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FinOps Services

Kyndryl crafts FinOps strategies that help optimize hybrid cloud costs, foster financial accountability, and promote a cost-conscious culture  

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Why choose Kyndryl for FinOps?

Kyndryl offers comprehensive FinOps services and leverages our expertise, processes, and technology to drive your FinOps maturity and business success.

We foster collaboration through direct client engagement, provide deep expertise in managing complex hybrid IT environments, and prioritize systemic changes for sustained FinOps operationalization.

Our credentials

Certified service provider and platform

Kyndryl’s Services and FinOps Platform are certified by the FinOps Foundation, allowing us to provide an end-to-end solution.

300+ certified practitioners

We have 300+ FinOps certified practitioners and professionals ready to advise, implement, and operate at every stage of FinOps lifecycle.

Innovation

Kyndryl FinOps platform brings actionable insights and recommendations that help optimize your hybrid cloud consumption.

Building your FinOps capability
Advise

Kyndryl helps assess your enterprise's level of FinOps maturity by providing diagnostic evaluation, then building a case for change, and lastly planning a roadmap to the desired state.

Implement

We help implement the optimal FinOps processes, practices, and tools for your enterprise, such as demonstrating the FinOps business value.

Operate

After establishing the FinOps model, we oversee and optimize the solution to foster a cost-conscious culture that consistently maximizes business value for your enterprise.

Our FinOps use cases provide a roadmap for success

Use case 1:

FinOps assessment uncovers significant cost savings

  • Assess FinOps maturity and design desired state operating model
  • Identify and assess data sources across multiple cloud and non-cloud providers
  • Uncover non-compliant tags according to business and organizational hierarchy
  • Generate and track resource optimizations

Use case 2:

FinOps optimization and wastage management

  • Tag resources with business context for cost allocation, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Identify optimization opportunities including rate, usage, commitment-based discounts, and design
  • Validate the feasibility and business impact of the optimizations
  • Collaborate with budget owners to implement recommended actions to reduce waste

Use case 3:

Create a culture of continuous improvement

  • Daily monitoring of cost and utilization trends, anomalies, and actionable insights
  • Develop a model for automation and anomaly detection
  • Set up regular cadence optimization reports
  • Foster financial accountability with governance best practices, cost attribution and business alignment, and reporting
  • Continuous cost allocation of resources for chargeback and showback
Customers succeed with Kyndryl FinOps services
Energy and Utilities: Ausgrid

Ausgrid is the largest distributor of electricity in New South Wales, AUS, providing power to 1.8 million customers and more than 4 million people. Kyndryl Consult and FinOps practitioners identified 1,264 potential cloud optimization savings opportunities and developed a transformation roadmap in six weeks.

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Healthcare

A large healthcare provider struggled to optimize private cloud servers and identify underutilized resources, leading to increased costs and degraded operational efficiencies. Kyndryl’s FinOps platform and services helped them to right-size the servers to match business objectives and optimize costs.

Agribusiness

A Brazilian agribusiness migrating on-prem IT to cloud experienced unsustainable cloud costs and a lack of visibility, predictability, and financial controls.  Kyndryl leveraged FinOps optimization and implementation, and used reporting and validated analysis to drive significant cost avoidance and reduce their monthly bill by 40%. 

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