TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud
Accelerate the business value of your cloud investment.
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Google Cloud
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Highlights
- TCS’ Global Cloud Study reports that many organizations lack full proficiency in critical cloud skills such as cloud FinOps experience.
- As many as 47% of companies surveyed indicate challenges in finding the right skills in financial operations and management, and 23% experience increasing pressure to justify cloud-related investment decisions.
- TCS is uniquely positioned to help organizations navigate their FinOps journey at all stages of cloud maturity—from initial adoption to advanced optimization.
- TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud is an operational framework that enables enterprises to drive financial accountability, cost efficiency, and resilience when embarking on their cloud journey.
Overview
Optimizing cloud investment by fostering collaboration between business, IT, and finance is key to maximizing business value from cloud.
Enterprises are embracing the cloud as an enabler for business growth. However, there is a rising concern about cloud spend predictability, accountability, and the true business value derived from cloud expenditures.
Collaboration between business, IT and engineering, and finance is a must for joint accountability of cloud spend decisions. TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud empowers enterprises to make data-driven decisions for their cloud investments. It enables organizations to forecast cloud budgets accurately and allocate cloud spend to relevant business units based on consumption parameters, promoting a culture of linking cloud investment to business value. Moreover, the framework equips enterprises to monitor and track their FinOps capability maturity level and cloud spend against internal and industry benchmarks, allowing them to take corrective actions if required.
Solution
TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud is a comprehensive framework that enables an organizational cultural transformation for adoption of FinOps capabilities to boost financial performance.
As part of our advisory service, we collaborate with enterprises to help them navigate the complexities around FinOps adoption. By creating a blueprint that includes a multi-dimensional FinOps capability maturity assessment, followed by a clear and actionable FinOps adoption roadmap, we make the journey easier for enterprises.
Our framework promotes best practices, standards, and education on cloud financial management for FinOps practitioners. Guided by this framework, we help enterprises build FinOps practices that accelerate business value. Our service includes:
- Maturity assessment: TCS’ FinOps practitioners and Google Cloud-certified architects assess an organization’s cloud estate and cloud operation capabilities by applying FinOps principles to determine the current cloud FinOps maturity level.
- Analysis, insights, and recommendations: Once the enterprise’s cloud FinOps maturity is evaluated, actionable insights are determined, and a pragmatic FinOps initiatives roadmap is prepared to assist the enterprise in moving to the next maturity level through what we call the three phases of the FinOps life cyle of Inform, Optimize, and Operate. The roadmap developed includes recommendations guided by key metrics linked to business value and focus on waste reduction, cross-functional collaboration, and effective governance.
We leverage Google Cloud resources including Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Logging, and a generative AI stack comprising Gemini and Vertex AI to generate insights and recommendations applicable to multi-cloud estates.
TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud also enables enterprises to analyze cloud usage and cost data through persona-based dashboards using BigQuery and Looker.
Benefits
Maximize the business value of your enterprise’s cloud investment with TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud.
With TCS FinOps Transformation for Google Cloud, enterprises can quickly build FinOps practices that accelerate business value. They can:
- Improve planning, forecasting, and decision making
- Improve planning and utilization of cloud resources with timely visibility and reporting of their allocation.
- Boost data-driven and collaborative cloud spending decisions by establishing joint accountability between business, IT and engineering, and finance.
- Increase accuracy and predictability of cloud consumption by adopting the right forecasting mechanisms based on historical trends and future projections of business growth.
- Maximize cost efficiency
- Monitor the overall cloud estate and efficiency of the FinOps function by formulating the necessary metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Track and optimize resource consumption and reduce waste by institutionalizing persona-based dashboards.
- Enhance resilience and security
- Mitigate operational risks by establishing strong governance structures and guardrails.
- Enhance operational resiliency and manage anomalies in the cloud bill with prompt actions and course corrections by leveraging the established processes, benchmarks, and guardrails.
The TCS Advantage
With the right blend of deep domain expertise, process and technology know-how, and proven tools and accelerators, TCS enables enterprises to accelerate their FinOps transformation journey.
Here are some of the key advantages we bring:
- Domain and technical expertise: TCS brings its in-depth domain experience of FinOps and cloud technology to recommend customized cloud cost optimization interventions and help enterprises establish a FinOps practice and governance.
- Dedicated and experienced contextual masters: Our team of FinOps experts and Google Cloud-certified architects and engineers provide holistic recommendations for both process and technology-driven cloud cost optimization.
- Tools and accelerators: TCS is equipped with a rich library of assets, blueprints, and accelerators to automate FinOps capability assessment and deliver generative AI-powered, best-fit recommendations.
- Strategic partnership: As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, TCS leverages its deep expertise in cloud services including cloud migration, infrastructure, application modernization, data management, and industry-specific solutions to help companies achieve their FinOps goals.
