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Billing kdb Insights Enterprise through Azure

Once you decide to buy kdb Insights Enterprise you must create and configure your account on our transactable SaaS Billing offer. This offer is only used to bill your kdb Insights Enterprise instances.

Note

You will see in your invoices that the Billing offer is billed for the agreed KX License amount, whereas the kdb Insights Enterprise instance will only have infrastructure costs. This allows you to recreate your kdb Insights Enterprise instance whenever you want and we will still be able to generate KX License bills through the Billing offer.

Our offer is MACC (Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment) eligible, meaning it will contribute to your Azure consumption commitment benefit.

Prerequisites

Before creating a Billing Offer you need the following:

  • Access to the SaaS Billing offer webpage

  • Permissions to access or create a resource group

  • Permissions to create and subscribe to an Azure SaaS offer

Create transactable Billing Offer

In the following steps you will create a Billing offer.

  1. Go to Azure Marketplace.

  2. Search for Managed kdb Insights Enterprise License. Click on the offer.

    Marketplace offer

  3. Read the Overview, Plans + Pricing and Usage Information + Support page. You can also come back here to provide a rating if you would like to.

  4. Select your plan and click Subscribe.

    Marketplace plan

  5. Select the azure subscription and resource group where the Billing offer should be stored.

    Marketplace plan creation

    • We recommend that you create one resource group dedicated for all your KX Billing offers. The name of the resource group can be anything.

    • The name of the KX Billing offer can also be anything. However, since this SaaS offer is used to bill a kdb Insights Enterprise instance we recommend naming your SaaS offer something that resembles the name of the kdb Insights Enterprise instance.

  6. Select your preferred Billing term and Price + payment frequency if you have multiple options available.

  7. Select Recurring Billing if you want to auto-renew your offer once the Billing term has expired.
  8. Go to Tags. Configure tags as needed based on your policies.
  9. Go to Review + Subscribe. Review your offer then click Subscribe.

Configure your account

Once you have created your KX License Billing offer on Azure, you will need to configure your Account.

Note

The following steps will take you to our Licensing portal. If opening of third party websites is blocked on the machine you are using to log in to Azure, you will need to ensure opening of this website is allowed before you can complete these steps.

Warning

You must complete the following process in 30 days, otherwise the KX License Billing offer will be deleted.

Navigate to the landing page

First, navigate to the Client Landing Page of KX.

There are multiple options to do this:

- Option 1:

When the Billing offer is created, if you click Configure account now you will be taken to the landing page.

Navigate to the landing page 1

- Option 2:

Go to your Billing offer on Azure and click Configure account now or Open SaaS Account on publisher's site if the account is already configured.

Navigate to the landing page 2

- Option 3:

Follow this link: Licensing portal

Grant consent to KX Landing Page

When you sign in on our landing page for the first time, our application will require consent to access user data (User.Read scope). Approving it allows us to identify you.

Grant Consent

Admin consent to KX Landing Page

By default, any user can consent to this scope, but the permissions required to consent will depend on your Azure Tenant Policies. In some cases, only an Admin user has the appropriate access:

Grant Admin Consent

If admin rights are required to consent, you will need to reach out to a person with one of the following roles: Global Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator

An administrator can either:

  1. Allow users to consent for apps from verified publishers and mark User.Read scope to be low impact
  2. Configure admin consent workflow
  3. Grant tenant-wide admin consent
  4. Grant consent on behalf of a user

KX license subscription

Once you navigate to the landing page by clicking Configure Account Now, you will need to fill in your contact details - most will be pre-populated and all fields are required.

Activate Account

  1. Click on View License Details and review your details

    License Details

  2. Click Activate License

    Note

    If you navigated to the landing page directly, you can see your license under KX Licenses. You can activate it by clicking Activate on the Action menu.

  3. Once the Activation has been acknowledged the webpage will inform you that the request is being processed and direct you to the Subscriptions List where you can see the status of your license subscriptions.

    License Activated