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Cost Optimisation
Explore our tailored services designed to optimise your business processes, enhance your cost management, and make informed decisions in your cloud operations.
What is Cost Optimisation?
Cost optimisation is the structured process of reducing and reallocating spend so you can do more with the same or less budget.
It focuses on:
- Eliminating waste and duplication.
- Re‑negotiating supplier and licensing costs.
- Automating manual, low‑value work.
- Redesigning processes to improve efficiency and control.
Unlike traditional cost‑cutting, cost optimisation protects business‑critical capabilities and supports future growth.
Cost Optimisation consultancy
Cut avoidable spend, protect margins and free up cash – without damaging service or growth.
Libra Advisory helps mid‑market and enterprise organisations identify, quantify and deliver sustainable cost savings across technology, operations and support functions.
We combine deep sourcing expertise, data‑driven analysis and pragmatic change management to make sure savings show up in your profits, not just in presentations.
FinOps - Cloud Cost Optimisation
Inform
Increase the visibility of infrastructure costs to include development, finance and project management. This includes introducing monitoring for costs unit, business unit and projects. Creating dashboards for real time reporting that is available all the time, for all relevant stakeholders.
Optimise
Requiring deep understand of technologies and cost models, to reduce operation costs of infrastructure. This can range from simple reserved compute power, and unused resource decommissioning, to re-architecture of applications for a more cost optimised design.
Operate
Modification of guardrails and governance to ensure cost is considered at the earliest relevant point in the Software Development Lifecycle. Positively influencing the culture of the development team, so that everyone is building and designing services with costs in mind. That the first version of a service is already the most cost efficient.
Expert FinOps consultancy funded through savings delivered
Our cost optimisation consultancy differs to most
We focus on optimising existing cloud infrastructure costs across compute, data and development, through a bottom-up approach. This achieves:
- Highest Value First
- Just Enough
- Iterative
- Minimal Tooling
- Future Planning
- Business Specific
Ready to optimise your cloud spend?
Contact us today to schedule a consultation with one of our IT experts.
Case study: Learn how we made a 26% reduction in Azure costs
Libra Advisory undertook a strategic FinOps consultancy engagement to reduce cloud expenditure across Microsoft Azure and Office 365.
Software as a Service (SaaS) - Licence Cost Optimisation
Libra provide FinOps consultancy for SaaS as well as Cloud. This video demonstrates the portal used for Microsoft 365 Cost Optimisation to identify unused, unallocated and rightsizing opportunities to uncover 20-30% savings on average.
FinOps for Networking
A single view of your Network for Finance and Business
Enterprises invest millions in networks but struggle to answer financial questions quickly and accurately.
Millions are wasted because network tooling is not commercially aligned. They are expensive to maintain, opportunities are lost, and Return on Investment (ROI) is unclear.
Libra Advisory partner with Netos to bridge IT, Finance and Business with best-in-class data and analytics to deliver actionable financial insights in a single portal.
Insights
Track all infrastructure and telecoms costs, seamlessly tied to procurement and invoices
Track lifecycle status and model replacement strategies across your multi-vendor estate
Use Technical Business Management (TBM) to categorise across any technical or financial dimension for tailored reporting
FinOps Core
Pull data from any network management system or API
Model data gaps between different systems and build a Source of Truth
Ingest pricing, product, and lifecycle data for modelling and analytics
Projects
Budget projects down to individual components, with detailed costs breakdowns
Forecast OpEx and CapEx, and model against the current baseline
Model outputs side-by-side to compare different project and business outcomes
Automation
Unlock commercial benefits at the first stage of your automation journey.
It can take years to unlock business benefits and cost savings from a network automation project.
Let’s elevate your business together
Your path to optimising financial operations starts here. Schedule a Well Architected Review and let us guide you through the essentials for your business.