{"id":181472,"date":"2025-10-01T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181472\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:26:07","slug":"crayon-rolls-out-updated-cloud-iq-platform-arn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/181472\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayon rolls out updated Cloud-iQ platform \u2013 ARN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crayon has updated its Cloud-iQ platform, dubbing it the \u201cnext generation\u201d of the service, for cloud service licensing and management.<\/p>\n<p>It was developed to assist partners with the buying, managing and optimisation of cloud services from providers such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Adobe.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version has been moulded from \u201cyears of partner feedback and proprietary research and development,\u201d according to the distributor, which includes a streamlined user interface and analytics, an enhanced billing engine and integration with Microsoft Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud-iQ is set to be the company\u2019s default platform experience as of 30 September, with pre-existing capabilities remaining available with no increase in total cost of ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The platform was built with partner needs and customers at its core, said Larrie Clark, chief technology officer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arnnet.com.au\/article\/4016439\/softwareone-completes-mega-billion-dollar-acquisition-of-crayon.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SoftwareOne \u2014 which finished its acquisition of Crayon in July<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that, for example, forecasting and spend prediction were key for them, and embedded our cost optimisation DNA into it through a predictive cost optimisation and real-time usage intelligence section under insights,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crayon has updated its Cloud-iQ platform, dubbing it the \u201cnext generation\u201d of the service, for cloud service licensing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-181472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}