Cost & Efficiency

A structured method to reduce costs in cloud, service and product contexts through governance, engineering and FinOps practices.

Concept for planning, monitoring and controlling IT and cloud costs with a focus on transparency, budgeting and optimization.

FinOps is a cross-functional approach to manage and optimize cloud costs by aligning finance, engineering and business teams.

Internal cost allocation that bills cloud and IT costs back to consumers (e.g., product teams), creating transparency of usage.

Methods to allocate costs to products, teams, or projects to increase transparency and accountability.

Showback is the non-billing presentation of IT and cloud costs to business units to provide transparency and foster accountability.

A concept for identifying the structural factors that determine cost levels and allocation. It supports prioritising optimization, accurate costing and architecture-aware decision making.

Assessment approach capturing all lifecycle costs of a solution, including acquisition, operation, maintenance and risks.

Analysis of economic metrics per sold unit to evaluate a product's profitability and scalability.

Concept for the systematic measurement of performance and reliability of software, hardware and processes.

Cost efficiency is the principle of maximizing delivered value while minimizing total costs. It guides prioritization across design, operations and investment decisions.

A concept for measurable indicators assessing resource usage, throughput and time expenditure across processes, systems or teams.

Dynamic automatic adjustment of instances and resources to load, improving availability and cost-efficiency.

Purchased, committed cloud capacity that reduces ongoing compute costs through long-term commitments.

Adjusting IT resources to actual demand to reduce cost and secure performance, especially in cloud environments.

A methodical approach to systematically compare costs and benefits of an intervention to support evidence-based decision making.

Structured prioritization method that weights criteria and scores alternatives numerically.

Systematic method for evaluating alternatives that makes pros and cons visible and supports reasoned decisions between conflicting objectives.