OPTICUS for Azure

Transform the cloud experience with total transparency.

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As investment in the cloud continues to soar, organisations are facing increased challenges around accurate FinOps activities, resource wastage, and balancing potential security risks with smart cloud optimisation.

Powered by a custom-built recommendations engine and read-only access, Surveil surfaces the clear, actionable insights needed to optimise, secure, and control your Microsoft estate.

Supercharge FinOps Activities

Opticus for Azure is a read-only analytics platform, developed to support the FinOps journey by surfacing deep actionable insights from across the cloud estate. With Surveil at their fingertips, teams are equipped with the right data to make informed decisions at every stage of the FinOps process.

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Visualize and Understand Spend

Using the smartest tagging functionality available, it’s never been easier to allocate costs, building an accessible view of how cloud resources are being used across the business.

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Speed to Data

Opticus’ menu structure has been aligned to the three stages of the FinOps process, allowing for instinctive navigation and easier access to the data most relevant to your current FinOps journey.

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Automated Risk Visibility

Automated alerts raise the alarm when unexpected costs – such as incorrect instances being spun up – arise, tempering potential bill shock.

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Usage Optimization

Throw a spotlight on organizational risks, access sprawl, and security threats – closing the gap before they become a problem.

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Continuous Optimization

Opticus provides users with an opportunity to monitor change, encourage recurring optimisation, and measure the impact of activities – honoring the continuous optimisation spirit of FinOps.

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Control Resource Management

Management teams can understand Azure consumption, make sound business decisions, and identify reallocation opportunities through AI tagging, integrated infrastructure management, and extensive cloud transparency.

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Control Cloud Budgets

Create and monitor cloud budgets, analyse shared costs, and monitor success with Surveil’s savings tracker.

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Manage Commitment-Based Benefits

Bring visibility to your MACC

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Aligned to FinOps

Surveil for Azure has been designed to align to each stage of the FinOps process – inform, optimise, and operate.

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Round-the-Clock Insight

Because the cloud never sleeps, Surveil for Azure is read-only, agentless, and always-on.

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Simplify cloud complexity

When it comes to minimizing cloud sprawl and maximizing cloud value, many organisations find themselves limited by complicated native reporting. Surveil has been built to dive deeper, uncovering more impactful analytics ready to be leveraged to transform cloud complexity.

Support FinOps teams in their cloud optimisation mission by providing visibility into every corner of the Microsoft Azure estate.

  • Align to key optimisation domains, as defined by the FinOps Foundation
  • Highlight hidden expenditure, lingering resources, and cloud costs ripe for optimization
  • Track savings to monitor FinOps success
  • Pivot data to match key personas
  • Cultivate accountability with cost allocation

Build a more secure Azure landscape from the ground-up, with a baseline assessment, zero trust-aligned intelligence, and greater threat visibility for much-needed clarity.

  • Evaluate human and non-human identities
  • Measure security control success against Microsoft Secure Score
  • Understand network security and monitor the attack surface
  • Monitor vulnerabilities and impacted resources with summarized security centre alerts.

Take control of cloud spend and budgeting with a range of features designed to put you back in the driver’s seat.

  • Group shared costs under a single umbrella tag to allocate with ease
  • Track Azure recommendations to measure success
  • Create monthly budgets against Smart Tag or subscription, monitoring against actual spend

Demystify the Azure environment and bring order to chaos with greater visibility into cloud spend, resources, usage, and allocation.

  • Identify spun-up resources
  • Allocate resources, usage, and cost to departments, teams, and geographies
  • VMs, Databricks, and Reserved Instances
  • Understand cloud resource usage, adoption, and costing
    Identify Hybrid Benefit opportunities

Maximise the benefit of cloud commitments with more thorough management and insight, highlighting usage, remaining commit, and spend.

  • Smarter, more effective MACC management
  • Track MACC spend more efficiently
  • Unique RI/SP Cost Allocation and benefits tracking
  • Better understand how your commitment is being used ahead of renewals
  • Fuel conversations around allocating resources to cloud projects

Fight back against budget wastage, inaccurate cost allocations, and poor-quality procurement with a new, smarter approach to tagging and allocating resources.

  • Ensure continuous cloud excellence with Smart Tagging
  • Set automated alerts to stay informed of changes
  • Accurately allocate spend and resource usage to departments and regions

Visualize Your Entire Microsoft World

Opticus channel partners can access insights into both Azure and Microsoft 365 from one platform to rapidly uncover revenue opportunities across their entire client-base

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Opticus for MICROSOFT 365

Monitor licenses, adoption, productivity, and security

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Opticus NAVIGATOR

Revenue intelligence engine for Microsoft service providers

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OPTICUS for Copilot

Key insights necessary to demonstrate readiness and adoption

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