FinOps
Cloud cost intelligence for your whole business.
Accurate, auditable, and accessible.
FinOps teams need timely access to raw financial data to enable effective analysis, forecasting, and decision making.
This can be a time consuming, manual process that leads to delayed reporting, human error, data inconsistencies and a lack of real-time management.
Cloud management cost challenges
Fragmented Visibility
Operating a hybrid multi-cloud environment across AWS, Azure, and on-premises systems without a single, unified view of all costs.
Complex Cost Allocation
Difficulty accurately allocating shared costs and applying chargebacks across different platforms and business units.
Disconnected Tooling
Relying on a mix of disconnected tools—from AWS Cost Explorer to custom scripts—prevents a single source of truth for financial data.
Inefficient Expenditure Tracking
Uncontrolled cloud expenditure and discount tracking leading to budget overruns. This further leads to challenges in forecasting and cloud investment planning.
Meeting Regulatory Overhead
Ensuring complete cost transparency and data residency to meet strict regulatory requirements, adds a layer of complexity to financial operations.
20fifty has developed a serverless, automated and scalable FinOps solution that reduces manual effort, improves data accuracy, and enables self-service analytics.
Our track record
speaks for itself.
Key customer challenges
Multiple service providers with no unified view of costs.
FinOps team spending 22+ days per month manually compiling reports.
No centralized access to cloud cost data.
Inconsistent cost allocation making it difficult to attribute expenses.
No way to forecast cloud spend accurately, leading to budget overruns.
20fifty’s FinOps solution
The 20fifty FinOps solution provides complete visibility and control over your cloud environment, enabling you to optimize your spending, enforce accountability, and align cloud investments with business results.
A customized ETL framework for all cloud and service provider datasets.
A unified data model that’s aligned with your business structure.
A single source of truth for cloud financial management.
Self-service analytics dashboards for all stakeholders.
77% efficiency gain with Africa’s 1st serverless FinOps Solution
A leading South African financial services group faced significant inefficiencies in financial operations, with practitioners spending excessive time on manual processes.
The monthly PO Bulk file generation required 22 days of complex Athena queries and Excel manipulations. Teams lacked centralized access to cloud cost data, leading to delayed reporting and increased risk of errors in financial analysis.
Challenge
The financial services group partnered with AWS and 20fifty to build a serverless solution.
This unified platform automates ETL workflows and centralizes financial data from multiple sources, including AWS CUR, Trusted Advisor & Config as well as Excel files, and PDFs.
The implementation includes QuickSight dashboards providing tailored insights for business users, creating a single source of truth for cloud cost management.
Solution
The solution has transformed financial operations, reducing monthly report generation from 22 days, to less than a week while eliminating error-prone manual processes. Teams now have real-time access to normalized financial data, enabling data-driven decision-making.
The 77% improvement in workflow efficiency has freed up the FinOps team to focus on strategic initiatives, while automated processes ensure accurate cost allocation and reporting across the organization.
Impact
“This project exemplifies what's possible when we embrace automation and cloud-native solutions. By reducing our monthly reporting time from 22 days to just 5 days, we've not only improved efficiency but transformed how our teams interact with financial data. Working with AWS and our implementation partner 20fifty, the FinOps Solution has become the backbone of our FinOps practice, enabling real-time decision making and fostering a culture of financial accountability across feature teams.”
— Jacqui Wilson
FinOps Lead, Old Mutual South Africa
Measurable results
Key product features
Enhance decision making
Real-time access to accurate financial data from multiple cloud providers to improve data-driven decision-making capabilities across your business.
Error reduction
Reduced manual data handling, leading to fewer errors and a decrease in queries from business departments.
Real-time centralized access
Access to a centralized presentation layer enriched with business rules, that provides role based access to financial data for relevant teams.
Auditable and traceable data management
The solution applies auditable data management principles, including time stamping data changes and controlling access to subsets of data, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Improved turnaround time & enhanced operational efficiency
Automated extraction, transformation and loading of data that reduces the need for manual labour and increases operational efficiency.
Self-service analytics
Empower team members to manage their account spend autonomously, reducing reliance on the FinOps team for routine queries.
Increased team capacity
Free up time that enables your team to focus on upskilling and strategic work, enabling them to handle additional responsibilities, particularly from a BI perspective.
Key technical features
Automated ETL Workflows
No more manual data manipulation. The system automatically ingests, transforms, and enriches data from multiple sources.
Self-service Analytics
Business users can create their own reports and dashboards without depending on the FinOps team.
Real-time Processing
Teams can now access financial data in real time, not month-old reports.
Comprehensive Monitoring
Built-in observability with automated alerts and audit trails.
Scalable Architecture
Serverless design means it automatically scales with demand whilst keeping costs predictable.
Multi-cloud data integration
AWS
GCP
Custom Sources
Azure
Looking for a FinOps solution with a proven track record?
We understand your world: We are experts in the complexities of FinOps for regulated industries. We have a proven track record of delivering transformative results.
A partnership, not just a platform: We work as an extension of your team. The POC is a collaborative program designed to deliver tangible value from day one.
Clarity before commitment: We offer a POC option that is designed to provide a data-driven business case for a full-scale rollout. You will see the solution’s value with your own data before making a long-term commitment.