The CloudBroker AppCenter is a web-based with the goal to provide software products in a accessible way.

1. CloudBroker AppCenter Overview
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2. CloudBroker AppCenter: General Overview
The CloudBroker AppCenter is a web-based one-stop-shop solution with the goal
to provide software products and services by software vendors to end users. For
this the AppCenter:
• Stores information about software products in an accessible way.
• Provides usage scenarios for the software.
• Takes upon itself billing functionality that includes price setting, payment
integration, keeping track of users’ spending, etc.
• Simplifies the process of using software and paying for it.
• Allows software vendors to easily include billing functionality into their
applications and to start making revenue out of their applications by just a few
clicks.
• For the software end users, the AppCenter represents a single point of entry
towards the different applications and technologies available, and a simple
way to access, purchase and perform the corresponding simulations.
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3. CloudBroker AppCenter Objectives
(M&E SME Perspective)
• General information
• Tutorials
• Guidelines
• manuals
Overview of simulation
solutions and
information about it
•Directly run simulations from the shop on a pay per use basis
•Run simulations from the shop on triggering a web service
•Purchase software on the shop to download and then directly
run it on the cloud or locally
Shop to buy
simulations in a great
variety
• Training
• Consulting
Order value added
services to the
simulations
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The CloudBroker AppCenter provides everything manufacturing or engineering SME
needs to improve its innovation capacity through simulation:

4. CloudBroker AppCenter Objectives
(Simulation Software Vendor Perspective)
•Direct execution from the one-stop-shop
•Execution through cloud service (CloudBroker Platform)
•Execution through own web service
•Download of vendor software (with or without integrated execution
on cloud platform)
Self-deployment of simulation
software (or access to
simulation software service)
• Software page customization
• Software description providing
• Manuals, training materials providing
Self-management of
information about simulation
software
•Tutorials
•Trainings
•Consulting
Value-adding services offerings
•Per single usage
•Per time (e.g. second, minute, runtime hour)
•Subscription model (e.g. per month)
•Coupling to the CloudBroker Platform charges
Self-determination of pricing
methods
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The CloudBroker AppCenter provides a range of functionality for simulation software
vendors to deploy and provide their simulation software to M&E SMEs:

5. CloudSME Technology: Conceptual Overview
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The CloudBroker AppCenter is a technology to support business models within
the CloudSME project. The overall CloudSME architecture is given below:

6. CloudBroker AppCenter: User capabilities
Depending on the user roles, the AppCenter users can perform different
activities. In general, the activities can be divided according to the roles as
follows:
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• Publish software
• Generate revenues for software usage
• Purchase and use software published by
other vendors
Software
Vendors
• Purchase and use software published by
vendors
Software End
Users

7. Software End Users: Getting Started Guide
• To be able to purchase and use software from the CloudBroker AppCenter,
each user needs to be registered. To learn the registration details please
see the CloudBroker AppCenter Getting Started Guide. The same guide
contains the detailed description of the actions that can be performed by
the users of the AppCenter.
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8. Software Vendors: Getting Started Guides
• Software vendors can publish their software in the AppCenter to generate
revenues for the software usage. Please consult the CloudBroker
AppCenter Software Publishing Guide to find out how to publish your
software.
• In some cases software vendors would like to integrate the CloudBroker
AppCenter with the CloudBroker Platform to run cloud applications
directly from the AppCenter. Please consult the CloudBroker AppCenter
and CloudBroker Platform Integration Guide to find out detailed
information about the integration and how it can be performed.
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9. Revenue Generation
The CloudBroker AppCenter can be used to generate revenues for software
usage.
• To generate revenues software vendors need to specify particular billing
settings for their software. To find out the billing details, please consult
the CloudBroker AppCenter Billing Guide.
This guide describes the billing process available in the AppCenter, including:
• Billing options.
• Payment options.
• Pricing specification by vendors.
• Billing process in case of AppCenter - CloudBroker Platform integration.
• Payment split.
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10. Enabling CloudBroker AppCenter from API
• To steer the CloudBroker AppCenter from an external client or
application programming interface (API), REST-based web
service API can be used.
• REST-based web service API allows vendors to do almost all
the actions that are available from the web browser interface.
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