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• Does the tool support Budget & Forecast Analysis for different Clouds?
• Does Exivity support Budget & Forecast Analysis for different Clouds?
• Does Exivity support Cost Allocation for different Clouds?
• What is an Account Report?
• What are Services?
• Extracting data and Extractors
• Transformers
• How are Accounts created?
• What are Lookups?
• What is Metadata?
• Can I create budgets for multiple clouds?
• Does Exivity support Cost Allocation for different Clouds?
• Does the tool support Cloud Usage Optimization for different Clouds?
• Does the tool support Tag Management for different Clouds?
• Is resource discovery supported across CSPs?
• Post resource discovery, is logging supported across CSPs such as AWS, Azure, GCP?
• How scalable is Exivity when data volume increases?
• What is the cost/fee structure for the product?
• Does Exivity support automated invoice/bill creation?
• Does Exivity provide visibility into budget limits vs actual spend?
• Does the tool support Budget & Forecast Analysis for different Clouds?
• Does the tool support Cost Allocation for different Clouds?
• Does the tool support Cloud Usage Optimization for different Clouds?
• Does the tool support Tag Management for different Clouds?
• Are there specific features that are not currently supported for a specific CSP? If the feature is not fully available across CSPs, is the feature in the pipeline in the next 3-6 months?
• Is resource discovery supported across CSPs?
• Post resource discovery, is logging supported across CSPs such as AWS, Azure, GCP?
• Is it possible to discover additional Cloud specific attributes provided by CSPs?
• Does the tool support retrieval of metrics and utilization report for IaaS resources?
• Does the tool support retrieval of metrics and utilization report for PaaS resources?
• Does the tool support retrieval of metrics and utilization report for SaaS resources?
• Does the tool support intelligent anomaly detection in Cloud costs?
• Does the tool support custom alerts for anomaly detection?
• Does the tool users to cross charge and aggregate cost of shared resources to different business units/areas?
• Does the tool retrieve billing and spend data across different Cloud service providers?
• Does the tool provide support to create chargeback and show back models?
• Does the tool support automated invoice/bill creation?
• Does the tool support validation of cost allocation metadata such as tags?
• Does the tool support custom tag validation based on specified character set?
• Does the tool support creating, editing and deleting of metadata irrespective of the underlying CSP?
• Does the tool show reserved instance capacity analysis and provide recommendations?
• Does the tool support rightsizing cost recommendations across different CSPs?
• Does the tool provide cost saving recommendations for IaaS resources?
• Does the tool provide cost saving recommendations for PaaS resources?
• Does the tool provide cost saving recommendations for SaaS resources?
• Does the tool support spot market analysis and provide savings recommendations?
• Does the tool support cross-provider price comparison and recommendations?
• Does the tool support resource provisioning and lifecycle management?
• Does the tool support automated spot provisioning and management?
• Does the tool provide basic clean-up recommendations to reduce cost and improve performance?
• Does the tool provide health check alerts for resources?
• Does the tool support starting, stopping, restarting VMs/Servers at scheduled intervals?
• Does the tool provide automated implementation of recommendations, inc. maintenance window scheduling?
• Does the tool support native integration with Change & Incident Management?
• Does the tool support automated compliance auditing for CSPs?
• Does the tool support automated compliance remediation?
• Does the tool allow specifying custom compliance audit rules for automated auditing?
• Does the tool provide visibility into budget limits vs actual spend?
• Does the tool provide visibility into budget limits vs forecast spend
• Does the tool provide budget threshold alerting, against actual and forecast amounts?
• Does the tool support run rate forecasting & budget projections?
• Does the tool support KPI and reports for Cost and Budgets?
• Does the tool support trend and variance analysis for Cost & Budgets?
• Can the tool handle multi-Cloud or Hybrid Cloud environments and provide consolidated carbon footprint data?
• How does the tool collect data on Cloud resource usage and energy consumption?
• What is the methodology used to calculate carbon emissions for different types of Cloud resources (e.g., virtual machines, storage, network)?
• Can the tool provide insights (such as trend analysis and forecasting capabilities) into carbon emissions in Cloud operations?
• What types of reports and visualizations does the tool provide for carbon footprint data?
• Does the tool provide recommendations on reducing carbon emissions, optimizing resource usage, adopting energy-efficient configurations, or leveraging renewable energy options?
• Are there security controls in place for client data management?
• How scalable is the tool when data volume increases?
• Which regulatory standards is the tool compliant with?
• How does the tool offer support for integration and deployment ensuring ease of implementation?
• How frequent are updates and new features released?
• What is your average SLA for resolving tool incidents and customer support tickets?
• What is the cost/fees structure for the product?
• How many users are using the tool?
• What other Cloud/traditional IT cost management capabilities does the tool currently support?
• What other tool integrations are supported?
• What levels of customization is supported in the tool?
• How many out-of-the-box use cases are supported? Are any benchmarking algorithms applied for analysis?
• Does the solution connect to public clouds to obtain pricing dynamically? How many public clouds does the solution integrate with at time?
• Can the solution manage budgets allocated at the application and resource group and/or subscription level? Can budgets be set by cloud consumption groups with time limits for usage?
• Are users able to set alerts for percentage usage levels? Does altering the budget integrate with in-house tools?
• Does the solution leverage a fixed, customer-provided allocation formula to allocate cloud costs to applications or products for shared costs?
• Does the solution allocate costs to applications and/or products? Does the solution contain the ability to showback costs to business and application owners?
• Does this process enable holding different organizations accountable for spend? Can spending adjustments be made?
• Can the solution leverage enterprise security applications and audit controls? Does the tool support authentication, authorization, and audit controls to meet basic accounting requirements?
• Does the tool integrate with existing security tools such as Active Directory and LDAP?
• Does the solution show variances between budget and actuals? Does the solution analyze trends and forecast future spending in near real time? Does this analysis process work with variable costs?
• At a high level, what is your solution?
• Is your solution a single product, multiple integrated products, or a platform? If a platform, do you use your own private network to deliver cloud services?
• What use cases does your solution support?
• What deployment model does your solution support?
• Please identify 3-5 areas where you excel compared to your competition. Explain.
• Please identify 3-5 areas where you intend to innovate in the next 12-36 months. Include supporting rationale.
• Please identify your 3-4 primary competitors. Explain the reasons why you chose them, and what you are doing to address their competition.
• Please identify 3-5 areas where you need to improve compared to your competition and what you’re doing about it.
• What emerging technologies do you expect to impact this space in the next 18-36 months? Explain.
• Are you already offering or developing your solution here or is this not relevant for your solution?
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