Cloud Business Manager
Gravitant’s Cloud Business Manager delivers comprehensive, easy-to-use reporting and administration to plan and deploy the most effective IT environment to best meet business objectives. IT organizations can use Gravitant’s business management services to analyze the value of the cloud services model by comparing it with current IT operations, cost, and service delivery models. IT leaders can develop scenario models and establish cloud transformation roadmaps for migrating applications from their current infrastructure to a network of cloud service providers that meet cloud resource requirements for the application portfolio. Using Gravitant’s Supply Network Simulator and Optimizer, IT organizations can compare cloud services pricing models, support service levels, and architecture specifications to develop and implement effective cloud sourcing strategies and service governance.
Gravitant On Demand services:
- Cloud Transformation Planner
- My Cloud Services Catalog
- Cloud Sourcing and IT Supply Chain Simulator
- Cloud Financial Manager
Features
- Cloud Transformation Planner (Current IT Cost/Utilization/Performance vs Desired Cloud Cost/Utilization/Performance)
- My Cloud Services Catalog (Catalog Import/Export)
- Sourcing, Pricing and Supply Chain Optimization Engine
- Cloud Finance Manager - Cost vs Service Utilization Dashboards & Cost Forecasting
Benefits
- Clearly understand where current costs, issues, & risks are based on user input and systems data
- Quickly identify areas with highest ROI and value to the IT organization
- Identify and baseline cost, capability and risk metrics for each cloud initiative
- Develop aggregated cloud initiatives roadmap to meet specific cost, capability, business outcome goals
- Enables successful sourcing strategies to support cloud initiatives and goals
- Organize and structure cloud services to match business service and application portfolio
- Control how cloud services are being purchased and consumed with the IT organization
- Quickly size & price each cloud service from a vendor for a given solution requirement
- Specify weights for each evaluation criteria and establish templates for consistent & effective sourcing
- Compare service providers for cost, QOS (availability, security, reliability & flexibility), technical capability, risks et al
- Consolidated Bill of Materials across internal & external service providers
- Visibility of cloud service costs across aggregated and granular levels
- Integrated automated cost planning, utilization, metering & charge back processes - unprecedented real time tracking of costs
- Control of resources and costs through policy automation
