--- title: Billing from the Clouds - Another First!! description: Imagine your business system did not require any hardware, it was available 24x7 and all you paid for was the service you required. 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It could scale from 100 to 100 000 customers and back down again in minutes! Best of all you only pay for the CPU and capacity you require at the time. This is the promise that cloud computing brings to business applications. Introducing SOLIDitech's **SOLID BC2** platform - a completely virtualized billing system built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The SOLID BC2 outsourced billing solution includes customized computing resources tailored to your needs, automated billing, CRM and ERP functionality with real time backups and automated failover. In a completely virtualized environment you can deploy additional capacity in minutes and never have to think of buying hardware again. With SOLID BC2, next generation billing is here today! At SOLIDitech our engineers are always at the forefront of technology - innovators in the world of affordable, reliable business solutions. Every cloud might not have a silver lining, but SOLID's Billing on a Compute Cloud certainly does! **SOLIDitech - Automate your business!** ** [Billing](https://blog.soliditech.com/blog/topic/billing) [** SOLIDitech featured in African Communications ](https://blog.soliditech.com/blog/soliditech-featured-in-african-communications) [** We're bringing business automation to Johannesburg ](https://blog.soliditech.com/were-bringing-business-automation-to-johannesburg) ### About Author ![Annette Gardner](https://blog.soliditech.com/hubfs/Annette-Gardner-Marketing-Manager.png) Annette Gardner I’m a Marketing lover that believes in affecting inbound marketing with great content and beautiful design. I also love Pizza and Coffee - in no particular order. 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