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Performance Tracking and Benchmarking
Measuring Unit Costs
Maven Group uses the strategic objectives and program goals to help reveal the business value of the cloud investment as expressed on a per-unit basis. Our services include assessing the appropriate unit for measurement, in conjunction with the total allocable current and future cloud spend, to provide an investment perspective on resources committed to cloud based operations.
Resource Utilization & Efficiency
Our services help ensure there is sufficient business value for the cloud costs associated with each class or type of resource being consumed by our customer. Providing a time-phased perspective for a comprehensive evaluation of the performance, availability or other quality metrics to the value for the resources invested.
Forecasting
We design a combination of data representing historical spending with an evaluation of future plans, in the context of future cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle changes that may impact current budgets and influence budget planning and future cloud investment decisions.
Collaboration and communication between Operations, Budget, DevOps, and Executives inform the forecast models and key performance indicators.
Budget Management
We help build the practices and mechanisms for our customers’ budget formulation incorporates accurate cost elements, projected for outlying years. We also perform root cause analysis for budget variances and improve spend tracking and forecasting remaining spend.
Managing Anomalies
Maven Group helps our customers build predictive risk indicators to identify unexpected spending, identify and structure communication for anomaly alerts, and supports the investigation and resolution of anomalous usage and cost.