HCLTech Azure & Hybrid FinOps Matruity: 8-wk Assessment

Overview

Azure-Hybrid FinOps Maturity Assessment is based around the FinOps Foundation principles and 5 key domains. The Maturity Assessment focuses on deep understanding into customer’s cloud environment through a FinOps Practitioner led approach to capture details about the architecture, design, resources, culture, and services used, to identify gaps and suggest on how one can improve their FinOps Maturity in future.

Description

Azure-Hybrid FinOps Maturity Assessment is developed over years of practice and experience by our certified pool of FinOps Practitioners.

Our Hybrid Cloud FinOps practice has 3 key iterative stages:

1. Inform,
2. Optimize
3. Govern (in-line with FinOps Foundation).

The assessment focuses on key lenses of Knowledge, Process, Metrics, Adoption and Automation focusing across 5 Domains laid out by FinOps Foundation i.e.

1. Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost (Inform Stage),
2. Performance Tracking, Benchmarking & Decision Making (Inform),
3. Cloud Rate Optimization (Optimize),
4. Cloud Usage Optimization (Govern) and
5. Organizational Alignment (Govern).

Assessment Steps:

The Hybrid FinOps Maturity Assessment follows a 3 steps (EIQ) Framework:

1. Engage: Stage to identify key stakeholders and conduct a workshop to capture details about the cloud infrastructure
2. Investigate: Investigate all aspects of people, processes and tooling through the captured data and generate domain and capability scores to align each domain with Crawl, Walk or Run phase
3. Quantify: Measuring the captured data showcase maturity dashboards, identify key gap areas for improvement, and provide roadmap recommendations via regular cadence calls.

The Outcome of the assessment is a Maturity Index report in Power BI dashboard, Brief Presentation, Detailed Documentation, and Monthly Cadence Calls for roadmap.

The Hybrid FinOps Maturity Assessment is targeted towards customers who wish to build an in-house FinOps practice, seek granular visibility and understand their FinOps Maturity in terms of Crawl, Walk or Run.

The assessment can be conducted remotely as well as though physical workshops, and minimum duration is of 8 to 10 weeks.