Start with insights. Optimize. Innovate.

To maximize the value of the cloud, we focus on both cost reductions as well as technical enhancements. We adhere to the principles of FinOps and its three phases:


  1. Inform: know what you spend, where you spend it and who is responsible
  2. Optimize: eliminate unnecessary costs and accelerate innovation
  3. Operate: embed a culture of FinOps culture and continuous improvements
Argus PRO framework

Reduce cost without slowing innovation? It is possible.

Argus, our internally developed FinOps tool forms a perfect basis. Let your internal IT team embrace Argus, or ask for guidance from the FinOps consultants and DevOps engineers from Hippo or one of our partners. By following the three FinOps phases you work in a structured manner and it ensures continuous savings without sacrificing performance, security or innovation.

Step 1: visualize cost insights

Argus correlates cost with applications, departments, environments and resources. Cost data is visualized clearly and reported to IT, business and finance. Changes and anomalies are detected and evaluated.

Azure optimization on 3 dimensions

Procure

Truly control your spend and lower cost through:

  • Significant discounts (Reserved Instances and/or Savings Plan)
  • Fully transparant cost and invoicing data
  • Clear insights in all your subscriptions and environments

Rightsize

Eliminate unnecessary cost, without sacrificing performance, by:

  • Terminating unused and orphaned resources
  • Scale down underutilized and oversized components
  • Enable workload-optimized instances with better cost efficiency

Optimize

Gain competitive advantage through advanced optimizations and modernizations.

  • Ensure more and better output from your development team and go-to-market quicker
  • Get AI ready and work data-driven with confidence.
  • Reduce external dependency for support and managed services

Internal alignment

IT wants to resolve technical dept, Business wants to innovate and Finance requests budget control. All three are important, but seem impossible to balance as long as internal stakeholders don't speak the same language.

We align organizations by correlating Azure costs to applications, processes and projects. You'll see workload costs, unexpected or high cost increases at a glance and what triggered them.

Improved predictability

Argus not only shows (historical) cost, it also supports forecasting. Our forecasting engine is ML-driven and uses advanced models to improve budget management.

Keep in control by setting budget on applications, processes and projects. Receive proactive alerts in case of unexpected anomalies in costs or usage patterns. No more surprises, get alerts before it is too late.

Optimize your Azure estate

Our ML-generated recommendations show you where to optimize your environment technically and financially. You can finally reduce cost without risking uptime or performance.

All recommendations come 'evidence-based' for human control. No black box, we share all metrics that led to our recommendations and the Argus AI assistant answers all your questions on cost, security, compliance and more.

Estimate your savings potential

90% of organizations is overpaying. Argus delivers results within a month.

  1. Day 1

    Argus reads out your environment; the first insights are available almost immediately.

  2. Week 1

    Discuss the insights internally and connect applications, processes and other workloads.

  3. Week 2

    Get sight of the first procure and rightsizing opportunities or your environment.

  4. Week 3

    Determine your priorities and create a FinOps based. plan of approach

  5. Week 4+

    Start optimizing your Cloud estate! By yourself or in collaboration with (a partner of) Hippo.

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Argus pricing & FinOps support

Our goal is to offer Argus in such a way that its return on investment exceeds the cost of Argus by miles.

Monthly Azure spend:

  1. Business: €199/month
    <15,000 EUR per month
  2. Corporate: €399/month
    15,000 - 30,000 EUR per month
  3. Enterprise: €699/month
    30,000 - 90,000 EUR per month


Does your monthly Azure spend exceed 90,000 euro? Please contact us for a custom proposal.

Do you also want guidance from our FinOps experts? Let's meet and discuss your cost challenges and problems that need attention.

Hippo is FinOps certified

Hippo works exclusively with FinOps certified experts that have extensive experience at the intersection of IT, business and finance.

And in the rare case our FinOps experts are confronted with highly specialized use case or issues, they can rely on a team of DevOps and Data Engineers.


Regain control over Microsoft cost and manage risk with Argus.

Start today. Save smart and create budget for key IT projects that are waiting for funds. We're happy to demonstrate how Argus helps.

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