Bechtle is leveraging Netcracker’s comprehensive BSS solutions to support its new cloud-based portal and marketplace, which will host a range of digital enterprise applications for its business customers across Europe. This allows Bechtle to support consumption-based business models and open new revenue streams by offering multicloud services.

The use of Netcracker’s solutions allows Bechtle to support consumption-based business models and open new revenue streams by offering multicloud services. As a digital marketplace, the portal www.bechtle-clouds.com enables users to orchestrate various cloud services, drastically simplifying agreement, deployment and support processes. All services are invoiced transparently based on agreement duration or actual usage.

As one of Europe’s leading IT, infrastructure, hosting and B2B value-added system integrators and service providers, Bechtle offers comprehensive, vendor-neutral IT applications, infrastructure and operations services to more than 70,000 customers across the industrial, trade, financial and public sectors.

Netcracker’s comprehensive BSS capabilities, including cloud billing, will enable Bechtle to open new revenue streams by enabling the selling and billing of new cloud services that leverage consumption- or subscription-based models. In particular, Bechtle’s use of Netcracker’s Cloud Billing and Digital Marketplace solutions support the launch of new network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings, Bechtle’s backup-as-a-service and recovery-as-a-service offerings as well as third-party cloud services.

Bechtle is expanding its application and hosting portfolio of cloud services and infrastructure to provide diversity of choice, delivery, on-site and hosted applications and services to small, medium and large enterprises across Europe.