FinOps Discovery (powered by Flexera)

Our FinOps Discovery professional services include the following -

FinOps Diagnostic Assessment - The objective of this FinOps maturity assessment is to assess your organisation's current implemented cloud financial management operating model, provide recommendations for improvement, and identify focus areas for process implementation or enhancement that would support an ongoing FinOps program.

FinOps Fundamentals Workshop (Kick Off) - A workshop to provide introduction to Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) model, with an overview of the (6) FinOps domains and associated capabilities. The objective of the workshop is to establish a clear understanding of the scope of the FinOps Professional Service, objectives and action plan to kick-off the engagement with an overview of FinOps methodology.

Cloud Spend Management Implementation SoftwareONE supports mapping of our organisation's cloud costs back to business units to enable shared accountability between Customer business units. Show your teams what they are spending and why, and define budgets to enable more accurate forecasting.

4, Cloud Cost Optimization Proof of Value - The Cost Optimization workshop is focused on presenting the initial potential savings report, working with Flexera to help understand usage of the tool as well as savings opportunities and an understanding of the saving methodologies available in-platform.

FinOps AWS Marketplace Fundamentals - Third party software spend through AWS marketplace can impact spend-based cloud commitments and enable cloud cost optimization for AWS. SoftwareOne provide a foundational workshop on AWS Marketplace and the intersection of FinOps and third-party software procurement through AWS marketplace. SoftwareOne can also support in the identification of a pilot for an ISV private offer(s) through AWS Marketplace.

Executive Business Case - Executive presentation of results, recommendations, and business case. SoftwareOne present back the findings of the professional services engagement with a comprehensive FinOps roadmap.

Access to Flexera (Subscription) - Flexera is included for the term of the Proof of Value “Free Trial”

What to expect Professional service implementation and configuration of Flexera SoftwareOne can also support with selecting and purchasing a third-party FinOps tool, leveraging AWS Marketplace to utilise EDP commitments Support with purchasing Flexera (Subscription) directly through SoftwareOne

AWS Services Covered

1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
2. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and
3. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)