Financial Consulting Services
AHEAD Financial Consulting provides a Single Source of Financial Truth (SSOT) to drive technical, financial and operational alignment. This SSOT is the foundation for analytics and cost optimization across on-prem, SaaS and public cloud spend.
Exponential Financial Transparency which leads to better planning and fewer surprises
“Harvest to Reinvest” in more innovative solutions
Reduction in Overall IT Budget
in Application Dispositioning Savings
- AHEAD finance and technology teams work together to create a bottom-up, enterprise-wide financial model for your organization. We shine a light on all present and future committed costs in your enterprise cloud over the next 3-5 years, then model different scenarios for reducing and repurposing that spend.
- We work towards giving you total financial transparency and optimization through our budgeting and forecasting tools, breaking down costs by product pricing, by location, by business unit, by workload and more. We can also create chargeback and showback models for additional savings.
- Our strategy impact analysis gives insight into potential savings through data center consolidation, workload optimization, application rationalization, cloud strategy, and automation opportunities.
- AHEAD provides a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for technical, financial and operational data. The Hatch platform serves as the integration, automation and presentation layer for data, tools and analytics across on prem, SaaS and public cloud.
- Following a full Financial Consulting engagement, access your data in an easy-to-consume Power BI interface via a monthly subscription.
- Determine if an individual digital transformation initiative is financially viable for your organization. We create a top-down categorical and enterprise wide-financial model to create a business case for any technical initiative.
- We overlay technical recommendations to a business-as-usual profile to tell the end-to-end financial story of a proposed IT change.
- Accurately estimate ROI and evaluate the real business impact of digital transformation solutions.
- Track cloud spending across your business, eliminate costs through rightsizing and automation, and devise the right governance and chargeback models to contain runaway spend.
- Determine the right placement of workloads across the data center and multiple public clouds based on your unique business requirements.
- See accurate forecasting with Predictive Cloud Modeling. We estimate your potential cloud spending based on your business forecast, not technical specs entered into a cost calculator.
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Do It yourself
| Solution | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total | Notes |
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| Employee(s) to manage tooling, analyze, derive insights, make recommendations, and implement changes to contain cost. | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Internal Full Time Employee Cost |
| Estimated Cloud Spend | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Includes YoY Estimated |
| Tooling Fee (2.5% of Cloud Spend) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | FinOps Tooling |
| Optimization Findings (Cloud Spend Reduction) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | DIY Cost Optimization |
| Do It Yourself Total | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
AHEAD Managed FinOps Solution
| Solution | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed FinOps as a Service | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | AHEAD Managed FinOps Pricing |
| Estimated Cloud Spend | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Included 15% YoY Estimated |
| Tooling Fee (2.5% of Cloud Spend) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | FinOps Tooling |
| Optimization Findings (Cloud Spend Reduction) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | Higher Cost Optimization |
| AHEAD Proposed Total | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Estimated Savings | $0 - (0%) | $0 - (0%) | $0 - (0%) | $0 - (0%) |
AHEAD utilizes consistent, careful FinOps methodology to deliver an average of 10-20% in cloud optimization savings to our clients, over a three-year engagement. When building this calculator, we made assumptions based on past AHEAD client data.
The AHEAD FinOps ROI calculator is designed to give your organization a rough estimate of how our services can decrease the TCO of your cloud investment. It is not intended as a sales proposal, nor is it a guarantee of exact savings numbers.
For AHEAD, FinOps doesn’t end at just cloud cost management. We create a baseline financial analysis of spending across your entire IT portfolio, including people, existing trends, and your current IT roadmap. Through this improved IT spend transparency, we help you optimize your spending across all technology areas, from your data center to your service management platform. Then we future-proof your cost savings through strategic impact analyses and budget forecasts for new solutions and technologies.
Our approach offers a continuous feedback loop to ensure KPIs and business outcomes are met. From our baseline analysis, our finance and technical teams work in tandem to create economic forecasts grounded in timing considerations for technical planning and implementation. As the program continues, our baseline forecasts are adjusted for actual results. We then report the value that was captured from every initiative, so you can take the opportunity to reinvest those savings into further projects.
