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Cost Optimisation

Reduce Cloud & Licensing Spend Without Sacrificing Performance

Deliver real-time visibility, actionable recommendations, and sustained cost efficiency across your Microsoft cloud estate.

"Executive leaders need to set the business priorities that drive cloud cost governance. This should be a cross-functional, collaborative activity, rather than the responsibility of a dedicated cloud financial operations team."
 
Gartner, Is FinOps the Answer to Cloud Cost Governance?

According to Gartner

up to 30%

reduction in Cloud Spend can be achieved through optimisation

70%

of Cloud Waste comes from underused resources

20–30%

improvement in Cost Forecasting accuracy is achieved by Organisations using FinOps

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Desired Outcomes

Predictable, optimised cloud spend

Gain control over your Azure costs with budgets, forecasting, and FinOps practices that align spend to business priorities.

Workload right-sizing

Ensure compute, storage, and services are optimally sized for demand — avoiding waste while maintaining performance.

Automated Governance

Policy-driven controls, tagging frameworks, and automated alerts prevent overspend before it happens.

Real-time cost insights

See your costs and resource usage in real time to make informed decisions, respond quickly, and plan effectively.

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Current Postion

Fragmented Reporting

Visibility across subscriptions, departments, and resources is limited, making it hard to understand true cloud spend.

Reactive Cost Management

Cost optimisation only happens after overspend or alerts, rather than proactively preventing waste.

Wasted Resources

Overprovisioned VMs, idle storage, and unused services drive unnecessary costs without improving performance.

Limited Governance

Lack of policies, tagging, and ownership leads to uncontrolled spend and inconsistent cloud management.

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Customer Success

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Customer Stories

Struggling with outdated systems, rising IT costs, or growing security and compliance pressures?

 

Our customer stories show how organisations like yours have overcome these challenges—modernising their IT, improving productivity, and regaining control of their technology. Read their experiences and see what’s possible.

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Stirling Square Capital Partners

Chief Digitalisation Officer

"Venture 1 delivered a smooth transition from our previous provider and continues to impress with transparent SLA monitoring and responsive on-site support. Their proactive, no-nonsense approach to modernisation, offering practical improvements without aggressive upselling, sets them apart."

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How We Help

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Azure Cost Management & FinOps

Gain visibility and control over cloud spend using Microsoft-native tools.

  • Cost analysis, budgets, and forecasting

  • Departmental chargeback and showback models

  • Spend optimisation aligned to business priorities

Technologies

Azure Cost Management, Azure Advisor, Microsoft FinOps Framework

Resource Optimisation & Right-Sizing

Ensure performance without unnecessary cost.

  • Identify underused or idle resources

  • Rightsize compute, storage, and databases

  • Optimise scaling models for demand

Technologies

Azure Advisor, Azure Monitor, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage

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Governance, Policy & Cost Control

Prevent waste before it happens.

  • Policy-driven cost controls and guardrails

  • Resource tagging and ownership frameworks

  • Automated alerts and budget thresholds

Technologies

Azure Policy, Management Groups, Azure Blueprints

Azure Cost Optimisation Service

Identify savings quickly and turn cloud cost data into actionable outcomes that drive real business value.

  • Rapid savings discovery – In as little as a few hours we can identify immediate cost reduction opportunities, revealing idle, under‑utilised or over‑provisioned resources without lengthy manual analysis.

  • Actionable optimisation insights – Get ranked, validated recommendations for rightsizing, reserved commitment planning, idle resource shut down and workload optimisation that help reduce waste and improve efficiency.

  • Proactive anomaly detection – Real‑time alerts flag unexpected spend spikes and anomalies before they blow budgets, so you stay in control.

  • Cross‑environment visibility – Consolidated cost reporting across subscriptions, business units and workloads gives finance and engineering teams a unified view of spend drivers.

Outcome
Fast time‑to‑value — savings can be identified within hours rather than weeks. 
Business‑aligned insight — looks beyond raw numbers to show what to act on and how much it will save.
Automated cost governance — minimises manual effort and supports reliable, consistent outcomes.
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Take control of your cloud and licensing spend. 
Start optimising today.
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