Charm Partner Programme welcomes Opencell

Canonical is excited to announce that Opencell has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based applications ready to be used on most public and private clouds, as well as bare metal servers.

Opencell is a carrier grade open source billing solution, which includes mediation, prepaid and postpaid rating, invoicing, AR management and reporting. They will initially be charming their enterprise edition for inclusion in the Juju Charm Store.  An early version of  the Juju enabled Opencell will be shown at TAD Summit in Lisbon this week.

“Joining CPP and providing a Juju enabled version of the Opencell billing solution is a great step forward in our strategy to make it easier for our clients to integrate our open source billing application and provide true scalability on public, private and bare metal clouds,” commented David Meyer, Opencell’s CEO.

“Opencell is a robust and comprehensive billing solution, and we are excited to welcome them to our Cloud Ecosystem. As the first open source billing solution to be made available on Microsoft Azure, they further extend the flexibility and freedom from vendor lock in, offered to Juju users,” said Stefan Johannson, Global Director of Software Alliances at Canonical.

To learn more about Canonical’s partner programmes, including the Charm Partner Programme,please visit http://partners.ubuntu.com/.