PHASE 1 – SETUP & IMPLEMENTATION
Each ‘Phase’ is broken into multiple ‘Stages’ which can be tailored to the customers needs.
PHASE 1 – SETUP & IMPLEMENTATION: One off fixed cost engagement to implement the correct tools, standards and process’s for accurate cost visibility, optimisation and automated governance.
Benefits:
- Report on and understand your cloud costs accurately to a granular level
- Provide Cost visibility to teams and stakeholders that consume Cloud
- Understand trends, forecast your spend
- Through governance, greatly reduce risk of monthly cloud cost ‘bill shock’
- Allow central IT to recover costs
- Through cloud ‘tagging’ establish a accurate CMDB for the cloud.
How we do it:
It all starts with the correct standards, we introduce:
- Multi-cloud tagging standards – to standardise across your platforms
- ‘Tag or terminate’ policy – to enforce your polices through code
- Cloud infrastructure CMDB – to meet ITIL requirements
We let you understand and use the correct Subscription model pricing:
- Leverage enterprise agreements pricing
- Leverage MSDN pricing secrets
We bring, best of breed tools:
- The best tools and process’s as learnt from industry experience and Gartner comparisons.
We setup:
- Customised cost centre reporting – across multiple supported cloud environments
- Chargeback procedures – IT receives the bill, you chargeback accurately to your customers/business units and recover your costs
- Custom billing alerts to stop end of month ‘bill shock’
Bottom line, we allow you to gain visibility and accurately report on your cloud costs.
We deliver this through a 5 stage process:
Stage 1 – Discovery: a workshop to help identify current state
Stage 2 – Define and engage
Stage 3 – Execute
Stage 4 – Customer platform training
Stage 5 – Cost reduction strategy workshop
