A reseller is a user or user groups who can operate multiple tenant environments. The service provider can assign one or more resellers as the tenant operator for a company. The reseller can switch to any of their assigned tenant environment and operate on the company as a tenant user.
Using a reseller to manage companies, provides the following benefits:
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Reduce the dependency on the service provider. The reseller has the ability to access a tenant and manage operations and billing for the tenant.
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Expand cloud services, by offering resellers capability to manage a set of tenants.
Terminology
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Reseller - User or user group who is configured as the operator for different companies.
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Operator - The reseller user associated with a company.
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Tenant Operator user group - A system-created user group for every company. All tenant operators for the company are added to this group and inherit the role associated with this group.
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Tenant operator role - The default system-created role that is assigned to the tenant operator user group for a company.