Financial Management
Control cloud costs with budget enforcements and savings opportunities.
Overview
Allocate and track spending, get real-time and forecasted data, identify savings opportunities, and enforce budgets.
Our Capabilities
Savings opportunities
Kion's cost optimization features continually scan your environment, helping you identify opportunities to save 30% or more on your cloud bill and making you more cost efficient.
OUR FEATURES
- Built in checks to identify over provisioned and unused resources to rightsize or decommission
- Enforcements to ensure you don't miss when RIs are due to expire
- Multi-faceted views of savings findings; automation to enable owners to take action to save money
Budget enforcements
With Kion, you won't be surprised by a cloud bill. Kion includes cost enforcements to curb spend in real time.
OUR FEATURES
- Visual indicators to alert users of spending in excess of plan
- Automated actions to freeze spend or downsize instances
- Workflow integrations to request funds and perform other custom actions
Budgeting and cost tracking
Kion makes cloud costs meaningful by aligning spend to your corporate budget. You get the visibility - across the organization or within a specific business area - to see the big picture.
OUR FEATURES
- Project-level allocation using unique funding sources mapped to internal/external cost centers, contracts, grants, or budgets
- Near real-time view of cloud spend to understand the top cost drivers
- Forecasted spend data to sync cloud budgets with ERP and BI tools, and spreadsheets
Key Benefits
- Get insight into real-time spend to avoid cloud bill surprises
- Save money and reduce cloud waste
- Identify top cost drivers by department and project
- Streamline monthly cloud bill reconciliation and reporting
More Cloud Enablers
Complete cloud enablement is possible when automation & orchestration, financial management, and continuous compliance come together.
