Cloud tracking and optimisation often slip to the bottom of the IT to do list, especially in the midst of daily firefighting and urgent fixes. But when you are managing a complex Azure environment, operating without visibility is like driving at night without headlights.
You must consider whether it’s worth exposing your business to unnecessary risk. Without clear data, decisions about your digital strategy become guesswork. That guesswork often leads to wasted spend, compliance concerns, and missed opportunities.
Cloud visibility matters for cost and compliance (and your sanity)
Visibility impacts vital outcomes for organisations, including:
- Financial Control: Continuous cost management keeps you financially competitive and allows you to make thoughtful decisions. It is crucial to identify underutilised resources and right-size virtual machines to stop unnecessary spending. While this is true, tracking every penny spent is difficult, especially with numerous systems and reports to analyse. Although, the dream of real time visibility to proactively monitor spend across all licenses and resources might be closer than you think.
- Governance and Compliance: A strong security posture is essential in today’s cyber landscape with AI advancing at an unprecedented rate. Ensuring your environment is fully secure on all fronts is crucial, but not straightforward. Gaining visibility can be pivotal here for maintaining robust governance and compliance across your Azure estate. Visibility enables you to continuously monitor for policy violations, misconfigurations, and unauthorised changes, reducing the risk of data breaches and regulatory penalties.
- Drive Efficiency: Sifting through multiple reports and dashboards to find the information you need is draining your time and resources. But it’s not just you – many businesses are rife with fragmented data, making manual investigation a necessary chore. The cure is a centralised platform where you can gain actionable insights instantly and free up your team to focus on more strategic initiatives. When you can quickly pinpoint underperforming services or areas for improvement, overall business productivity is boosted. It’s about empowering your team with the right information at the right moment so you can deliver greater results.
Gain control of Azure and end the admin nightmare
Now wondering where you can find this one-stop-shop for your Azure environment? That is exactly what the Provide™ Portal delivers. It is a centralised platform that provides all the Azure visibility you need in one place. But it also goes far beyond basic Azure reporting to provide you with actionable recommendations and optimisations, including:
- Cost and License Management: Set budgets and receive alerts before you hit unplanned expenditure, track spend across all M365 subscriptions and Azure resources instantly, and better plan for the future with forecasted spend outlook. This proactive approach is aligned to Microsoft’s Well Architected Framework (WAF) and helps you avoid surprises and keep your cloud costs predictable.
- Monitor Security Posture: Track cloud compliance levels, identify misconfigurations, and review risk exposure across your environment – as well as access to your Microsoft Secure Score to understand your current secure posture and how to improve it. With real time alerts, you can address vulnerabilities before they become serious threats.
- Performance Metrics: Observe the health and efficiency of your running services to maintain optimal speeds and availability. This ensures your applications deliver the experience your users expect.
- Sustainability Goals: Visibility even extends to tracking CO₂ emissions within your Azure usage. If your organisation has committed to strong sustainability goals, this sometimes overlooked metric helps align your cloud strategy with environmental targets.
Real time data means no more manual reports. Instead of tracking down and dissecting last month’s costs, your monthly review becomes a proactive planning session focused on optimisation and growth.
Beyond the Portal to expert optimisation reports
Cloud Direct CSP+ enhances the Provide™ Portal with expert oversight. Regular optimisation reports will deliver personalised improvement suggestions on cost, security, and performance. Higher tiers also include direct access to cloud architects to support your future strategy and ambitions. This is the difference between simply having data and having expert insight applied to act strategically with that data.
The combination of cutting-edge technology and certified expert review ensures your cloud environment is continually optimised and you extract maximum value from your investment. Plus, you can save money on your Azure spending.
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