While migrating on-premises services to the Azure cloud has numerous benefits, businesses often fail to realise their full potential due to poor optimisation. Azure can be optimised in many ways, but the most crucial elements to focus on are cost, security, and resource management. This presents a unique opportunity for MSPs who specialise in Azure optimisation to gain an edge over their competitors. Infinigate Cloud SCOUT is here to help you make the most of this opportunity.
What is SCOUT?
Infinigate Cloud SCOUT is an AI-powered platform specifically designed to help organisations optimise cost, security and resource management within Azure environments. Where other cost optimisation tools, such as Microsoft Cost Management, allow surface-level monitoring and optimisation, SCOUT takes it to the next level with in-depth governance, cost management, admin logs, tagging and cost allocation.
Inform, Optimise and Secure with SCOUT
Business Relevant Reporting – SCOUT provides detailed and precise reports that empower financial operations teams to manage cloud consumption, generate accurate forecasts and facilitate straightforward cost allocation.
Cloud Economics – Leverage AI tagging to align end-user IT billing with business categories and associate resources with business contexts to facilitate financial operations cost control activities while adapting to their evolving cloud environment.
Detailed Recommendations – SCOUT’s recommendations engine provides actionable recommendations that drive cost optimisation, tailoring each strategy to your cost profile objectives.
Cost Strategies – With the cloud landscape constantly evolving, SCOUT enables you to help your customers to have a comprehensive understanding of contractual usage optimisation, sprawl and right-sizing.
Zero Trust Alignment – SCOUT was designed in alignment with multiple pillars of Zero Trust, including identities, networks and policy optimisation with the ability to track and measure security posture improvements over time.
Secure Identities – Improve the organisation and efficiency of Active Directory and Azure tags by using business context, automation and optimal license allocation, while tracking resource usage and managing staff changes.
What are the benefits?
Reduce Azure Spend – On average, SCOUT will reduce a customer’s annual Azure spend by 30%. This is achieved through AI-powered understanding of usage and expenditure to regain control over cloud resources and their costs.
Gain Clarity on Azure Billing – SCOUT’s analytics and reporting capabilities can help you identify duplicate functionality and associated costs in your customer’s Azure environments. These insights can enable you to reduce their expenditure or assign these costs to improving their security posture.
Follow Best Practices – By asking the right questions about resilience, security, usage optimisation, and cost, you can help your customers get the most out of their Azure investment. These best practices will not only reduce costs and improve security but also enhance customer satisfaction and reduce churn.
Improve Security Posture – SCOUT can help you identify gaps in your customers’ and prospects’ security posture without requiring multiple third-party solutions. The AI-powered recommendations will indicate which applications should be replaced and highlight potential cost savings. Stay Compliant SCOUT can assist businesses in achieving regulatory compliance and streamline compliance reporting. The Tagging Engine categorises services, enabling you to identify business-critical services to invest in and optimise and which areas can be ignored.
How we can help
The Infinigate Cloud SCOUT platform equips organisations with the necessary insights to optimise the value of their Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.
Utilising AI-driven insights, SCOUT enables licence optimisation, productivity enhancement, identity security, and lays the groundwork for a successful, intelligent digital transformation all displayed in straightforward, intuitive dashboards.
Start with a free Health Check
A great way to see the benefits of SCOUT is to deliver a free Health Check into an existing Azure environment, and this will highlight what the platform has found in cost and security optimisation recommendations.
Sign up to SCOUT today or contact us for further information and we’d be happy to talk you through the SCOUT opportunity and to book in your free Health Check.