FinOps Managed Service

Accenture's FinOps Managed Service offering benefits organizations through specialized expertise and resources focused on optimizing cloud financial and driving cloud financial management. This allows an organization to focus on core business activities while ensuring that their cloud environment operates in a cost-effective manner aligned with organizational goals.

Our proven FinOps Operating Model framework and methodology will be the starting point to accelerating Cloud FinOps capabilities and activities at your organization. Our proprietary FinOps Operating Model includes governance models, process maps, RACIs, and KPIs across the core functions such as economic leadership, showback/chargeback, forecasting, optimization, policies, standards, and tooling. Accenture’s processes enable the execution of delivery and monitoring activities required for achieving maximum value from cloud. Our FinOps governance approach ensures that business value and strategic targets are achieved through cloud investments, by establishing suitable forums and providing timely information to your stakeholders. This establishes traceable cloud budgets, pro-actively monitored financial performance, and optimization activities to control costs and achieve optimal value.

Our people and processes are underpinned by tooling. Accenture can provide a fit for purpose Cloud Financial Management tool or leverage our network of partners to assist your organization in selecting a first-class industry tool. Our SaaS tool, Cloudeasier, provides visibility across cloud and on prem workloads to enable cost allocation, AI based predictive forecasting, smart alerting, and monitoring of carbon footprint and energy consumption. We would pair Cloudeasier with Accenture's Cloud Optimization Service (COS) tool to drive the deep level of analytics needed for customized optimization. Our specialized tooling, built in-house, is able to handle large cloud provider datasets, custom price lists, and data enrichment needed to do more advanced analytics. This allows us to focus on the services and levers that will drive meaningful savings rather than just a fixed-list of services and fixed-list of analytical algorithms. Our Optimization Team, comprised of cloud technology specialists and financial analysts, has developed 100+ level 2 advanced optimization tactics not in any tool and has attained 4 cloud cost optimization patents.