Cloud Cost Management as a Service
Suivez votre consommation et les coûts liés à l’utilisation du cloud dans le cadre de votre Cloud Cost Optimization
Simples à gérer, redoutablement flexibles et très évolutifs, les services accessibles dans le cloud peuvent également être « sur-utilisés », difficiles à suivre et rapidement hors de contrôle. D’où l’intérêt d’adopter la solution USU Software Asset Management. Cet outil SAM indique en effet quels services cloud sont utilisés dans votre entreprise, comment ils fonctionnent et assure une Cost Visibility globale. Optimisez votre Cloud Asset Management, le coût de vos services PaaS, IaaS, SaaS et IT hybrides en bénéficiant d’une vue panoramique fiable, en gardant en permanence l’œil sur votre consommation et en analysant vos licences et la migration vers le cloud.
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Une vue centralisée de vos différents fournisseurs de services cloud
Plus de transparence des coûts multi cloud notre solution collecte les données présentes dans les portails de vos différents fournisseurs et les organise dans une vue multi cloud centralisée.
Évitez les pénalités et les coûts pour utilisations excessives
Dans le cloud, il est facile de surconsommer par mégarde. Avec Cloud Cost Management vous évitez les usages au-delà de ce que prévoit votre budget.
Équilibrez les coûts et les options de vos abonnements
Avec notre Cloud Asset Management, seuls les services de cloud couverts par vos contrats de licence sont utilisés ; en outre, vous évitez de verser une somme excessive pour en bénéficier.
The Solution: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization
USU Cloud Cost Management as a Service offers easy to use cost reporting for complex multi-cloud environments of Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. USU helps enterprises to gain transparency and minimize financial risks by reporting the use and utilization of compute and SQL instances and its associated costs across multiple cloud providers. Enterprises need these insights to better manage their cloud environment, to monitor costs, and plan their investments. By combining enterprise-ready SaaS technology and Managed Services to powerful forces USU automates data collection, connector monitoring, and the ongoing reporting. While USU takes care of all the technical details and its ongoing management the Customer can focus on the results to derive strategic actions and create added value for their enterprises.
Basic offering:
Budget planning
- Adoption of cloud budgets based on customer plan data
- Budget data per provider, resource type and business service
Visibility & Controlling
- Display of current cloud costs per provider, resource type and business service over time
- Comparison of ACTUAL/PLANNED costs
- Forecast of costs for the fiscal year
- Data delivery for invoicing in the ERP system
Extended offering:
Optimization
- Identification of unused and optimizable cloud resources
- Optimization recommendations based on available data, e.g.,
- Right-sizing
- Additional discounts
- BYOL rights
Cover all essential cloud services
Cloud hyperscalers like AWS or Azure are more than happy to point that you can cut cloud costs. However, until you fully understand the variable spend model of public clouds and implement appropriate c21loud management solutions, savings will remain a hope and be slow to materialize.
SaaS (Software as a Service)
Our solution calculates the licenses you need from SaaS tools such as Office 365, WebEx, Salesforce, and Creative Cloud.
Current situation
- Many vendors
- Many contracts
- Different metrics
- Lack of visibility
- Inactivity and overlicensing lead to waste of money
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
CaaS (Container as a Service)
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Our services ensures you’re paying the right cost model for essential public cloud services, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Current situation
- Few vendors
- Choice between BYOL or rent licenses
- Various licensing and compliance rules for using on-prem licenses in the cloud
- Many commercial options: pay as you go, reserved instances, committed spend
Cover all essential cloud services
Cloud hyperscalers like AWS or Azure are more than happy to point that you can cut cloud costs. However, until you fully understand the variable spend model of public clouds and implement appropriate c21loud management solutions, savings will remain a hope and be slow to materialize.
SaaS (Software as a Service)
Our solution calculates the licenses you need from SaaS tools such as Office 365, WebEx, Salesforce, and Creative Cloud.
Current situation
- Many vendors
- Many contracts
- Different metrics
- Lack of visibility
- Inactivity and overlicensing lead to waste of money
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
CaaS (Container as a Service)
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Our services ensures you’re paying the right cost model for essential public cloud services, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Current situation
- Few vendors
- Choice between BYOL or rent licenses
- Various licensing and compliance rules for using on-prem licenses in the cloud
- Many commercial options: pay as you go, reserved instances, committed spend
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Manage a multi-cloud view
Your cloud services handle their own back end. But each cloud provider has their own portal for billing and reporting. Wouldn’t it be great to manage those statistics and KPIs in one place? You can - from the solution dashboard.
Cloud Cost Management gère tout en un seul endroit avec une vue multiclouds
Vos services dans le cloud gèrent leurs propres activités en back-end, mais chaque fournisseur de services cloud dispose de son propre portail pour la facturation et les rapports. Et si vous pouviez fédérer la gestion de ces statistiques et de ces indicateurs performance en un seul endroit ? C’est possible à partir de votre tableau de bord.
Des API pour le cloud
Vous pouvez extraire des données directement à partir d’outils de surveillance comme Amazon CloudWatch ou Google Stackdriver.
Besoins en serveurs
Évaluez vos serveurs, instances et machines virtuelles (VM) pour optimiser la configurations et la distribution des cœurs.
Optimisez votre parc de licences
Déterminez le nombre de licences dont vous avez besoin en fonction de métriques telles que les serveurs, les instances, le traitement et les utilisateurs.
Unleash rich reporting capabilities
Different stakeholders will want different data at different levels of detail. This is why you need to create and distribute your reporting with regular frequency and ensure it’s hitting the mark by checking in frequently with your stakeholders.
From the minute you pull data into the solution, you can report on it – in nearly real-time. See your information in a centralized dashboard and share Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboard data with your coworkers and decision makers. Your reports can ensure that IT, Procurement, and C-Suite know the value of managing multi-cloud environments.
Our comprehensive reporting will allow you to:
- See daily activity and trends in charts and graphs
- View historical data about software trends and usage
- Get notified when your contracts will change
- Share dashboards and critical reporting views
- Answer “over time” questions about software licenses
- Analyze and identify the minimum license needs
Afficher les informations métier dans des rapports
Dès que des données sont injectées dans la solution Cloud Cost Optimization, vous avez la possibilité de générer un rapport. Consultez vos informations quotidiennes dans un tableau de bord centralisé et partagez les indicateurs de performance (KPI) et les données du tableau de bord avec d’autres collègues et les décideurs. Ces rapports permettent aux responsables IT, au service Achats et à l’équipe dirigeante de connaître la valeur qu’apportent des logiciels bien managés.
USU x The ITAM Review Podcast
Rich Gibbons talks cloud cost optimisation with fellow cloud guru Robbie Plourde from USU. They discuss the different ways that ITAM can, and should, be involved in helping manage cloud spend including:
• Aligning with FinOps
• Managing hybrid environments
• Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL)
• Focusing on spend efficiency
• Engaging with stakeholders
as well as identifying transferable skills between ITAM & cloud management and supporting the culture shift within a business.
Robbie also shares his 5 top tips for making an impact in this area so don't miss out!
