Optimize Your Cloud Costs
OptimizeYour.Cloud supports mid-sized companies with a 12-module approach that combines
- FinOps best practices,
- custom Power BI reports and
- personalized consulting
to make your cloud spending clear, transparent, and sustainable.
Flexible, modular, and tailored to your business: Implementation can be completed in a compact 90-day timeline, gradually over 180 days, or as a streamlined modular version.
There are countless resources on cloud cost management and FinOps—but where do you start, and where do you stop? With us, you start right away with your own cloud data: Right from the start, we install dashboards and create transparency and an overview of your cloud costs—tailored specifically to your company. We teach the necessary FinOps theory step by step, whenever it’s truly needed.
The Problem
Cloud costs are rising faster than expected. Without transparency and governance, budgets spiral out of control. Many companies don’t know:
- How can you optimize and forecast effectively?
- Where is too much being spent?
- Who is responsible?
The Solution
Get started with OptimizeYour.Cloud today using our structured 12-module approach for mid-sized companies. We combine FinOps best practices, Power BI analytics, and personalized support to:
- Create full transparency into your cloud spending
- Allocate costs to teams and business units
- Reduce cloud costs
- Use cloud resources more efficiently
- Implement governance and automation
- Continuously optimize and forecast
How it works
OptimizeYour.Cloud consists of 12 modules with flexible implementation:
- Fast Track: 1 module per week / achieve success within 90 days
- Classic Process: 2 modules per month
- Short Track: Streamlined to the 6 most important modules / You decide which ones
Start with clarity
Set up your data sources and create your first Power BI report for cost transparency.
Take control
Gradual introduction of tagging, budgets, alerts, and governance. Continuous expansion of reports with new KPIs.
Achieve optimization
Forecasting, automation, and AI-driven insights for sustainable savings.
Module overview
12 modules, each with a clear goal and outcome
- Transparency – Understanding cloud spending
- Data structure & tagging – Ensuring clarity
- Power BI modeling – Scalable insights
- Cost accountability – Showback & chargeback
- Budgeting & Alerts – Avoid overspending
- Governance – Policies & Guardrails
- Forecasting – Predict costs
- Business Value – Link spending to results
- Automation – Streamline processes
- Benchmarking – Measure performance
- AI & Copilot – Smarter insights
- Review & Scale – Build on success
Module workflow
Each module follows a clearly structured, practice-oriented process inspired by agile methods:
- Joint Sprint Meeting: At the start of each module, we hold a joint (online) meeting, similar to a sprint planning session in agile projects. During this meeting, we review the previous module and discuss the results achieved and lessons learned.
- Goal Definition & Tool Selection: During the same session, we set the goals for the new module, determine the tools to be implemented (primarily FinOps Capabilities by the FinOps Foundation), and jointly define the relevant KPIs.
- Knowledge Transfer & Theory: Immediately following (or combined with the meeting), you’ll receive the necessary technical and theoretical input, tailored to your team’s current needs and stage of development.
- Implementation with Support: After the meeting, you will implement the agreed-upon measures—with personalized support and practical recommendations for action. This includes, for example, reviewing and decommissioning unnecessary resources, rate optimization, budgeting, and much more.
- Iterative Development: Existing tools are continuously expanded (Crawl, Walk, Run principle), allowing you to gradually increase your FinOps expertise and cloud cost control.
This creates a dynamic, sustainable learning and improvement process in which theory and practice are optimally integrated.
Why OptimizeYour.Cloud?
- Personalized support – live sessions per module
- Flexible implementation – monthly or accelerated
- No external data hosting – your data stays with you
- 25+ years of Microsoft BI & cloud expertise
- Cloud cost reports are tailored specifically to your company
- EU focus – compliance & best practices for European companies
- Unlimited online participants per company – no additional costs per person
Extensions – GreenOps & GenAIOps
OptimizeYour.Cloud’s 12-module approach can be flexibly expanded with the following forward-looking extensions:
GreenOps – Sustainable Cloud Cost Optimization
- GreenOps combines FinOps with sustainability: In addition to costs, CO₂ emissions and environmental aspects of your cloud usage are made transparent and optimized.
- Carbon Tracking & Reporting: Integration of CO₂ dashboards (e.g., Azure Emissions Impact Dashboard, AWS Carbon Footprint Tool) and custom reports.
- Automated Actions: Recommendations and automations to reduce emissions, e.g., by shutting down unused resources, selecting CO₂-efficient regions, and storage tiers.
- Cultural Change: Raising awareness and training your teams on sustainable cloud usage.
GenAIOps – Efficient Management of AI Workloads
- GenAIOps integrates FinOps principles into your AI and GenAI projects: costs, governance, and efficiency for AI models and workloads become transparent and manageable.
- Governance & Automation: Implementation of policies, monitoring, and automated processes for AI models (e.g., Azure AI Studio, Well-Architected Framework).
- Optimization & Scaling: Continuous cost and performance optimization of your AI workloads, including benchmarking and reporting.
- Practical Implementation: Hands-on workshops and custom dashboards for your AI projects.
Your Benefit:
With these enhancements, you make your cloud and AI investments not only more efficient but also more sustainable and future-proof. Feel free to contact us about GreenOps and GenAIOps—we’ll provide personalized advice on the possibilities for your business!
About Markus Krenn
With over 25 years of experience in Microsoft BI, data engineering, and cloud technologies, I help companies transform complexity into clarity. My approach combines in-depth FinOps expertise with solid know-how in data integration, modeling, and reporting.
Why is this important?
Reporting and data quality are critical success factors in FinOps projects, as they are essential across all FinOps Capabilities. Without a solid data foundation and professional data preparation, FinOps remains mere theory—only through excellent data engineering can cloud costs become transparent, manageable, and optimizable.
My promise:
Markus Krenn
1. Your cloud data will be prepared in such a way that reporting, dashboards, and analyses truly deliver added value.
You will receive not just theory, but practical, sustainable solutions—tailored specifically to your company.
You will benefit from best practices in FinOps and data engineering.
FAQ
Will by data be hosted externally?
No. All data remains in your environment.
Can the program be accelerated?
Yes. Modules can be delivered every 2 weeks.
Is there a minimum term?
No. You can cancel at any time.
Who should be involved in sprint planning, and who makes up the project team?
Who should attend the sprint planning meeting, and who makes up the project team?
The project team should be interdisciplinary: Sprint planning meetings typically include representatives from engineering/IT, finance/controlling, and the relevant business units. Leadership and procurement can be brought in as needed, for example, for strategic or procurement-related topics.
This collaboration is central to the FinOps Framework by FinOps Foundation: „Collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams” is essential for successful cloud cost management.
For more information, see the official https://www.finops.org/framework/.
Which cloud systems can be integrated?
In principle, any cloud system capable of exporting data in the Focus format can be integrated. Currently, this includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud (GCP). Alibaba Cloud is in the preview phase. Oracle Cloud and other providers can be integrated via the FOCUS Converter.
We will, of course, assist you in setting up the data export and ensure that your cloud costs are displayed in the dashboards regardless of the provider.
How many participants can take part in the Know-How Transfers?
Unlimited – there are no hidden additional costs per person.
How customized is the program?
Content and tools are tailored to your company and your needs.
Schedule an appointment now
Schedule a free, no-obligation initial consultation with Markus Krenn by selecting an appointment directly here.
After a brief introduction, we’ll discuss your specific goals and needs regarding your cloud environment and explore how OptimizeYour.Cloud can help you achieve them.
Completely non-binding, clear, and solution-oriented.
Contact
Krenn GmbH
Toisenweg 13
4040 Linz
Austria
Tel: +43 650 8112707
Mail: m.krenn@biconsulting.at
www.biconsulting.at
No-obligation, personalized, and practical—we’re here for you.