Smart Co Consulting Limited

Cloud Financial Management FinOps Services

Our service helps organisations to better manage the costs of using public cloud. This includes developing a cloud financial management (FinOps) strategy, tooling implementation, cost reduction options such as Reserved Instances and vendor negotiation, as well as managing overall billing, alerting and reconciliation of cloud consumption across the organisation

Features

• Development of financial strategy for the management of cloud costs
• Implementation of alerts and financial controls to manage cloud spend
• Negotiation of enterprise agreements with CSPs to gain substantial discounts
• Analysis of cost reduction options such as Reserved Instances
• Implementation of tooling to enable organisational cloud cost management
• Development and ongoing management of business case for cloud
• Development and roll-out of financial management principles for development teams
• Comprehensive and automated financial reporting on organisational cloud spend
• Analysis of opportunities for cost reduction measures or cost control

Benefits

• A robust, consistent and efficient approach to cloud financial management
• Increased efficiency and reduced spend on public cloud services
• Enterprise discounts through targeted negotiation with cloud service providers
• Automated and ongoing cost management across entire cloud estate
• Modern tooling and processes ensuring full visibility and decision-making input
• Increased confidence in ability of development teams to manage budget
• Increased consistency and clarity of organisational IT spend
• Leverage full suite of cost reduction options available

£400 a unit

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at george.jackson@smart-co.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

329202922521703

Contact

George Jackson
02037801380
george.jackson@smart-co.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: SmartCo bring proven best practice approaches to the planning of cloud technology and business system projects. Our services are tailored to your sector and specific requirements and our teams bring the necessary experience and skills to ensure implementation and success.; ; Through engagement, we will work with you to assess the current situation (risks, issues and opportunities), the desired outcomes and outputs and the project options available.; ; We plan timescales, costs, risks, personnel and resource requirements and manage and optimise these throughout the project.; ; Our standard reporting ensures you will have the necessary oversight and governance of performance, quality and risks.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: SmartCo bring proven best practice approaches to the training and education needs of cloud technology and business systems. Our services are tailored to your sector and specific requirements and our teams bring the necessary experience and skills to ensure implementation and success.; Through engagement, we will work with you to assess the desired training needs, outcomes and outputs required and explore the training options available.; We plan the logistics (online, rooms, attendees, approach, structure and content) and how these services can be best deployed to ensure skills development and continuous improvement.; Our services bring innovative approaches to training, including, online, adaptive content, e-learning, booking systems, customised plans, integrated floor walking and establishing business owners, super users and champions to ensure continuous improvement and on-going training development.; Our standard training reporting ensures you will have the necessary oversight of training success, performance, quality and risks. Upon completion, training is embedded within the client organisation and integrated with joiners and leavers processes.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: SmartCo bring proven best practice approaches to the setup and migration of cloud technology and business systems. Our services are tailored to your sector and specific requirements and our teams bring the necessary experience and skills to ensure implementation and success.; Through engagement, we will work with you to assess the current setup and data (business process, quality, volumetrics, issues and opportunities), the desired outcomes and the setup and migration options available.; We explore the options with stakeholders to ensure risks and costs are managed and optimised and that benefits can be maximised through the transition.; We leverage inputs from business engagement to ensure business process needs are reflected whilst equally, leveraging experience from other implementations and industry best practice.; We bring many solutions and toolsets to support the process, from data quality analysis to approaches to phased migration. We bring deep knowledge of the setup and configuration of most business systems that mirror the designed "to be" business processes.; Our standard setup and migration reporting ensures you will have the necessary oversight of the transformation and migration success, performance, quality and risks.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: SmartCo bring proven best practice approaches to quality management, assurance and performance testing of cloud technology and business systems. Our services are tailored to your sector and specific requirements and our teams bring the necessary experience and skills to ensure implementation and success.; Through engagement, we will work with you to assess the desired outcomes and outputs and reflect these as objectives of quality and testing plans.; We engage to ensure business process needs are reflected as test objectives (functional, non-functional, volumetric and performance requirements) whilst equally, leveraging experience from other implementations and industry best practice.; We bring many solutions and toolsets to support the process, from data analysis to automated test scripting solutions to optimise the process and ensure best value for money.; Our standard quality and test reporting ensure you will have the necessary oversight of the quality and testing process, performance

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: N/A

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Within one working day
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: We provide a technical account manager for every SmartCo engagement

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  SmartCo Consulting take climate change very seriously. ; ; We have a published carbon reduction plan which sets out how we intend to become a carbon neutral company within the next three years. This plan was co-developed with an external environmental consultancy and has been signed by a company director. Details of this plan can be found on our website.; ; Specific examples of what we are implementing this year to combat climate change:; - Use local suppliers/supply chain ; - More accurate employee office utility data collection to better report on teleworking emissions; - Arrange for paper waste collection and destruction services to ensure all paper waste is accounted for and guaranteed shredded and recycled; - Have set office days for employees to reduce office usage to 2-3 days total per week; - Ensure office printers are EPEAT and Energy Star certified; - Ensure employee home offices use LED lighting; - Use energy and battery saving modes on all electronic devices; - Ensure paper used is FSC certified; - Have a reforestation grant in place to offset carbon; - Purchase carbon offsets to reach net zero; ; We also ensure our employees are regularly updated on the latest policies RE climate change.
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  SmartCo have a dedicated internal Wellbeing Officer (ExCo level) and wellbeing plan. Progress against our wellbeing plan and objectives is measured with our ExCo. Most opportunities which support our employee wellbeing are posted on company website. These include: ; - Unlimited annual leave; - Flexible working incl. term time contracts for working mothers/fathers ; - Private healthcare; - Generous L&D budget (personalised per employee); - Knowledge sharing sessions ; - Budget for own kit/materials ; - Multiple wellness initiatives ; ; We also have a strong belief in giving back to our local community. We work with third parties to employee local youth on apprenticeships, ensure a local supply chain to enhance our community. ; ; For certain strategic engagements we have partnerships which ensure we are giving back to our customers communities. This includes:; - A fixed % of revenue to go to the customers local charity of choice ; - Shoulder to shoulder learning and mentoring. We ensure that we leave a legacy, and we leave out customers sustainable when we leave ; - Events/fundraising for local initiatives/charities of our customers

Pricing

• Price: £400 a unit
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at george.jackson@smart-co.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.