Cloud Financial Management

Improve the economics of your cloud investments

Advance Your FinOps Capabilities

Public cloud usage is now a key driver of business growth — and a dominant component of enterprise tech spend. Tech budgets face increased financial scrutiny, leading to a rise in the adoption of cloud financial management and FinOps practices. These practices help organizations deal with the instant, decentralized, consumption-based spend model of public cloud. With cloud cost management & optimization and cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions, Apptio helps businesses maximize the value of their technology investments.

30%

Through 2023, in the absence of rightsizing discipline, over 30% of growing expenditure on software and cloud services will be unused.
– Gartner

FinOps: Financial Governance for Cloud

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FinOps is a set of principles, processes, and tools that drive cross-functional collaboration so business leaders can make informed decisions that maximize cloud value.

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Learn how to enhance business value from cloud spend with a deeper understanding of FinOps.

FinOps Certification

Cloud Financial Management Enables Organizations to...

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FinOps Phases

Allocate 100% of cloud costs and integrate third-party data for a full TCO roll-up.

Track component costs against business outcomes and establish unit economic trends for key products to maximize the value of technology investments.

Supercharge cost savings and reduce manual effort by pushing automated actionable rate and usage optimizations to engineers and FinOps experts.

IBM Cloudability: A Best-in-Class FinOps Tool

We’ve got better insights into what is driving application and infrastructure costs than we’ve had before. That allows us to make better decisions.

FinOps: A New Approach to Cloud Financial Management

With the adoption of public cloud, procurement of IT has evolved from predictable upfront capital expenditure to variable consumption-based monthly bills. The result is engineers making daily spend decisions that affect a company’s bottom line at rapid speed while finance teams struggle to keep up with the pace and granularity of spending.

So, how can organizations keep pace and understand cloud costs? Enter FinOps!

Download this eBook to learn how FinOps can help you.

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A cost-avoidance mindset combined with the need to modernize applications led NRECA to Cloudability.

  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% across the board
  • Reinvested the savings to provide additional services to millions of end customers without increasing the dues paid by NRECA’s ​ members​

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