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IT Cost Management

The IT Cost Management service offering is a comprehensive, automated solution designed to bring clarity, control, and strategic value to an organization’s technology spending.
The core purpose is to replace manual, error-prone spreadsheet processes with a single, data-driven platform that translates complex financial and operational data into clear business outcomes.

Our capabilities

Cost Transparency and Allocation

Based on IBM ApPtio, The platform automatically ingests and normalizes financial and operational data from all sources (general ledgers, cloud bills, etc.). It then uses an industry-standard taxonomy (Technology Business Management) to clearly allocate every dollar of IT cost including labor, hardware, and cloud usage to specific business units, applications, and services.

FinOps and Cloud Optimization

Components like IBM Cloudability provide specialized FinOps (Cloud Financial Management) capabilities. This gives engineering teams granular visibility into their multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) spending, enabling them to identify waste, apply rightsizing recommendations, and manage financial commitments (like RIs/Savings Plans) to reduce overall cloud costs by 20% or more.

Strategic Planning and Value Management

It helps IT and finance leaders move beyond simply reporting costs to actively optimizing technology investments. This includes automating budgeting and forecasting processes, performing application rationalization (identifying and eliminating redundant apps), and demonstrating the business value delivered by technology spending.

Unified, Business-Centric Cost Transparency

We go beyond simple cost monitoring to deliver full financial and operational visibility through a single platform. By leveraging the TBM taxonomy, we automatically normalize data from all sources (cloud, labor, contracts) and directly allocate 100% of costs to specific business units and applications. This alignment ensures IT leaders speak the language of business and drives accountability across the organization.

Autonomous and AI-Powered Optimization

Our service offering includes highly advanced tools (like IBM Cloudability) to drive continuous, performance-safe savings. You provide AI-driven recommendations for rightsizing instances and managing financial commitments (RIs/Savings Plans). This moves clients past manual cleanup toward proactive, automated decision-making in the variable world of the multi-cloud, maximizing their return on every cloud dollar.

Integrated Platform for Strategic Value

Unlike point solutions, our offering is a full suite that integrates Costing, Planning, Billing, and Benchmarking. This allows our customers to not only understand what they spent but to strategically rationalize their application portfolio (eliminating redundant apps), streamline budgeting, and use peer benchmarks to justify and reinvest savings into high-value innovation and growth initiatives.

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What solutions does Smart Scale provide for Finops?

Smart Scale’s FinOps (Financial Operations) solutions are designed to move organizations beyond simple cost reporting to achieve continuous, strategic financial control, particularly within the complex, variable costs of cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.

Their FinOps solutions are built on two primary pillars:

1. Intelligent Automation for Cost Elimination

This solution focuses on achieving cost savings through proactive, performance-safe automation a critical component often missing in basic FinOps tools.

2. Comprehensive FinOps Practice and Governance

Smart Scale integrates industry best practices and governance to ensure cost control is a continuous, organizational discipline.

Who are our services for?

Small and Mid-Market Customers (SMEs) Companies Seeking Platform Modernization Technical and DevOps/SRE Teams Businesses Focused on Cost and Performance Optimization.

What is our approach to Successful Finops Project Delivery?

Our approach to delivering successful FinOps projects is based on the continuous, iterative FinOps Framework (Inform, Optimize, Operate). We go beyond simply reporting costs by integrating advanced automation and technical expertise directly into the process to drive measurable value and cultural change.

Testimonies From Our Customers

Feedback From Our Customers On Successful Project Delivery

“Our cloud bill was a huge source of anxiety. We knew we had waste, but lacked the granular data to fix it. The team implemented the IBM Apptio suite which gave us 100% cost transparency across all our multi-cloud environments for the first time.”

Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Travel Platform Profiver