Knowing where your money
is going.
We show which source drives which volume, which department sits behind it, and what the expected growth means for your licence. Data volume grows by itself, and at renewal nobody has a substantiated answer. Saving money is not the goal, steering is, with an amount and a consequence attached to every proposal.
Knowing where your money goes.
Data volume grows on its own: a new source here, a more verbose log line there. At the end of the year there is a renewal nobody has a good answer for.
- Volume per source and per department, set against actual usage
- Cost allocation, once a department sees what its data stream costs, the conversation changes
- Growth forecasting based on your own history, not on a rule of thumb
- Optimisation proposals with an amount and a consequence attached
Saving is not the goal.
Control is. A source that is rarely used but indispensable during an audit should stay, on cheaper storage, with a shorter online retention.
Usually three conversations that would not happen otherwise.
Negotiating with figures.
A renewal in which you know exactly which volume comes from where, and which part you can do without giving anything up.
Cost allocation.
The moment a department sees what its data stream costs, the conversation about what really needs to be retained changes.
Storage per purpose.
A source that is rarely used but indispensable during an audit should stay, though it can sit on cheaper storage with a shorter online retention.
What does your largest data source cost per month?.
If there is no answer, that is the answer. We make it visible in a week.