IT Spend Optimization
Find what sits unused, then buy the right size, from one supplier.
A renewal is due. Know what you use first.
We design the record, then supply and integrate licenses, cloud and hardware from Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, AWS and others, and support what you keep. We write into your requirement: purchased, deployed and last sign-in, per product. Savings measured against your baseline.
95%
Of cloud and SaaS spend with a named owner²
±0.5%
Billed cost matched to each invoice³
24 hours
Until a day's charges can be read³
1 store
In your tenancy; the tools only read it⁴
28 tests
Each with a written pass mark⁵
4 hours
To restore a seat reclaimed in error⁵
1 month
Read by a second tool, totals to the cent⁵
Send what you need to buy and by when.
Inform first. Optimize after. Billing and sign-in feeds land in one store in your tenancy, and the FinOps, license and TBM tools only read it.⁷
- FOCUS as the cost schema
- A store you own; tools only read it
- Tags enforced at provisioning
- Nothing reclaimed on stale data
The audit penalties cost more than the unused licenses. NASA's Inspector General, January 2023, over five years: about 15 million dollars on unused licenses, more than 20 million on penalties and audit true-ups.⁸ We write one record of every license. The pass mark is written first.
- Month-end: invoices match within 0.5%, three months running.⁵
- A wrong reclaim: A seat reclaimed from an active test user is restored within 4 hours.⁵
- Leaving the tool: With the FinOps platform switched off, a second tool reads one month from the store, and the totals match to the cent.⁵
- Test plan: What is tested, and the pass mark for each
Led by Avinash Dhinakaran. Principal Integration Architect
IT Spend Optimization Blueprint: IT spend visibility across cloud, SaaS, licenses and hardware
Built on published standards. Read the blueprint
Design studies
Design study · Retail. 3,200 retired store assets, one sanitization certificate each. Read the design study
Compared. Then Delivered.
Questions about this design.
Talk to an expertYou do: the store sits in your tenancy.
No: nothing is reclaimed on stale data.
No. Savings are measured against your own baseline. A city's auditor found millions in unused licenses.¹ Toronto, December 2024: almost 11 million dollars unused or underused.
The FinOps Framework's own technology categories: public cloud, SaaS, data platforms, private cloud, licenses, data center and AI.
Selecting the product, done before the quote, and executing disposal.
GAO, November 2024: three federal agencies were told to repurchase the same licenses to use them in the cloud.⁹ We write where each license may run, and what a move costs.