Zuora, subscription billing solutions provider, and Citrix, remote access and web conferencing software provider, announced today a partnership to extend the capabilities of Citrix's CloudPortal Services Manager. Citrix CloudPortal allows cloud providers and their customers to quickly and easily provision new apps, desktops and other services from a simple to use, all-in-one web console. Meanwhile, Zuora's industry leading Z-Commerce for the Cloud solution will integrate seamlessly with CloudPortal Services Manager to provide a powerful billing and payment platform that allows cloud service providers to quickly monetize and grow their cloud services.
At a recent Zuora sponsored luncheon at Butterfly restaurant in SF – CEO, Tien Tzuo shared with the packed crowd that to him, the world of billing/payment has become the financial infrastructure for the new customer centered/ pay-as-you-go pricing model he calls – the subscription economy.
Zuora, the subscription billing leader, today announced that Tyler Sloat, has joined Zuora as Chief Financial Officer. Sloat brings strong financial experience in securing capital and growing market leaders in both mobile payments and storage and cloud computing, including raising over $100 million for Obopay.


