Empower Cost Management

Empower Cost Management is a managed service provided by Hitachi Solutions that help customers visualize their Azure cost data in Power BI.

There are several capabilities that customers may elect to leverage:
Power BI & Self Service → Hitachi will build dashboards utilizing Power BI to provide cost analytics. These dashboards are sophisticated and help customers understand Azure costs with a high level of fit and finish. Hitachi can provide training at an additional cost.​
Budget and Alert Management → Hitachi may identify, inventory, and develop alerting/escalation policies on budgets for the Azure environment. This facility will help avoid run-away costs and keep the organization in line with its internal budgetary obligations.​
Cost Optimization → Hitachi may leverage tooling to ascertain assets in the Azure environments (VMs, and other PaaS services) that are mis-sized based on their utilization, or where Hitachi may have IP that allows dynamic scaling (auto-scaling) on an Azure service. When Hitachi detects these opportunities, Hitachi may open tickets with the environment owners identified during the implementation period to accept or reject the recommendation. ​
Reservation Management→ Hitachi may leverage Azure Cost Management along with its more sensitive proprietary tooling to ensure Client’s environment have the correct reservations in place to take advantage of Azure’s deep discounts for workloads that are constant, or have minimums in the Client’s environments. ​
Cost Allocation → Hitachi may develop a policy and approach for the customer to allocate costs to individual business units for internal management and reporting. This facility can be used for chargebacks, if applicable to the customer. ​
Ongoing Updates and Support → Hitachi, leveraging its client base, will roll out ongoing updates and feature enhancements in a managed way. Our goal is to provide continuous improvements on top of the Azure ecosystem, automatically.