If your organisation currently pays $50,000 or more per annum for a cloud-based service with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) then let’s discuss how we can help you.

We are just as effective as helping clients whose IT is outsourced to 3rd party support organisations.

Unless you have been through specific cloud optimisation activities, it is likely that some of your cloud resources have been set up inefficiently. Example opportunities for optimisation include:

• Terminating orphan resources
• Resizing Azure VM instances from FS16v2 to FS4v2, if the utilisation is only 25% at peak workloads
• Review Database to rightsize and / or migrate
• Migrate from IaaS to PaaS
• Provide recommendations for better / cheaper options within PaaS

Our software will quickly identify these efficiency opportunities and deliver specific recommendations.

Whilst most organisations approach us once they realise how complex cloud cost management is, we are better positioned to help companies who are at the start of their cloud journey so that good foundations are put in place and expensive mistakes are avoided.

Our maturity assessment and capability roadmap will also help any organisation that procures cloud services, even if that procurement is managed on their behalf by a 3rd party. We will work with your IT partners to support them in reducing your costs.

No. 

You will simply provide us with read-only access to your Azure / AWS / GCP environment. 

Optimus will then provide it’s analysis recommendations based on the following data:

• Metadata and configuration
• Cost management, reservations and billing metrics
• Network flow logs

This means we don’t access any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data and there is no intrusive application access.

1. After a conversation to determine suitability, we start off by setting you up on the free trial, using our Optimus software. This will interrogate your cloud consumption data and we will run 2 or 3 use cases that typically identify significant cost savings. We present these cost reduction opportunities back to you and you can decide if you want to become a client
2. Once signed up, we will complete the Optimus set up, run the full range of cost reduction use cases, and present back a detailed report on available cost savings.
3. Optimus learning modules will enable your teams to run cost saving / optimisation on an ongoing basis so that you stay efficient
4. Our KPI dashboards are now populated in Optimus and the tool can be used by leadership to drive transparency and efficiency of cloud spend across your organisation.
5. Our clients are free to join our twice monthly online discussion groups, or watch the recordings back in their own time.
6. Clients are given access to the Community App so that they can ask questions and learn from peers (and the Finaptiv team)
7. Around 2 months after sign up, we will run a cloud financial management maturity assessment on your organisation. This is an interview based review, supported by the data in Optimus. We interview a broad range of stakeholders and present back a detailed maturity report and an actionable roadmap for the next 12 months. Delivering this roadmap will enable you to track and monitor technology spend, forecast and budget better, charge tech spend to the right teams, and buy cloud services more efficiently.
8. Throughout the partnership, our goal is to support you to become self-sufficient in IT cost management, but we are always on hand to support and you can expect to build strong working relationships with our team.

For our full service (as outlined above, “Our Solution”), we charge 1% of your annual cloud consumption cost, with a minimum spend of £6k per annum.

We think this is an outstanding value. And remember:

• Our free trial typically identifies opportunities to reduce your cloud costs by 3-5%.
• If we can’t identify savings that are at least 2x our annual fee, we will give you a full refund.

Unlike our SaaS competitors, our software gives our clients specific recommendations and they also get access to deep expertise and insight from experienced cloud practitioners.

As soon as Optimus has run the analysis on your cloud environment, there will be opportunities to deliver efficiencies and reduce costs.

We provide actionable recommendations, which range from short-term quick wins (which can be implemented within hours), to medium to long term recommendations, depending on the complexity. All of our recommendations will be discussed with your solution architects and business teams to ensure both validity and viability.

In terms of increasing organisational maturity on cloud cost management, tangible benefits will be seen from around 3 months after sign up, as you implement your capability improvement roadmap. Example benefits of delivering this roadmap:

• Create transparency of cloud costs that enables leadership to drive behaviour change to reduce wasted spend, and put accountability for good practices onto the relevant teams.
• Track and monitor cloud spend at a granular level, understanding which teams are responsible for what proportion of cloud spend and being able to charge them accordingly.
• Learn to forecast your cloud spend accurately and budget appropriately.
• React quickly to anomalous spikes in cloud consumption (and associated costs), making sure that issues are quickly rectified and do not repeat.
• Understand how technology costs impact the profitability of products or different parts of your business in different ways.
• Upskill your team to master and take advantage of the “new normal” of complex technology OPEX spend. This includes creating new collaborations within the organisation between finance, product and IT teams that drive culture change to manage cloud (and all technology) efficiently.
• Enable the firm to buy cloud and technology services more efficiently, and with greater confidence.
• Optimise (reduce) cloud and technology costs as a BAU way of working.

For the free trial, you will need to give us read-only access to the Azure / AWS / GCP environment and our software, Optimus, will run a reduced number of tests (use cases) on that data to identify opportunities for cost reduction.

An example of a test is using Optimus to identify unused cloud resources across your IT estate.

We will present a specific recommendations plan, which will include quick-wins that typically produce 3-5% savings on your cloud costs.

Yes!

If we cannot provide very specific, actionable (within 12 months) savings that add up to at least 2x your annual fee, then we will fully refund your fees.