FinOps - Bell Integration

FinOps

Optimise cloud usage and cost efficiency

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Navigate the complexities of FinOps to establish cloud governance, maximise business value, eliminate wastage and foster agility.

As cloud adoption grows across the business, getting a grip on spiralling cloud costs is becoming a top priority. But that’s not all.

The growing complexity of your hybrid IT and multi-cloud environments makes it difficult to manage a host of challenges. Everything from forecasting, provisioning and right sizing cloud resources to simply turning cloud off when it’s not in use.

“While cloud can generate substantial value when done right, many companies have seen their cloud spend grow by as much as 20 to 30% each year.”

McKinsey: Five ways to lower cloud costs without destroying value (August 2023)

Why FinOps

Gaining visibility and hard data about what’s running where, so you can prevent cloud sprawl and identify cost saving opportunities, is just the start. You also need to establish a comprehensive cloud governance framework, so you can:

  • Ensure activities within the cloud are fully aligned to business goals
  • Control the deployment and usage of cloud resources to maximise ROI
  • Make accurate predictions about cost and resource optimisation based on business need
  • Enforce best practices across the organisation
  • Foster agility, innovation and efficient growth
  • Support cloud security and defence in depth against known threats and risks

With Bell Integration you gain:

  • Cost transparency

    We’ll enable the spend transparency that’s needed to manage cloud costs, providing real-time reporting on your cloud spend and utilisation across different teams and projects. Using these insights, you’ll be able to ensure your cloud services won’t cost you more than they should.

  • Cloud spend forecasting

    Make better predictions regarding cost and resource optimisation based on identified business needs. Armed with this data, you’ll be able to exercise cost containment without compromising operational performance and make more informed decisions about which cloud vendors to utilise.

  • Financial accountability

    Our powerful reporting and analytics tools make it easy to understand exactly who is responsible for which costs. Leveraging this information, you’ll be able to hold teams accountable for responsible cloud usage.

  • Cloud optimisation

    We provide the data, automation and optimisation capabilities needed to derive maximum benefit from your increasingly complex technology environment. Encompassing everything from asset lifecycle management processes through to addressing technical issues such as platform incompatibilities can result in cloud resources being consumed erratically, we make it possible to optimise your cloud and IT costs.

  • Enhanced resilience and risk management

    From making strategic decisions based on integrated models through to implementing FinOps governance to ensure compliance with data security requirements, we help you minimise cost and financial and security risks.

  • Drives sustainability

    We’ll identify consolidation and optimisation opportunities, ensuring you’re able to balance environmental efficiency with financial value and organisational goals.

  • Business agility

    With Bell you’ll be able to deploy new features, applications, products and services faster.

Our Approach

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Providing all the tools, expertise, and resources you need to optimise cloud spend, drive financial accountability and foster collaboration across the enterprise, Bell Integration will help you make smarter and more informed decisions regarding your cloud services.

Why Bell Integration?

Experts at infrastructure migration and management, our holistic FinOps framework enables you to drive 30-50% cost savings while improving the efficiency of your cloud resources.

With Bell Integration you gain:

  • Bell’s industry-leading FinOps Framework – which enables you to initiate proactive cost avoidance and progress towards mature cloud governance.
  • Tooling and cloud agnostic solutions – we use a variety of strategies and third party tools to help customers save money on their cloud spend.
  • Insights – we deliver deep visibility into problem areas that also represent areas of opportunity for our customers.
  • Access to ESIF funding – by initiating a new and well architected operational framework that assures accountability and predictable financial and eco outcomes for cloud-based systems.
  • Optimisation initiatives – covering compute, storage, databases, licensing, CI/CD/aaC tooling and environment management.

Covering every aspect of your FinOps journey, our approach incorporates everything from structured spend monitoring and proactive cost avoidance through to standardised optimisation services.