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Long-term cloud cost efficiency gains —that’s our promise.

What’s getting in the way of operating a cost-efficient cloud?
Stakeholder misalignment - tracking and managing costs across shared cloud resources is impossible
without collaboration between IT, finance, procurement, and business teams.

Absence of data-driven insights - limited real-time and actionable data across consumption sources
make managing and forecasting cloud costs complex.

Inadequate infrastructure - without centralized and comprehensive cloud tools and platforms, your IT
teams make suboptimal decisions.

Insufficient cloud knowledge - IT teams who don’t understand cloud operating models often turn to onpremises approaches that lead to unnecessary spending and business disruption.

Maximizing the business value of cloud is an ongoing effort that requires collaboration between your IT, finance,procurement, and business teams. Softchoice’s FinOps â¡Ò ŉîÖÈŉhelps establish a constant cycle of cloud cost
improvement that moves between three phases- inform, operate, and optimize.
Inform offers real-time visibility into cloud usage and spending patterns, enabling you to track, allocate, and forecast
budgets. It also helps you benchmark costs, performance, and processes against internal teams or industry best practices
to identify areas of improvement.
Optimize empowers you to put insights from the Inform phase into action through cloud cost improvement plans. Plans
will vary based on an organization’s context but often include tactics such as rightsizing, turning off unused resources,
tagging, purchasing commitment-based discounts, and modernizing infrastructure.
Operate helps you put plans into action, evaluating business and technical objectives against key performance indicators.
Here, you can detect anomalies and ensure plans deliver expected outcomes through monitoring processes and tooling.
This phase can also involve introducing automation or building a cloud cost center of excellence (CoE) to scale bestpractices and policies across the organization.

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Our modular FinOps solution is segmented into two tiers of services - Foundational and Advanced – allowing you to choose
the skill and type of intervention needed for your maturity, context, and priorities. Modules in each services tier work as partof a systematic approach. These services are supported by comprehensive planning, deployment, and management technicalcapabilities, helping quickly implement plans.

Foundational Services
Executive Alignment andBusiness Strategy

Through a guided process, we help establish your short-and long-term cloud financial
goals to create a FinOps adoption strategy aligned with executive leaders’ objectives andcorporate strategies. The adoption strategy provides the basis for a tactical roadmap
along with a case for change.

Maturity Assessment

Using information gathered from surveys and interviews, our team benchmarks yourorganization’s FinOps maturity and readiness against industry best practices. We thendefine and prioritize improvement areas based on your business and technical objectives.

Cloud Cost Evaluation

We use VMware Aria Cost, a non-intrusive third-party tool, to collect data from yourlive cloud environment to identify cloud cost inefficiencies. Our team then assesses
this data to create a cloud cost improvement plan aligned with best practices,supported by evaluation reports that detail the exact cost benefits of implementing
proposed recommendations.

WorkshopWe run a series of workshops to educate functional IT, finance, procurement, andbusiness team members on FinOps concepts and build consensus on critical businessand technical objectives. This helps define adoption focus areas and develop a backlog
list of noncritical tasks to guide long-term initiatives.

Advanced services
Program Development

Collaborative workshop to identify and address improvements in your Azure cloud
operating model, followed by recommendations captured in an action plan.

Program Enablement

Implement the prescribed action plan and evaluate results of the first FinOps
implementation cycle.

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Bring accountability, transparency, and control to Azure cloud’s variable spend model to:
Make accurate and informed business decisions with real-time and actionable data into cloud usage and spending
patterns.
Gain a strong understanding of how all aspects of your cloud environment contribute to the total cost of ownership.
Create a cost-conscious culture to encourage your teams to find ways to reduce costs and increase revenue throughcloud services.
Establish and maintain policies and guardrails to ensure cloud resources are secure, compliant, and cost-efficient.
Track and benchmark your cloud costs and performance against industry best practices and internal teams to staycompetitive in your market.
Improve your digital transformation maturity with tooling, automation, or application/data modernization to create new
business value.

Why Softchoice?
Our approach is focused and strategic, combining niche consulting expertise with enterprise-grade technical capabilities todeliver personalized engagements and impact at scale.
Leading partnership – deep business and technical expertise Azure cloud platform
Proven expertise – successful delivery of thousands of cloud projects across various verticals, geographies, andcompany sizes.
Advanced capabilities – AI/ML analytics, application/data modernization, and security services to support modernand complex environments.
Full-service provider – extensive experience delivering planning, deployment, and management services.
Certified team – our team of FinOps Foundation certified practitioners and professionals.
Focused and personalized – service scoped, planned, and delivered by the same team, ensuring consistency anddepth of understanding.

Contact your Softchoice Account Manager for more details or visit www.softchoice.com/contact-us.

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