The Who
- Major body for human resources professionals
- Headquartered in the UK
- 150,000 members worldwide
The Challenge
- Poor visibility over Azure spend led to unexpected spikes in cost
- Incumbent supplier offered limited insight into breakdown of Azure spend
- Business growing - with Azure costs starting to get out of control
- No ability to self-serve subscription changes
The Solution
- Transitioned to Servium's cloud billing platform
- Targeted high-cost environments to reduce spend
- Changed from standard licensing to reserved instances - leading to a two thirds reduction in costs
- Regular reviews of consumption ensures costs are kept under control
- Full training for use of Servium's cloud platform
The Benefits
- Complete cost transparency
- Technical pre-sales to help customer review infrastructure and find opportunities for further savings
- Total Azure monthly spend reduced by £5000
- Servium offers guidance and support
- When spikes in demand occur, root cause can be easily established
- Can self-serve subscriptions and evaluate potential costs before committing to changes
Why Servium?
- Pre-existing relationship with the customer
- Incumbent supplier was overcharging for cloud
- Led with what was right for the customer, rather than what was most profitable
- Trusted Servium to guide them properly
