How Cloud Management Platforms Empower FinOps for Cloud Computing
In today’s cloud-first world, where cloud spending frequently outpaces cloud budgets and 30% of cloud resources are underutilized (Flexera 2023), Financial Operations (FinOps) teams face mounting pressure to balance innovation with fiscal responsibility. Enter Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs): the orchestration engines turning cloud chaos into actionable insights.. The FinOps Revolution: Why CMPs Matter As organizations...
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The Power of AI in Cloud Cost Management
In today’s digital-first business landscape, enterprises increasingly rely on cloud platforms like Azure and Microsoft 365 to enhance agility, scalability, and collaboration. However, this reliance comes with a critical challenge—managing and optimizing cloud expenditures. With complex pricing models, evolving infrastructure, and the sheer volume of data involved, manual management of cloud spending becomes impractical and...
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Why You Should Do Microsoft 365 Tenant Analysis Periodically?
A periodic Microsoft 365 tenant analysis is essential for maintaining operational efficiency, cost control, and security. For example, you can detect license waste and optimize licensing cost, improve security posture of your apps, users and devices etc. Result of this analysis should be shared with all the stakeholders in your organization, with actionable. OfficeBoard, our...
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Azure Cost Management with PowerBoard
Azure cost management is essential for organizations using cloud computing, to maintain their competitive edge, along with cost visibility, cost control and cost optimization. PowerBoard, our Azure cloud management platform is turning Azure Cost Management into its “Hero” feature. ➡️ Current cost and forecast along with monthly cost trends ➡️ Potential monthly costs savings based...
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Microsoft 365 Licenses Cost Optimization
Working with organizations of all sizes for the past 3 years, we recommend following 6 Best Practices for Microsoft 365 License Cost Optimization & Management. 1️⃣ Regular License Audits ⭐ Conduct monthly reviews to identify inactive, never-logged-in, and disabled users. ⭐ Reclaim licenses from employees who have left the organization. 2️⃣ Use Automated License Assignment...
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Loves Cloud’s Products – Year in Review – 2024
2024 turned out to be a fruitful year for our products. Driven by our customers and partners feedback, we continue to save time and money for managing Azure and Microsoft365. Key Releases Per Quarter for Each Product PowerBoard (Azure Management Platform): Q1 (JFM): Inventory Module introduced to track resources. Q2 (AMJ): Link All Data with...
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OfficeBoard – Microsoft365 Licenses Cost Savings Opportunities
We released a new “Savings” page in OfficeBoard to help organizations manage and optimize their #Microsoft365 licensing costs. This page serves as a single pane of glass to identify, analyze and share licenses costs savings opportunities with all stakeholders in your organization. Following information is available on this page: 1. Licenses cost savings opportunities for all licenses. 2. Licenses...
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Cloud Management Platform for Azure and Microsoft365
Cloud computing has ushered a new era for organizations globally where they have found themselves vulnerable to security and unpredictable cost, along with a paradigm shift of a shared security responsibility model. Cloud computing also brought in a steep learning curve along with its problem of plenty and organizations are finding it difficult to catch...
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