Managing cloud costs is complex, with IT, finance, and procurement working in silos, leading to inefficiencies, budget overruns, and a lack of transparency. Conflicting billing models and provider interests add to the challenge.
Our FinOps Service unites stakeholders to create clarity, optimize resources, and control costs. Using a structured, recurring approach — Inform, Optimize, Operate — we ensure ongoing transparency and long-term financial management, helping you unlock value, reduce costs, and ensure sustainability.
As part of our FinOps Service, our M365 Reports provide in-depth insights into your cloud expenditures and resource usage, helping you manage and optimize your Microsoft cloud environment effectively. These reports cover Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Visio, Project, and Power BI, ensuring you have a comprehensive view of all user licenses and resources.
With detailed cost and usage analyses, we can identify inefficiencies, uncover optimization opportunities, and make data-driven decisions to reduce unnecessary expenses. The reports also provide forecasting and tailored recommendations, helping you allocate resources more effectively and ensure long-term cost savings.
A key feature of our M365 Reports is the integration of M365 GreenOps, a unique solution on the market that provides a detailed carbon footprint analysis of your Microsoft 365 users. This enables you to understand the environmental impact of your cloud resources and take proactive steps toward more sustainable IT operations.
By implementing our exclusive, data-driven recommendations, you can reduce energy consumption, lower emissions, and align your cloud strategy with your ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) goals—setting your organization apart in sustainability efforts.
Our service relies on the effective collaboration of all relevant roles and teams, the FinOps Personas. These are crucial for creating transparency, defining responsibilities clearly and making informed decisions.
We assist you in establishing clear processes and responsibilities, ensuring that all stakeholders, from finance teams to technical departments and management, can work together efficiently. Using a best practice approach, we make sure that relevant data, metrics, and insights are easily accessible and understandable, enabling informed decision-making.
Our approach lays the foundation for all FinOps personas to operate successfully, ensuring that your company aligns long-term with transparent, cost-conscious, and resource-efficient cloud usage.
For M365, the financial ROI starts immediately by freeing up spare licenses and reallocating them to new users, with bigger changes possible at the anniversary cycle. In Public Cloud, we can start right away with optimizations for quick cost savings.
Beyond financial benefits, FinOps also enhances your organization’s structure, management, and process efficiency, helping you manage cloud spend more effectively and align it with your goals. 💸⚡
For M365, it's always delivered with our tool, as the logic is unique to the market. When it comes to Azure, we're open to using existing tools or we can continue to work directly with the capabilities in the Azure Portal. Additionally, we’re planning to roll out an Azure FinOps Dashboard soon! 🔧
We work using the Scrumban method, which combines the flexibility of Scrum and Kanban. When closing a sprint, we assess success by reviewing the closed sprints and evaluating the outcomes of cost optimization efforts during a defined period of time. Success is measured by how quickly we can adapt to changes and deliver measurable cost optimizations while keeping everything on track! 🚀📈
This really depends on your infrastructure and the focus—whether it's on users or infrastructure. Thanks to Scrumban, we can collaboratively plan activities and define the right optimizations that suit your specific needs. For both M365 user subscriptions and Azure, we’ll focus on optimizing license usage, adjusting subscription types, and ensuring you're not overpaying for unused or unnecessary services. 💡
FinOps is never a one-time fix—it's an ongoing process. Microsoft continuously updates its policies, products, and benefits, so we must adapt to those changes. Plus, we actively manage commitments and continuously refine the optimization processes. Our maturity model follows a crawl, walk, run approach, so we can gradually scale from initial implementation to full optimization and maturity, ensuring long-term success and adaptability. 🔧📊
