Recurring Billing

Red Hat Marketplace

Reseller Management

Revenue Optimization

Revenue Run Rate

S

SaaS Business Model

SaaS Catalog Management

SaaS Distribution

SaaS Marketplace

SaaS Payment Processing

SaaS Quick Ratio

Serviceable Available Market (SAM)

Software as a service (SaaS)

Software Distribution Platform

Software Ecosystem

Software Reseller

Software Vendor

Subscription Billing

Subscription Commerce

Subscription Ecommerce Platform

Subscription Management

T

Time to Value (TTV)

Total Contract Value (TCV)

U

Usage-Based Billing (UBB)

V

Value-Added Reseller (VAR)

W

White Label Cloud Service

White Label Marketplace Software

White Label Platform

White Label Reseller

White Label SaaS

White Label Software

Willingness to Pay (WTP)

Windows as a Service (WaaS)

X

XaaS (Everything as a Service)

Y

Z

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