PA OXaaS APSv2 Deployment Guide

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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: