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# Creating the service template. For further details, please refer to the Service Template Creation section of this guide. | # Creating the service template. For further details, please refer to the Service Template Creation section of this guide. | ||
== Localization List == | |||
Open-Xchange has been localized in the following languages for each category: | |||
* Customer Interface: English | |||
* PA task manager error logging: English | |||
* Open-Xchange API error messaging: English | |||
== Technical Overview == | |||
This section contains an outline of how the integration of Open-Xchange and PA is performed and the list of Open-Xchange features that are supported within the integration package. | |||
=== General Architecture === | |||
The following scheme represents the architecture of POA and Open-Xchange integration: | |||
TO BE ADD - ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM | |||
==== Components ==== | |||
The following table shows the main actions offered by the APS through the different panels of PA. | |||
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|'''Components''' | |||
|'''Actions''' | |||
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|Parallels Admin | |||
|* Import APS package. | |||
* Create an APS instance. | |||
* Manage application settings: | |||
** CRUD tasks to automatize report creation. | |||
** CRUD brands. | |||
** Edit OX App Suite branding settings. | |||
** Download reports. | |||
** CRUD shared domains / subdomains. | |||
** CRUD profiles. | |||
|- | |||
|Parallels Customer Manager | |||
|* Buy subscriptions. | |||
* View resource usage. | |||
* Buy more profiles (in app purchase). | |||
* Create service users. | |||
* Enable / Disable OX App Suite for a service user. | |||
* Add email aliases to an existing user of OX App Suite. | |||
* Change profile of an existing OX App Suite user. | |||
* View mailbox and storage usage per user. | |||
* CRUD user groups. | |||
* CRUD resources. | |||
* CRUD domains / subdomains. | |||
* Configure catch all for existing domains. | |||
* View all users’ purchase requests. | |||
|- | |||
|Parallels Service User | |||
|* View profile features. | |||
* Go to OX App Suite. | |||
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|} | |||
Revision as of 10:43, 5 May 2015
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:
- Deploying Open-Xchange application endpoint.
- Importing Open-Xchange application package.
- Creating service instance in the Provider Control Panel.
PA Integration
- Creating the required resource types. For further details, please refer to the Resource Creation section of this guide.
- Creating the service template. For further details, please refer to the Service Template Creation section of this guide.
Localization List
Open-Xchange has been localized in the following languages for each category:
- Customer Interface: English
- PA task manager error logging: English
- Open-Xchange API error messaging: English
Technical Overview
This section contains an outline of how the integration of Open-Xchange and PA is performed and the list of Open-Xchange features that are supported within the integration package.
General Architecture
The following scheme represents the architecture of POA and Open-Xchange integration:
TO BE ADD - ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
Components
The following table shows the main actions offered by the APS through the different panels of PA.
| Components | Actions |
| Parallels Admin | * Import APS package.
|
| Parallels Customer Manager | * Buy subscriptions.
|
| Parallels Service User | * View profile features.
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