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Cloud Cost and Value Optmisation

Reducing waste. Strengthening control. Linking cost to value.

70%

of companies can’t measure value from their cloud investments

27%

of cloud spend is just wasted full stop

84%

of companies say that managing cloud spend is a top challenge

Quick win tactical savings that pay for strategic operational change

What we do

With such large proportions of cloud spend being wasted, managing cloud spend and measuring value from cloud investments remains a huge challenge.

Our three-part approach:

1. Cost Allocation Audit Report

We identify your tagging quality and the data issues that need to be fixed to accurately assign accountabilities for cloud spend. This enables accurate forecasting, budgeting and chargeback.

2. Cost Optimisation Opportunity Report and FinOps Maturity Assessment

We identify inefficiency in your cloud estate, suggest how to remedy it and where you can develop broader FinOps capabilities that enhance the value you take from your cloud investment.

3. KPI Dashboard for Key Persons

We create simple, hard-hitting KPI dashboards that enable leaders to sponsor cost management behaviour change by focusing on only the simplest and biggest levers.

What we do

With such large proportions of cloud spend being wasted, managing cloud spend and measuring value from cloud investments remains a huge challenge.

Our three-part approach:

  1. Cost Allocation Audit Report

We identify your tagging quality and the data issues that need to be fixed to accurately assign accountabilities for cloud spend. This enables accurate forecasting, budgeting and chargeback.

2. Cost Optimisation Opportunity Report and FinOps Maturity Assessment

We identify inefficiency in your cloud estate (in £), suggest how to remedy it and where you can develop broader FinOps capabilities that enhance the value you take from your cloud investment.

3. KPI Dashboard for Key Persons

We create simple, hard-hitting KPI dashboards that enable leaders to sponsor cost management behaviour change by focusing on only the simplest and biggest levers.

We identify on average 37% cost savings

Our Impact

  • 37% Average Savings: Our software identifies many more cost-saving opportunities than our competitors.
  • Tailored Recommendations: Expert advice that considers all business dimensions, including commercial options and culture.
  • KPI Dashboards: Data-driven and tailored to support leaders to drive performance improvements.
  • Unique Cost Allocation Audits: Address tagging gaps to improve accountability and drive behavioural change.
  • Sustainability: Cut cloud waste to reduce your carbon footprint.
  • Collaboration: Enhance synergy between your finance, IT and business teams
  • Accurate Budgeting: Learn to forecast and manage cloud spend effectively so that cost issues do not re-emerge.

Our Impact

  • 37% Average Savings: Our software identifies many more cost-saving opportunities than our competitors.
  • Tailored Recommendations: Expert advice that considers all business dimensions, including commercial options and culture.
  • KPI Dashboards: Data-driven and tailored to support leaders to drive performance improvements.
  • Unique Cost Allocation Audits: Address tagging gaps to improve accountability and drive behavioural change.
  • Sustainability: Cut cloud waste to reduce your carbon footprint.
  • Collaboration: Enhance synergy between your finance, IT and business teams
  • Accurate Budgeting: Learn to forecast and manage cloud spend effectively so that cost issues do not re-emerge.
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Bringing spend transparency and an action plan without a need for long term commitment

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Richard Gott

Partner, Head of Clients and Markets

Client Story

Azure spend was running at £3m p.a. and doubling year-on-year

  • Growth in costs was disconnected to growth in customers and revenue, putting margin pressure on core SaaS business
  • Legacy migration decisions had resulted in proliferation of virtual machines, sub 5% utilisation and gold-plating
  • Consumption was vastly outstripping the commitment levels with Microsoft
  • Inconsistent application of tagging limited cost visibility and proactive spend governance

Efficiency review over current cloud consumption

  • Data-led review over consumption patterns to identify savings opportunities
  • Review key architectural decisions to identify inefficiency and modernisation opportunities
  • Mapped alignment between business and technical KPIs to identify over-engineering and gold-plating
  • Developed roadmap to deliver quick win savings opportunities, application modernisation opportunities and strengthen visibility and control
  • Developed 3 yr consumption forecast and procurement strategy to support Microsoft MACC renegotiation

Immediate £260K quick win cost savings, with further €1m+ savings identified through modernisation, reservations and contract renegotiation

  • Elimination of £100K in clean-up and £160K through auto-scheduling and resource shut-down to deliver rapid savings
  • Landing-zone remediation project optimised highly inefficient workloads to increase utilisation to 30-50% and realise another £500K in cost savings
  • Cost optimisation through reserved instances on newly optimised workloads saved a further £500K
  • Renegotiation of the Microsoft MACC agreement secured an additional 5% discount and £150K in new workload migration credits
  • Implementation of tagging and FinOps strategy enabled customer and application level Total Cost of Ownership and margin reporting

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