PA OXaaS APSv2 Deployment Guide
Deployment Guide for the OX as a Service APSv2 package into Parallels Automation
This guide describes the integration for the OX as a Service APSv2 package into Parallels Automation. This guide is intended for providers that use Parallels Automation and want to sell Open-Xchange services to customers.
Terms and Abbreviations
Below is the list of concepts and abbreviations you will find in this page.
| Abbreviation | Definition |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APS | Application Packaging Standard, an open standard that was designed to simplify the delivery of SaaS applications in the cloud-computing industry. |
| PA | Parallels Automation, which includes both POA and PBA. |
| PBA | Parallels Business Automation. |
| POA | Parallels Operations Automation. |
| SaaS | Software as a Service. |
Business Model Overview
About Open-Xchange
The standard business model of Open-Xchange consists of two major components: a platform fee and a revenue share. With the platform fee the customer pays the basic access to the hosted service or the software and it usually includes a certain amount of basic packages that are ideally distributed to a wide audience of users by bundling them into other products.
Open-Xchange Services Provided
Below is the list of resources provided by Open-Xchange:
| Resource Name | Resource Class | Limit | Auto-Provide |
| OX Globals | Application Service Reference | 1 | No |
| OX Brand | Application Service Reference | 1 | No |
| OX Profile Webmail | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| OX Profile Basic | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| OX Profile Advanced | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| OX Profile Pro | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| OX Shared Domain* | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| OX Shared Subdomain* | Application Service Reference | Unlimited | No |
| Parallels Business Automation | Application Service Reference | 1 | No |
| OX Tenant | Application Service | 1 | Yes |
| OX User | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Email Address | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Domain | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Purchase Request | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Group | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Subdomain | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Resource | Application Service | Unlimited | No |
| OX Storage Quota | Application Counter (KB) | Unlimited | No |
- You can add as many as necessary.
Integration Workflow
The integration workflow looks as follows:
DEPLOYMENT
Please refer to the Deployment Guide for more detailed information. This action is performed once and consists of: 1. Deploying Open-Xchange application endpoint. 2. Importing Open-Xchange application package. 3. Creating service instance in the Provider Control Panel.
PA INTEGRATION
1. Creating the required resource types. For further details, please refer to the Resource Creation section of this guide. 2. Creating the service template. For further details, please refer to the Service Template Creation section of this guide.