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Harnessing Cloud Efficiency for Optimal Cost Management

Written by Royden Burt | Aug 28, 2024
As organisations embrace a cloud-first strategy, managing the complexity and visibility of cloud costs becomes a critical challenge. Businesses find themselves grappling with multiple cloud environments, which can spiral into unmanaged costs and inefficiencies without proper oversight.

With a complex array of services and rapidly changing technology, adopting a strategic approach to financial management in the cloud is crucial. Inde’s Cloud Cost Optimisation Service (ICOS) is fast becoming a popular solution for many organisations—it’s not just about cutting costs, but also enhancing the value of your cloud investment.

This solution from Inde was designed to empower our customers on their Cloud journey.  Enabling customers to monitor, manage, and optimise their cloud costs, ICOS helps organisations to smartly forecast Cloud spend and therefore enable better budgeting.  From identifying savings, and realising value, customers receive unbiased, actionable recommendations from our experts.

Personalised insights with the ICOS dashboard

Featuring a personalised central dashboard offering a comprehensive oversight across your entire digital landscape, ICOS maintains a clear view of your resources and their expenditures by spanning applications, infrastructure, and various cloud environments—public, private, hybrid—as well as legacy data centres.

Receive detailed reports on the current state of your cloud environment, accompanied by easy-to-understand recommendations for optimisation, from our Cloud Optimisation specialists. These suggestions are tailored to each customers’ specific circumstances, ensuring that every recommendation is both practical and impactful for your organisation, helping to support you on your business growth journey.

Access to experienced professionals

Our team of seasoned FinOps practitioners, licensing specialists, and cloud architects have decades of experience and expertise.  This is invaluable when navigating the complexities of cloud cost optimisation, supporting your organisation to make informed decisions that align with its goals.

As an ‘Inde-pendent’ partner Inde has no hidden agendas or targets; our sole focus is on achieving great customer outcomes; optimising your cloud operations to make them as efficient and cost-effective as possible. 


Flexible and comprehensive service options

ICOS offers a range of services tailored to meet the specific needs of any organisation and can be flexible in its timeframes to accommodate the varied pace of different projects. We can achieve a return on investment within months, with ongoing benefits beyond the initial implementation. Services include:

  • Initial consultations and deployments: Quick setups including Snow Cloud Cost integration and initial dashboard tutorials.
  • Regular monitoring and governance: Monthly governance meetings, ongoing cloud spend monitoring, and regular update calls to adjust strategies as needed.
  • Direct support and recommendations: Access to cloud specialists either on a fixed schedule or as required, along with policy and governance advice.
  • Comprehensive reporting: From immediate cloud and licensing hybrid use rights recommendations to long-term strategies for cost optimisation.

Our customers are provided with detailed reports at the end of each period, providing a breakdown of current Cloud costs and estimated savings from our implemented recommendations.

Transforming cost management to strategic success

ICOS is not just about providing a service; it’s about providing a partnership that brings clarity, efficiency, and strategic foresight to cloud cost management. If your organisation is aiming to reduce expenses, enhance operational agility, or simply gain better control over your cloud spending, our ICOS team are here to help support you.  Integrating our expert knowledge with powerful tools and a customer focused approach, our goal is to empower you throughout you Cloud journey.