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FinOps Services

Maximizing Outcomes for IT Spend

Optimizing IT spend is top of mind for every CFO, CIO & CTO. The shift to cloud and other transformational initiatives are changing the way businesses view IT. Many associate the term “FinOps” with only the public cloud, but why? After all, most enterprises manage complex hybrids of cloud and data center-based services, hence thinking about FinOps for the entire IT Enterprise is essential.

OUR PERSPECTIVE
WHY FINOPS SERVICES
Ensure you know where you are spending money in the cloud and identify opportunities to save by leveraging AHEAD's FinOps experts. In customer engagements, we average a 10% - 20% spend optimization over 3 year periods.
Application Dispositioning

Application dispositioning with IT financial consulting identified $17.3M in savings over 5 years.

Data Center Consolidation

A data center consolidation assessment with IT financial consulting demonstrated the client could save $3.7M over 5 years by accelerating the evacuation of a secondary data center.

Cloud Strategy Design

Cloud strategy design with IT financial consulting projected that a healthcare organization could run 100% in the cloud with no negative financial impact and added technical benefit. The models depict how each spend category was impacted over time with dynamic ramp schedules and transformation costs included.

KEY CAPABILITIES

To some, FinOps may be just another buzzword that simply translates to financial operations. AHEAD, on the other hand, prefers to approach it as methodology. Focused on optimizing spend, increasing business value, and enabling better transparency, our FinOps for Enterprise IT offerings are tailored to address an organization’s specific needs while uncovering significant cost savings.

01
Foundational Financial Analysis

Shine a light on all present and future committed costs in your enterprise cloud over the next 3-5 years, then model different scenarios for reducing and repurposing that spend.

02
Financial Strategy Consulting

Holistic BU / IT Financial analysis and modeling for different scenarios for reducing and repurposing spend distribution, ROI analysis. Evaluate product subscriptions and placement for your business. Design agreements that increase both savings and predictability, while reducing capex

03
FinOps-as-a-Service for Cloud

Track cloud spending across your business, eliminate costs through rightsizing and automation, and devise the right governance and chargeback models to contain runaway spend.

04
Workload Optimization & Architecture

Determine the right placement of workloads across the data center and multiple public clouds based on your unique business requirements.

05
IT Asset Management

Optimize assets across data center, end-user devices, and software; by identifying overlapping usage, matching the right assets to the right roles, and automatically distributing licenses

AHEAD FINOPS ROI CALCULATOR
This can help you roughly calculate cloud costs using AHEAD's services. Please answer any form fields below for table calculated results.
How much do you spend on cloud per year?

$

Do you have a tool? If not, see next question.
Do you have a FinOps team? If so, how large?
What is the cost per employee?

$

Do It yourself

SolutionYear 1Year 2Year 3TotalNotes
Employee(s) to Managed Power BI, analyze, derive insights, make recommendations, and implement to discover efficiencies and savings$0$0$0$02 x Sr. Cloud Engineer ($165k salary assumption)
Estimated Cloud Spend$0$0$0$025% YoY Increases
Tooling Fee (2.5% of Cloud Spend)$0$0$0$0FinOps Tooling
Optimization Findings (Cloud Spend Reduction)$0$0$0$0DIY Cost Optimization
Do It Yourself Total$0$0$0$0

AHEAD Proposed FinOps Solution

SolutionYear 1Year 2Year 3TotalNotes
Proactive FinOps as a Service$0$0Contact UsContact UsAHEAD FinOps as a Service Pricing
Estimated Cloud Spend$0$0$0$015% YoY Increases
Tooling Fee (2.5% of Cloud Spend)$0$0$0$0FinOps Tooling
Optimization Findings (Cloud Spend Reduction)$0$0$0$0Higher Cost Optimization
AHEAD Proposed Total$0$0$0$0
Estimated Savings$0 - (0%)$0 - (0%)$0 - (0%)$0 - (0%)

See a further explanation of our methodology here.

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