Strategic Blue
FinOps Consultancy and Cost optimisation service
Strategic Blue can provide an independent review of your cloud cost optimisation status and provide recommendations on improvements across your full cloud estate. Examples include Cost Optimisation planning & delivery, Cost Conscious design processes, Deep Dive FinOps review, Overspend risk management or Tailored Pricing assistance.
Features
- Flexible consultancy tuned to your needs
- Expert advice on cloud cost optimisation
- Can be used independently or with our reseller hosting
- Can work with your internal support or other cloud reseller
- Available across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Delivered by expert, accredited individuals
- Applicable to existing or new cloud initiatives
Benefits
- Reduce your cloud hosting costs
- Make the most of your cloud budget
- Independent expert review service
- Focused just on cost saving, so no conflict of interest
- Improve your cloud cost governance and assurance maturit
- Add capability to your cloud centre of excellence CCoE
- Low risk - minimal permissions required to provide recommendations
Pricing
£300 to £1,800 a person a day
Service documents
Framework
G-Cloud 12
Service ID
1 9 1 8 3 1 2 0 0 1 1 6 1 4 7
Contact
Strategic Blue
Steve Old
Telephone: 02038722583
Email: digitalgov@strategic-blue.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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We carry out an audit of your current cloud commitment. Our secure systems ingest historical usage and commitment data. Our Financial Solutions Architects review the output from our analysis before interviewing technical and business stakeholders regarding their cloud procurement. The result is tailored, data-driven recommendations that will reduce and optimise costs.
We can help you increase your cloud cost effectiveness.
You may optionally use our predefined maturity package which will assess and help you increase your cloud cost maturity level from wherever you are starting from. - Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Cloud buyers receive an account manager who can will be on hand for all needs. We offer a monthly review giving Cloud buyers information about spend and our recommendations on how to reduce costs. Cloud buyers also have access to our Financial Solutions Architects, giving them a better understanding of their cloud infrastructure as a whole. Technical support is provided by the cloud vendors directly, with Strategic Blue focusing on cost optimisation.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Customer facing financial queries are available Monday - Friday during normal business hours.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Usually within 24 hours between Monday - Friday. Over weekends there is no support.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web chat support is accessible
- Web Chat enabled through Slack for registered customers
- Web chat accessibility testing
- NA
- Support levels
- All customers have an account manager available to answer billing and financial questions. Financial Solution Architect is available to support onboarding and advise on techncial aspects of cost optimisation. Business level technical support is provided by the cloud vendors.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Pricing
- Price
- £300 to £1,800 a person a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No