Eastwall Azure Cost & Commercial Optimization

The Azure Cost & Commercial Optimization (ACCO) engagement leverages Eastwall’s proven methodology to evaluate product application architecture, commercial cost models & organization/customer scale factors to build visibility into cost insights & models uniquely tuned for your business. We assess & analyze, build a cost optimization plan unique for your business, and outline the highest priority impacts for financial optimization.

If you are an independent software vendor (ISV) developing software for your end-customers, or an organization focused on reducing capital expenses across existing cloud sprawl, then the ACCO engagement with Eastwall is a fit for you. This six-week engagement is structured to be rapid, actionable & data-focused. Working alongside a highly certified Microsoft Cloud Architect and a business-focused Principal Consultant, Eastwall will support you to complete:

• Buildout of an Azure data ecosystem to ingest, model & report on Azure cloud data & supplemental cost inputs related to your highest priority customers & applications.

• Leverage Eastwall’s PowerBI reports & analytics to gain rapid, actionable insights on your customer/app ecosystem – or integrate with third-party cost tooling.

• Understand your business through workshops, stakeholder interviews & report reviews to build an actionable consensus and executive roadmap.

By reviewing current customer cost profiles, commercial agreements & costs of implementation, and operations Eastwall leverages real data to identify improved go-to-market commercial strategies, cost improvements and architecture enhancements for cloud software applications. You’ll receive critical business insights into cost-savings and profitability-enhancing measures in the form of the following deliverables:

• Azure-hosted data ecosystem for cost & app/customer-facing data sources

• PowerBI cloud-hosted paginated reports

• Technical & business backlog of architecture improvements and process improvements to reduce monthly cloud cost and improve profitability, outlined by priority & cost impact.

• Executive Presentation outlining engagement findings & next steps.

Engagement duration may be variable based on scope of assessment, team availability and outputs requested by your engagement team.

With a detailed technical assessment & go-forward plan, implemented solution, and a backlog of continued improvements, Eastwall helps leading organizations fortify their cloud approach brick by brick.