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Azure Cost Optimisation
Reduce cloud spend by up to 30%
Embed Ongoing Ownership, Accountability, Management & Control Of Your Azure Environment.
Gain full visibility of your cloud costs, eliminate unnecessary spend, and bring budgets back under control.
Eliminate Hidden Cost Waste
Gain Full Cost Visibility
Improve Forecast Accuracy
Strengthen Cost Accountability
Reduce Cost Overruns
Take Back Financial Control
Why Cloud Costs Are Hard To Control
Spend Is Spread Across Platforms, Portfolios & Teams
Limited Visibility Across Business Units
Difficulty Aligning Costs To Revenue & Assets
Increasing Pressure To Justify Spend To The Board
Regulatory Expectation Demands Stronger Cost Control
What are the Root Causes?
No Centralised Ownership Of Spend
Costs are spread across teams and portfolios, with no single point of financial accountability.
Limited & Fragmented Visibility
Cost data sits across multiple areas, making it difficult to build a complete financial view.
Governance Lagging Behind Growth
Cloud usage has scaled faster than financial controls, oversight, and accountability frameworks.
Weak Alignment of Spend To Business Value
Spend is not consistently linked to revenue, assets, or products, limiting meaningful insight.
What Financial Control Should Look Like
Clear visibility across all cloud-related spend
Accurate forecasting aligned to business growth
Costs aligned to portfolios, products, and teams
Strong accountability across the organisation
Confidence in financial reporting and oversight
The Crucial Steps Required to Regain Control
Identify and eliminate unnecessary expenditure
Reduce cost leakage across business units
Improve cost allocation and financial transparency
Strengthen planning, forecasting, and reporting
CASE STUDY
Cutting Cloud Costs by 30% for Ocorian
Ocorian is a trusted partner to over 9,000 clients globally, from asset managers and financial institutions to corporations, high net-worth individuals, and family offices.
Discover how Venture 1 helped them optimise their Azure environment, streamline operations, and achieve significant cost savings not just as a one-off exercise but in a way that is being sustained.
Our Recommended Approach
Both the immediate elimination of waste and the adoption of long-term cost control.
Stage 1:
Azure Cost Assessment
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Establish clear visibility of current spend
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Identify wasted, idle, or inefficient resources
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Produce a prioritised optimisation and savings roadmap
Stage 2:
Azure Cost Remediation
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Implement agreed optimisation actions
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Right-size or remove unused resources
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Optimise Savings Plans, Reservations, and Hybrid Benefit
Stage 3:
Azure Cost Guardianship
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Continuous monitoring and anomaly detection
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Monthly dashboards and savings reports
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Automation to scale down or clean up idle workloads
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Regular Finance + IT optimisation reviews
Customers adopting this approach typically see
15-30%
reduction in wasted Azure spend within months
Predictable
cost forecasting and reduced financial risk
Improved
collaboration between Finance and IT teams
Why Venture 1
We don’t start with a sales pitch, we start by proving value.
What makes us different?
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Low-Risk Entry Point
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Applied Intelligence - Not Automated Reports
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Environment-Specific Insights
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Proven FinOps Methods
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Hands-On Optimisation
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Finance & IT Alignment
Not sure where to start?
For many customers, our Azure Cost Assessment becomes the first step towards building a sustainable cloud cost optimisation strategy, highlighting where waste exists and where meaningful savings opportunities can be realised.
What You’ll Get
✓ Initial review of Azure consumption and cost drivers
✓ Identification of potential waste and optimisation opportunities
✓ Recommendations aligned to Microsoft and FinOps best practices
✓ Insight into potential areas for savings and efficiency improvements
✓ Guidance on next steps and prioritised opportunities
Not Quite Ready To Book An Assesment?
Use our Azure Cost Savings Calculator to gain an indicative understanding of the savings opportunities