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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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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

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Annual Contract Value (ACV)

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)

Application Management Services (AMS)

Application Marketplace

Application Migration

Application Programming Interface (API)

AARRR (Pirate Metrics)

Assisted Selling

Automated Provisioning

Average Customer Life (ACL)

Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)

Average Selling Price (ASP)

AWS Marketplace

AWS Partner Network (APN)

Azure Marketplace

B

C

Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue (CMRR)

Communication Service Provider (CSP)

Compliance as a Service (CaaS)

Configure Price Quote (CPQ)

Connected Devices Platform

Content as a Service (CaaS)

Contextual Engagement

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)

Contract Management

Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue (CARR)

Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue

Contribution Margin Ratio (CMR)

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)

Cost Per Lead (CPL)

Cost per Mille (CPM)

CRM Billing System

CTO as a Service (CTOaaS)

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

Customer Experience (CX)

Customer Journey

Customer Lifecycle

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV or CLV)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Customer Retention

Customer Retention Cost (CRC)

Customer Retention Rate (CRR)

Customer Winback

Cybersecurity as a Service (CSaaS)

D

E

Economy Pricing

Encrypted Search

Enterprise Commerce

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Everything as a Service (XaaS)

Environment as a Service (EaaS)

F

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Forcing Function

G

Google Cloud Marketplace

Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy

Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP)

Gross Dollar Retention

Gross Retention

Gross Revenue Retention (GRR)

H

Hardware as a Service (HWaaS)

Headless Commerce

Hosted Application

Hyperscaler Marketplace

I

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Infrastructure Operations

Integration as a Service (IaaS)

Intellectual Property (IP)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Involuntary Churn

IoT Marketplace

IT as a Service (ITaaS)

J

K

L

Lead Velocity Rate (LVR)

Lifetime Value (LTV)

Listing Management

M

N

Net Dollar Retention (NDR)

Net Promoter Score (NPS)

Net Revenue Retention (NRR)

O

Odd Even Pricing

Offer Management

Office 365 Billing

Office 365 Reseller

Online Marketplace

Operational Level Agreement (OLA)

Optional Product Pricing

P

Q

Quote-to-Cash (Q2C / QTC)

R

Real-time Data Visualization

Recurring Billing

Recurring Revenue

Red Hat Marketplace

Reporting & Analytics

Reseller Management

Reseller Platform

Revenue Optimization

Revenue Run Rate

Revenue Sharing

Review Management

S

T

Technical Services

Time to Market (TTM/T2M)

Time to Value (TTV)

Total Contract Value (TCV)

Transportation as a Service (TaaS)

U

Usage-based Billing (UBB)

Usage-based Pricing

User Management

V

Value-Added Reseller (VAR)

Value Realization

Vendor Management

W

Website as a Service (WaaS)

White Label Cloud Service

White Label Marketing

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)

Workplace as a Service (WaaS)

X

XaaS (Everything as a Service)

Y

Z

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