In today’s digital age, cloud computing and infrastructure services have become the backbone of modern enterprises. Companies now rely on an average of 2.2 cloud services to streamline operations, reduce costs, and drive innovation. However, the true value of cloud and infrastructure platforms is often overlooked, leading to underutilization of the cloud and missed business opportunities.
Challenges Facing Data Engineering
Migration from on-premises data centers to cloud brought with it tremendous agility, where small teams could deploy new applications in support of business needs like never before. But this rapid adoption was not without drawbacks.
With up to 51% of IT spending projected to shift to cloud by 2025, enterprise leaders are increasingly concerned about the cost of cloud computing. The value it has brought their organizations has been baked into the operating model and is being taken for granted. Many organizations are starting to attempt to wrangle their cloud spend, with only half an eye towards value they might be missing out on.
Cloud Platform teams are caught in the middle of this changing of the tides. Their mission has long been to support enterprise development teams: automating critical, but difficult tasks such as infrastructure tagging, LDAP integration, IP and firewall management, and ensure reliable access to DevOps tools for source code version control and automated deployments.
Measuring Value for Cloud Platforms
The blueprint for measuring the value of Cloud Platforms has already been established by the hyperscalers. Cloud Platforms within the enterprise must use a diverse set of business models to align the value proposition of their services with the incentives of their internal customers: often developers.
Technology and developer teams benefit from business models that align the technical foundations of a service with its chargeback model. As a result, Cloud Platform teams are well positioned to meter their services by data volume used or number of requests.
Providing customers showbacks or chargebacks based on data-volume metering is excellent for things like deployment services, code scanners, or wherever underlying cost scales by volume. Providing customers showbacks or chargebacks based on request is a good fit for fixed-cost offerings like LDAP or SSO integration.
The Trufflow Advantage
Trufflow is a software platform that makes it easy to tie business value to enterprise software, including homegrown applications, commercial SaaS offerings, data, and everything in between. The Trufflow platform provides cloud platform product owners key metrics used across the software industry like requests per user, month over month recurring volume, and user churn. With Trufflow, you can increase the efficiency of your technology spend and gain unprecedented visibility into your IT value chain.
