Cloud Expense Management

Finance-first lens for Cloud Expense Management

Allocate, chargeback and report on Cloud expense.
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Telecom expense reporting dashboard showing billing and service reports

View. Allocate. Optimise. Report.

Efficiently Manage Provider Billing

Consolidate Cloud Billing into a comprehensive platform for analysis, allocation and reporting governance.

Optimise Your Cloud Inventory

Optimise spend and make the right decisions with detailed usage and expense analytics across resources across cloud providers.

Deliver Accountability and Governance

Consolidate resource costs for allocation and reporting against business functions and cost centres. Deliver ownership to those who manage.

Resource Management

Through an easy-to-use interface, map your Cloud resource costs to two categories of reporting entities; User and Cost Centre. A resource can be allocated based on percentage to an unlimited number of entities.

User mapping links resources to the business use case, whether this be a function, location or person. This powers organisational reporting on the business purpose.

Cost Centre mapping links resources to the Cost Centre for financial reporting.

Telecom bill analysis dashboard showing billing data and cost movements
Telecom cost allocation dashboard showing service costs assigned to cost centres

Provider Cost & Usage

Bring Cloud Provider cost and usage data together in one platform to easily review monthly spend, link to users and cost centres, and identify optimisation opportunities. Have visibility on consolidated spend, while quickly drilling down to Provider and resource level.

Have the cost information your IT teams see in the Provider portals in one place.

Business Reporting

View and report on Cloud spend based on your business mapping. Report on associated user association for operational accountability, ROI management and governance.

Service Management – Telecom Expense Management
Telecom expense reporting dashboard showing billing and service reports

Cost Centre Reporting

View and report on Cloud spend based on your Cost Centre hierarchy. Export billing accounts into a General Ledger file for inclusion in your ERP.

Configuration

Configure your platform to manage data in context of your organisation or industry.

  • Unlimited custom User categories
  • Unlimited Custom Fields for User
  • Map to User and Cost Centre, just one or none
Telecom expense management custom fields configuration screen

Universal capability:

  • Powerful universal search
  • Flexible cost allocation models
  • Rich API framework and Webhooks for integration
  • Prebuilt ServiceNow connector available in store
  • Easy to manage bulk update functionality for entity data
  • Activity logs across all entities for governance
  • Batch reporting with authentication link functionality to simplify non-platform users to consume information securely
  • Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication

Questions About Cloud Expense Management

Cloud expense management is the process of tracking, allocating and controlling an organisation's spend on cloud services, such as infrastructure, platforms and software subscriptions. It gives finance and IT visibility of what is being used and by whom, links costs to the teams, business use cases and cost centres responsible, and helps identify unused or oversized services.

Bluewater CONNECT helps organisations manage cloud by bringing cloud provider billing and usage data into one consolidated platform. Enhanced visibility for both IT and Finance, without having to log in and interpret the different cloud billing platforms. View, analyse and report on billing data against provider, business function and cost centre.

Bluewater CONNECT offers easy to use set up integration flows where customers assign billing read on rights to our platform through the Cloud Providers API interface. Using a secure approach we will ingest the Cloud data into CONNECT.

We are currently offering integrations with Azure, AWS and Claude Platform. Coming are Claude.ai Enterprise, OpenAI and Microsoft 365.Our plan is to roll out new integrations every month based on our customer base requirements. 

Yes. Cloud costs all the way down to resource/seat level can be fully allocated or partly allocated by percentage to People, Business Functions and Cost Centres. Allocations can be through bulk update and/or easy to use platform interface, making it seamless to ensure all cloud expense is mapped.

Yes. We offer visualisation and reporting on a cloud provider, business function and cost centre basis. Our approach provides the flexibility for customers to manage reporting and governance in line with their operational approach to cloud. 

Monthly general ledger file extracts provide seamless allocation of cloud expenses into an organisation's ERPs. Simply download pre-configured GL files for uploading into your ERP.

Yes. Our Automated Workflow Engine can help automate actions and notifications to manage your telecom fleet via email, Slack or Teams.

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