Cloud Computing Financial Management

Corporate IT is adopting cloud computing as the architecture of tomorrow, driving disruptive change in the way IT costs are managed. With the ability to quickly activate a new provider, easily switch vendors, and mix-and-match internal and external cloud capabilities, cloud computing puts power in the hands of IT.

There is tremendous potential to gain game-changing cost advantages from cloud computing. Digital Fuel delivers the new capabilities that are needed in your cloud-based world. You have to be able to manage the cost and values of multiple vendors, build what-if scenarios, and see how various alternatives compare.

Proactive Visibility into Cloud Cost and Value

Our Cloud Financial Management solutions are designed to give corporate IT teams complete visibility into the total cost of their infrastructure and applications across both public and private cloud environments. We have developed solutions for both public clouds like Google Apps, Amazon Web Services, RackSpace Cloud, and Salesforce.com as well as private clouds including vCloud by VMware. Even better, our solutions work across any combination of public clouds, private clouds, or traditional environments.

Get More from Your Cloud Initiative

For the teams responsible for cloud environments, visibility into costs delivers tangible information needed to make key decisions. With our Cloud Financial Management solution, you can:

• Develop "What-if" Scenarios — Cloud pricing and packing options can get complicated, especially when combined with internal services. Do you need standard or high availability? What level of security? What are the benefits of migrating just storage compared to migrating an entire application stack? Our IT Financial Management solution includes "what-if" scenarios for modeling the costs of any cloud option including built-in libraries of cloud vendor pricing that enable you to compare similar packages.
• Identify Candidates for Cloud Computing — Our solution can immediately identify applications that are over-provisioned because of occasional peak usage. This will identify the types of applications that are the most likely to deliver significant savings without impacting business results if migrated to cloud environments.
• Gain Business Unit Cost Visibility and Predictability — Our Cloud Financial Management solution delivers role-based dashboards and reporting to deliver the visibility into the cost of clouds and predictability of future expenses to your business units.
• Enable Showback and Chargeback for Clouds — Our solution is able to correctly charge business units for actual usage. Our cost model for the IT service is based on the many different cloud and traditional components. A typical environment may easily have cloud storage with one vendor, cloud infrastructure with a second vendor, in-house development, outsourced support and more. We capture costs and usage for each of these underlying cost drivers, and allocate the entire cost correctly based on usage.
• Receive cost Overrun Alerts — Since cloud costs are directly related to use, cost and usage must be carefully monitored to ensure all expenses stay within budget and there are no unpleasant surprises. Our solution tracks utilization of cloud resources and immediately notifies you of unusual usage patterns that may trigger budget cost overruns.
• Cloud Financial Compliance — Our solution enables you to easily perform usage-based allocations of any shared service, including cloud-based services, in the systematic and auditable manner required by tax and regulatory compliance.

Cost Financial Management for the Widest Range of Cloud-Based Services

Our IT Financial Management solutions for cloud manage the cost and performance of:

• Infrastructure (IaaS) — Servers, storage, networks, mobile and more
• Platform (PaaS) — Salesforce.com, Google Apps, and more
• Business Process Services — Procurement, payment and more
• Public, private and hybrid clouds
• Internal and external clouds