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FinOps 360

Cloud Cost Governance and Optimisation 

A Value-Oriented approach to FinOps

FinOps 360.

Your path to cloud cost control.

Cloud spend is growing faster than the processes to manage it.

Shadow AI, untracked GPU usage, idle workloads, over-provisioned infrastructure, and licensing misalignment quietly erode budgets across every business unit. Organisations typically waste between 20 and 50% of their cloud spend - and most do not know it is happening.

Our FinOps 360 service gives you visibility, accountability, and the optimisation discipline to bring that waste under control and keep it there.

 


 

Livingstone's tiered approach to FinOps

Our services are designed to meet you where you are - from a no-tooling process review to a fully managed multi-cloud programme. Every engagement starts with understanding your current maturity and identifying quick wins.

 1. FinOps Insights

A process and maturity assessment designed to identify your challenges and turn them into opportunities.

  • Lightweight FinOps maturity assessment
  • Cost tracking and monitoring process review
  • Financial governance gap analysis
  • Quick-win process improvements and recommendations
  • Prioritised recommendations report

Duration: 4–8 weeks. No tooling required.

 2. FinOps Optimised 

A process assessment with hands-on spend optimisation — actionable savings before any tooling conversation.

All of FinOps Insights, plus:

  • Full point-in-time Azure spend assessment
  • Manual right-sizing analysis across compute and storage
  • Idle workload and orphaned resource identification
  • ROI and Savings Plan optimisation
  • Cost reduction opportunity register

Typical saving: 15–25%. Duration: 4–12 weeks.

 3. FinOps 360 as a Service 

  • Process, right-sizing, and tooling to enable ongoing management of your cloud estate — at enterprise scale.

    All of FinOps Optimised, plus:

    • Recurring right-sizing and automated monitoring
    • FinOps governance and cost management
    • Ongoing commitment and savings management with quarterly budget reviews
    • Powered by IBM Cloudability

    Typical saving: 20–44%. 12-month minimum.

What FinOps 360 removes from your cloud bill

A recent client with a £20M annual cloud bill identified £8.8M of avoidable spend — a 44% reduction — across idle workloads, oversized compute, commitment strategy gaps, storage inefficiencies, licensing misalignment, and dev/test environment waste. None of this required new tooling to identify.

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Livingstone is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SAM Managed Services 

What's more, we place highest on the Ability to Execute axis. We believe this is because of our ability to deliver impactful commercial results. 

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