The SPLA Licensing & FinOps platform for finance and procurement professionals at service providers
Gain accurate and granular cost visibility
Assess overall cost-per-unit information
Manage costs regardless of growth or stagnation
Increase company-wide profit margins
Negotiate win-win cloud contracts
What’s keeping you up at night?
SPLA Licensing & Cloud spend
SPLA Licensing and cloud spending is unpredictable and sometimes chaotic, impacting your forecasting abilities.
ROI
Uncertainty surrounding the ROI of the company’s cloud investments, whether SPLA datacenter or Azure.
Cost fluctuations
The costs associated with innovation aren’t aligning to budgeting cycles
Complexity of licensing
There’s too much complexity in the software licenses held, with a lack of centralization for cloud commitments.
Software vendor audits
Worries around compliance issues and costly penalties arising from future software vendor audits.
Gain clarity and control with Octopus FinOps
Increased visibility
Gain complete oversight and accountability over your current cloud costs.
Reliabie forecasting
Assess current and future costs with more accuracy to stay within budget cycles.
Impact on growth
Identify opportunities for cost savings and wider margins to impact the bottom line.
Better rates
Obtain the best cloud cost rates available so you’re never overspending.
Understand licensing
Centralize cloud licenses for a better understanding of costs per licence and contract.
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End customer billing
Use cloud tools on Octopus to calculate bills for end customers based on accurate costs and usage.
Gain visibility over the billing process and provide full transparency to customers to increase relationships.Gain visibility over the billing process and provide full transparency to customers to increase relationships.
2
SAM baseline and audit readiness
Use Octopus to undertake important Software Asset and License Management baseline assessments.
Collect data on your entire software estate to understand the status of every license, highlight compliance risks and spot optimization opportunities. Prepare for vendor audits with complete confidence and accurate reports, mitigating the risks of costly penalties.
3
Profitability analysis
Finance and procurement leaders can use the Octopus FinOps platform to undertake more comprehensive profitability analysis.
Collect, visualize and integrate data wherever it sits to reveal the full picture of your revenue streams, create a clear cloud profitability analysis per end customer, and identify points of optimization.
4
SPLA usage reporting
Use the power of the Octopus platform to clearly report the SPLA usage of your business and your customers.
Track and manage licenses with ease, provide accurate reports to Microsoft, find gaps, and provide greater control throughout the entire license ecosystem.
Achieve success against key metrics
Revenue growth
Growth margins
Cost of goods sold
Unit cost economics
Predictability
Shareholder ROI
Software licence optimization
Cost per license
License utilization
