WHY FINOPS

Azure cloud is the way to savings, freeing up hands, flexibility, integration, and leveraging the new opportunities that your company needs to compete today.

Many fear that the cloud is expensive and without the right tools, focus, and processes, you may miss out on savings and optimization opportunities.

There is a solution – Microsoft provides a set of excellent tools that, when used by the right people in the right way, ensure that you get the right price and ongoing cost optimization for the cloud. These tools need to be combined with knowledge, processes, and standards for involving the right people in the FinOps task within the organization.

HOW

Our Building FinOps Capabilities program gets you started – with both inspiration and practical assistance to get started on the right foot.

We have worked with best practices, roles, and processes defined by the FinOps Foundation, and especially the tools provided by Microsoft in Azure, to ensure the right technical and competency foundation. This helps you ensure that you are not overpaying for Azure servers and services.

We set up tools and portals with you and show you what is possible with Microsoft Azure tools. Then, we review your current Microsoft Azure platform and provide a comprehensive assessment of how ready your organization is for the FinOps discipline. We also offer recommendations on how to be 100% prepared to ensure the right Azure costs.

Additionally, we help you establish an understanding of the roles, responsibilities and tools involved, and match it with your teams/organizations.

The program is delivered as three workshops.

The workshops will include:

• Thorough introduction to FinOps and Microsoft Cost Management, including a live demo of Azure Copilot in Cost Management (when available).
• Exploration of scenarios where FinOps can add value.
• Identification of current use of relevant tools, including current applications.
• Identification of roles, responsibilities and jobs-to-be-done within FinOps.
• Education on FinOps principles, domains, maturity model, capabilities and three phased iterative lifecycles.
• Identification of any additional project tasks related to implementation
• Introduction to best practices for organizational deployment of FinOps

VALUE

FinOps helps you establish best practice across teams and roles, to start saving and maximizing value from cloud.

Organizational and cultural

• Clear understanding of phases, roles, domains, principles and desired culture.
• Alignment with your current organization to get going right away.

Tools and processes

• Understanding of FinOps tool, practices and processes.
• Increased visibility into cloud cost.
• Understanding of cloud usage- and rate- optimization.
• Prioritized list of FinOps practice improvement areas.

Improved practice

• Relevant key findings are implemented/adjusted/enabled.
• Even more optimizations through recommendations within culture, maturity, capabilities and principles.
• Best practice and guides to improve practice and build new capabilities.