case study
Industry
Leasing & Mobility Software
Cloud Suite
Microsoft Azure
Results
Identified over €750,000 in annual savings
context
Client Context & Background
The client, a global leasing and mobility software company, needed to regain control of a cloud environment that had grown faster than the governance around it. Rising costs, legacy application complexity, and insufficient tagging meant leadership had limited visibility into where money was being spent, which customers were profitable, and which workloads were carrying technical debt. A deep dive revealed that key Virtual Machines were being utilized at less than 4% of their capacity, and the legacy application estate was preventing the team from adopting modern, scalable cloud features.
Results
Results & Outcomes Achieved
The engagement identified more than €750,000 in potential annual savings, with €58,000 immediately realizable at zero business risk through unused resource cleanup and no-regret storage reservations. A further €625,000+ was available through rightsizing of VMs, databases and disks, auto-scheduling of non-production environments, and chipset upgrades that also improved performance by 20–30%. An additional €115,000 in annualised savings was identified through a reservations analysis once wastage and rightsizing activities were complete. The client also received a fit-for-purpose tagging strategy and a FinOps maturity assessment to sustain the gains.
Process
Our Process & Key Observations
Finabeo ran a two-week Discovery Phase covering the full Azure estate. Using Optimus, the team analysed resource utilisation across VMs, databases and disks to quantify wastage and rightsizing opportunities. Immediate realisation initiatives were identified first, including orphaned resources and storage reservations with no business impact. A validation and impact assessment then quantified rightsizing savings, auto-scheduling opportunities for non-production environments, and chipset upgrade benefits. Finally, a reservations analysis priced the discount opportunity on the remaining stable workloads. The engagement concluded with a FinOps maturity assessment and tagging strategy to embed governance.
