Financial Controllers
Victoria
Financial Controller
Victoria is responsible for ensuring that all business costs are allocated appropriately. She is finding that her organisation’s cloud first strategy is making this difficult when it comes to reconciling the organisation's costs with various invoices arriving on her desk. In the past the IT team would be the gatekeepers for allocating resources across software and infrastructure to the business. Processes are now compromised as developers deploy virtual machines on their own and as business teams sign up for SaaS (Software as a Service) applications as they want them.
Searching for ways to streamline cloud use and to regain financial management of IT services, Victoria has led her organisation in discovering a way to control spending and to create efficiencies.
Before Buttonwood
How can I track IaaS cloud spend as an operating expense?
Within Victoria’s organisation, reconciliation of cloud expenditure was done retrospectively. This created a complex task of tracking spend across various providers and business lines. With this shift from a capital expenditure (CAPEX) to an operational expenditure (OPEX) model how could Victoria understand her organisation’s cloud spend?
With Buttonwood
Financial transparency
Through proactive reporting, Victoria gained full visibility of cloud spend, providing her with insights to accurately forecast and help to create budgets for future spend. Victoria’s analysis of in depth reporting informed the business and IT teams of how to be more efficient with their cloud services.
Learn More About Cloud BrokerHow can I see where IaaS spend is going?
Victoria's 'invoice' email folder began to get larger and larger due to cloud providers. Attempting to reconcile each invoice back to a business team was almost impossible due to a lack of consistency in tagging. How can Victoria track where costs should be associated with?
Items within bills matched to cost centres
Buttonwood tracks all cloud consumption against predetermined cost centres. Victoria could now reconcile budgets against services, workloads or the consumer. Each business line can understand how much they are spending on what to work to decrease costs.
Learn More About Cloud AnalyticsHow can I track spend on SaaS applications?
Victoria receives invoices for SaaS applications that are paid monthly and annually. How can she track the costs against the business lines that use the applications without spending hours investigating each invoice?
SaaS management by cost centre
Buttonwood now manages all the SaaS application spend across the organisation. Victoria can easily track the app license costs as it is associated with a business line within the Cloud Exchange.
Learn More About Cloud ExchangeBefore Buttonwood
How can I deal with constant IaaS pricing changes?
Each cloud provider changes its pricing regularly based on requirements and regions. Victoria works to help business teams to stay within their budgets. How can she advise the teams on how to manage such complex pricing?
With Buttonwood
Clarity through reviewing the LCCB
Buttonwood presents the Lowest Cost Conforming Bid (LCCB) that matches with each workload’s requirements. With the ability to sort and review all options, Victoria relaxed knowing that the complexity was removed.
Learn More About Cloud BrokerHow can I bring my current SaaS application management processes to a new tool?
Victoria has her own current system to handle SaaS application invoices. How can she ensure that her current policies and processes aren't lost by the introduction of a SaaS management tool?
BYO apps & implement current governance
Buttonwood allowed Victoria to implement already established policies and governance rules into the new way of managing SaaS applications.
Learn More About Cloud ExchangeBefore Buttonwood
How can I save costs on IaaS?
The development team have workloads running all the time but Victoria can see that they are charged for those workloads in cloud even when they aren’t using them. How can she help the developers to save costs based on their hours of operation?
With Buttonwood
Set operating hours
Buttonwood has enabled the developers within Victoria’s organisation to set the times that they need access to their workloads. When they aren’t working, their workload environments are shut down, greatly reducing costs.
Learn More About Cloud BrokerHow can I track each business line's IaaS spend?
Each business line within the organisation has budgets set for them. Victoria wants to track the business line’s IT spend so instead of one large shared cost to the organisation, each business line is responsible for their own spend. How can she achieve this, adding value to her organisation?
Tracking costs for business anlaysis
Buttonwood tracks all cloud consumption against predetermined cost centres. Victoria could now reconcile budgets against business lines resulting in an understanding of how much they are spending on what cloud service.
Learn More About Cloud AnalyticsHow do I avoid SaaS bill shock?
Victoria can see that different business lines across various SaaS applications but little governance around duplication of apps or the operational costs. How can Victoria find a way to control these expenses?
SaaS financial transparency
Victoria is relieved to know that his IT team are setting budgets for the organisation's SaaS consumption. This ensures that there are no surprise costs from the business purchasing unexpected licenses.
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