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Cost Transparency: I Can See Clearly Now

Series: Because IT Means Business

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Meet our Speakers

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Andrew AtkinsonSenior Director, Product MarketingCloud Cruiser@prdtmktgman

Deirdre MahonCMO

Cloud Cruiser@DBMahon


Key Topics for Today

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● The cost of flying blind

● What IT cost transparency is…and isn’t

● The value of Cost Transparency

● Best practices

● Q&A

poll #1


The Cost of Flying Blind

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80%Employees use non-approved apps to do their job

35%SaaS apps purchased are used

without company oversight

For every cloud app the CIO knows about, there are at least 10 more in use

15-20x

35%

Percentage of waste attributed to apps left running over the weekend.

Frost & Sullivan Cisco

Wall Street Journal


Top “pains” we hear from customers

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IT Finance Business

IT FIN LOB

Who’s using how much of what services?

No way to predict demand

Not enough/too much detail on vendor bills

Need to validate charges

Did we save money?

Need to control costs

Need accurate IT budgets

Faster, faster, more, more

Am I getting value?

Denial – I didn’t use that service


You can’t manage what you can’t measure

● Insufficient usage detail on service provider invoices

● Files are often so large, users can’t process the data

● Tagging is inconsistent and error-prone

● Tagging is insufficient for business reporting (BU, department,

project, application, geo, etc.)

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poll #2


What Cost transparency is = and isn’t

● Exposing costs of doing business

● Not chargeback -- does not move money

● Education

● Visibility

● User accountability

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The value of cost transparency

● Increased accountability

● Data-driven decision making

● Savings opportunities

● Insights into profitability of services

● Clear direction on future investments

● Confidence in financial measures ROI, NPV, NPP

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How do you

manage DEMAND you can’t predict

with SUPPLY you can’t control?


Demand management

● Demand comes from the user, not IT

● What is driving the business need?

● IT decides how to meet demand

● How much?

● How much will the business need in the future?

● What is the value of dollars spent?

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Supply Management

● IT supply chain

● Usage and Utilization at a granular level

● Show what you buy – Service Catalog

● Optimization

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Cloud Cruiser’s Solution

AN

ALY

TIC

SFO

UN

DAT

ION

Business

DECISION ANALYTICS

TRENDS & FORECASTS

AUTOMATED BILLING

PROFIT ANALYSIS

CUSTOM DASHBOARDS

MULTI-SOURCE COLLECTORS

FLEXIBLE DATA TRANSFORMATION

FLEXIBLE PRICING

IT

AUTOMATED CHARGEBACK

BUDGETS & ALERTS

SELF-SERVICE REPORTING

COST TRANSPARENCY


Meet Cloud Cruiser

● Founded in 2010

● Focus on hybrid cloud metering & management

● Customers: enterprises & cloud service providers

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PREDICTABLITYReal-time visibility vs. end

of month surprisesBetter forecasting

EFFICIENCYComprehensive reporting

Simple to understandEasy to maintain

Simple & straightforward

ACCOUNTABILITYQuantifiable charges

linked to actual usage & user

What’s being usedWho’s using it

ACCURACY Equitable chargesDefensible data

IT USER

Cost Transparency in Action


Q & A

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What next?

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Related Resources

White Paper: Total Cost of Ownership

Exec Brief: Business Clarity Through IT Cost Transparency

ZDNet article: Wanted: More Transparency in Cloud Costs and Usage Patterns

‘Uberfy’ IT: How To Deliver IT as a ServiceCo-Hosted by William Fellows and Owen Rogers, 451 Research

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Next webcast!

http://www.cloudcruiser.com/resource/total_cost_of_ownership/

http://www.cloudcruiser.com/resource/business-clarity-cost-transparency/

wanted: more transparency in cloud costs and usage patterns - See more at: http://www.cloudcruiser.com/media/transparency-cloud-costs-usage-patterns/#sthash.F0COwg1D.dpuf


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