Services

Building Blocks for your FinOps Journey

Building Financial Business Cases, NPV-based TCO comparison (Migration vs No migration), Cost assessment of reference architecture, Projections of cost avoidance, Credits gained (cancelled contracts etc), Accrual P&L Analysis (EBITDA)

Cloud Economics

  • GenAI, Modernization and Contractual Business Cases

  • Cost assessment of solutioned architecture, cash-flow model,  projections of cost avoidance, credits gained.

  • Consumption Business Cases based on Contractual EDP’s

Time when cost avoidance in cash occurs. Cash flow forecasts for new cloud workloads, Projection of migration costs / "double bubble", Remediation of meta data gaps (labelling, tags, billing organizers), Technical responsible party designation

Building FinOps capabilities

  • Defined objectives & desired structure

  • Purpose-built FinOps and Cloud Financial Management capabilities implementation

  • Socialization + Training

  • AWS-Well Architected Cost-Optimization Pillar Implementation

Deployment & configuration of cost management platform (ie Cloudability, nOps, ProsperOps, CloudCheckr etc), Cost Anomaly Alerting, Frameworks for measuring consumption efficiency, Segmentation of optimization, CapEx / OpEx assessment

Cost Segmentation, Reporting and Visibility

  • Segmentation of Spend

  • Optimized configurations of cost management platforms

  • Remediation of meta data gaps (labelling, tags, billing organizers)

Implement best practices re: Software / tooling choice for use cases, Workload consolidation strategy, Workload scheduling, Rightsizing, Consumption trend analysis, Storage life cycles, Anomaly alerting, Database optimization

Technical and cost Efficiency

  • Implement best practices

  • Software / tooling choice for use cases

  • Workload consolidation strategy

  • Workload scheduling

  • Rightsizing

  • Consumption optimization

  • Vendor discount optimization

  • Migration business case

  • Value Assessment

Assessment of commitment based discount coverage EDP, (RIs, SPs, CUDs), Assessment of procurement & measurement process, Software license expense analysis, Spot or preemptable use

Courses

Forecasting capability tiers, Budgeting variance analysis, Budgeting governance, FinOps CCOE Building, Assist with identification of FinOps practitioners, Fully enable FinOps team Codification of the org's custom Finops best practices

Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting

  • Forecast variance analysis

  • Segment Forecasting