Executive summary for finance leaders

Make Azure spend predictable and track what changes.

Use billed cost for invoice review and effective cost for amortized analysis. Finance can track ownership and potential savings while engineering controls every change.

Estimate savings See CFO demo

Fixed plan price · No share of savings · Read-only recommendations

CloudMonitor sample Overview showing effective cost, forecast against budget, anomaly exposure, unallocated share, and cost per employee — Sample data. Effective cost, forecast against budget, anomaly exposure, unallocated share, and cost per employee. Open the CFO demo

Published customer outcomes

Results with names behind them.

46% Azure spend reduction Measured over a two-week implementation window

22% Data Lake Azure spend reduction Published Transport for NSW case study

The operating rhythm

From Azure bill to a finance-ready decision trail.

CloudMonitor turns billing data into a shared review process. Finance gets a baseline and ownership view; engineering gets prioritized opportunities and remains in control of every change.

01
Establish the baseline

Start with billed and effective cost across the period finance is reviewing.
02
Assign ownership

Map charges to cost groups that reflect business units, projects, or customers.
03
Review the opportunity

Engineering assesses delivery risk and the estimated saving before acting in its existing change process.
04
Verify the movement

Return to billed cost after the change and carry the evidence into the next review.

CloudMonitor sample Savings and Waste screen showing potential monthly savings and opportunities grouped by rightsize, idle, storage, schedule, and orphaned resources — Sample data. Potential savings remain opportunities until an owner decides what to do. Open Savings & Waste

The commercial model

Fixed annual pricing; no share of savings.

CloudMonitor matches a fixed plan price to your annual Azure consumption. The price stays fixed for the purchased Marketplace term and is never a share of savings.

Public plans from $6,000 per year can also be bought on a one-month Marketplace term. Lower bands are annual-only.

The platform surfaces potential savings and routes them to owners. It does not make infrastructure changes. Approval and execution stay in your engineering process, while finance keeps the baseline and subsequent cost movement in view.

Potential: An estimated opportunity, not booked savings.
Decision: An owner postpones or dismisses it, or takes action outside CloudMonitor. Completed items are detected from cost data.
Evidence: Billed cost remains the source for the follow-up review.

Review the fixed annual pricing

A customer result

46% Azure spend reduction

“Data-Driven did a comprehensive audit of our Azure infrastructure and DevOps processes with CloudMonitor. They identified and improved several areas, saving our company thousands of dollars each month in subscription costs.”

Rafic Habib · CEO, Clinic to Cloud

Case-study result measured over a two-week implementation window.

Read the Clinic to Cloud case study

What finance sees

The numbers arrive with ownership and context.

Dense billing exports become reviewable questions: what remains unallocated, where ownership is still blank, and which exceptions need a decision before the next close.

CloudMonitor sample Cost Allocation screen showing allocation coverage, unallocated spend, active rules, and first-match rule order — Sample data. Cost Allocation shows 92.6% coverage, $97k unallocated, and eight active rules. Open Cost Allocation

01 / Allocation

See what is allocated and what still needs an owner.

Cost Allocation shows coverage, unassigned spend, cost groups, and first-match rules. Ownership can remain blank until your team assigns it.

CloudMonitor sample Anomaly Inbox showing two open high-severity anomalies with dollar impact, owner, likely root cause, and next step — Sample data. Two open high-severity anomalies appear with financial impact, owner, root cause, and next step. Open Anomaly Inbox

02 / Exceptions

Review the high-severity exceptions first.

The sample view shows open high-severity anomalies with dollar impact, owner, likely root cause, and next step beside each movement.

Governance and assurance

Dedicated workspace, read-only recommendations, shared evidence.

CloudMonitor keeps the analysis visible to finance and the authority to change Azure resources with your team.

Read-only recommendations: No automatic changes to your Azure resources.
Dedicated customer workspace: Isolated within CloudMonitor's Microsoft Fabric tenancy.
Shared evidence: Cost groups, owners, potential savings, and anomaly impact stay visible to finance and engineering.

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Certified software · Azure

FinOps Certified

Specialty Solution

Equal Assurance ISO 27001 certification mark

ISO 27001 + 9001

Certified · ISO 42001 verified

Build the baseline

Start with the Azure numbers you already have.

Use annual Azure consumption and current FinOps maturity to create a range finance and engineering can review together.

Estimate your Azure savings Discuss the business case

Make Azure spend predictable and track what changes.

Results with names behind them.

From Azure bill to a finance-ready decision trail.

Establish the baseline

Assign ownership

Review the opportunity

Verify the movement

Fixed annual pricing; no share of savings.

46% Azure spend reduction

The numbers arrive with ownership and context.

See what is allocated and what still needs an owner.

Review the high-severity exceptions first.

Dedicated workspace, read-only recommendations, shared evidence.

Start with the Azure numbers you already have.

Platform

FinOps Framework

Customers

Resources

Offices

Assurance and credentials

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