Patent ID: 8626891

Claim:
A method implemented by a computer system comprising: configuring a management-as-a-service (MaaS) connect process by a computer processor running at a MaaS provider, wherein the MaaS connect process is configured based on a request from a MaaS tenant; transmitting, via a network interface, the configured MaaS connect process to the MaaS tenant; providing one or more MaaS services from the MaaS provider to the MaaS tenant, wherein the provided MaaS services interact with the configured MaaS connect process installed at the MaaS tenant, and wherein the MaaS provider provides one or more MaaS service offerings; retrieving a capacity requirement corresponding to the one or more MaaS service offerings; matching a received list of one or more discovered tenant information technology (IT) elements with the one or more MaaS service offerings available from the MaaS provider; retrieving the capacity requirement corresponding to the one or more matched MaaS service offerings; receiving a capacity assessment of the tenant IT environment from the configured MaaS connect process; comparing the capacity requirement corresponding to the one or more matched MaaS service offerings to the received capacity assessment; and notifying the MaaS tenant in response to the comparison revealing that the capacity requirement corresponding to the one or more matched MaaS service offerings exceeds the received capacity assessment.