Optimized cloud cost and sustainability with GreenFinOps

Evolve from early-stage cloud adoption to mature, efficient, and sustainable operations.

With 59% of cloud decision-makers* prioritizing cost optimization, implementing GreenFinOps strategies is crucial. Continuously refine your cloud infrastructure by embedding cost and sustainability optimizations at every stage, ensuring long-term efficiency and environmental responsibility.

Sogeti’s Sustainable GreenFinOps journey helps businesses transition from basic cloud adoption to a mature, efficient, and sustainable cloud strategy. By integrating cost governance, AI-driven optimization, and sustainability practices, this approach reduces cloud spending, enhances performance, and minimizes environmental impact. Continuous improvement and proactive monitoring ensure long-term efficiency and accountability in cloud operations.
_{*Source: Flexera State of the Cloud Report}

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The GreenFinOps’ holistic approach not only optimized costs but also embedded sustainability into the client’s digital strategy.

A large multinational insurance company faced significant hurdles managing their cloud costs and carbon footprint. Among the primary challenges were a lack of accountability for rising consumption costs, a siloed operational model across business domains, and no unified dashboard to provide holistic visibility. These issues led to inefficiencies, unchecked cloud expenditure, and limited progress on sustainability goals.

That’s when the company partnered with Sogeti.

Through Sogeti’s GreenFinOps approach—part of its cloud managed services—the organization began a transformation based on accountability, collaboration, and purpose. By fostering operational accountability and promoting an Optimization-by-Design mindset, teams across domains collaborated with shared objectives. Proactive monitoring was deployed using best-in-class tooling, enabling early detection of cost inefficiencies and performance bottlenecks. Continuous right-sizing and rigorous performance engineering ensured that cloud resources closely matched actual workload requirements.

With best-in-class proactive monitoring tools, inefficiencies were spotted early. Cloud resources were continuously right-sized with rigorous performance engineering to match real workload needs. And for the first time, decision-makers could see the full picture—a single pane of truth showing both financial and environmental impact in real time.

Crucially, Sogeti’s approach amplified sustainability: CO2 impact awareness and actionable recommendations were integrated into routine governance, inspiring informed decision-making across the company.

15%

reduction in total cloud TCO in just one year

Over 800kg

of GHG emissions eliminated

15%

reduction in total cloud TCO in just one year

Over 800kg

of GHG emissions eliminated

Explore our solutions

Empower your business with phased, end-to-end solutions that bring strategic insight and innovation, helping your organization navigate challenges and drive growth.

1. Observe through full transparency

To get started we will begin with a thorough assessment of your current cloud landscape, leveraging advanced analytics and full transparency to visualize usage, costs, and performance metrics. We’ll conduct a comprehensive Cloud Landscape Assessment, including resource utilization, performance metrics, and cost analysis. By leveraging AI-driven tools, we’ll gain deep insights into your cloud usage patterns, identifying inefficiencies and potential areas for optimization. We’ll create dashboards that offer real-time visibility into cloud costs, resource allocation, and performance metrics, ensuring full transparency.

We’ll start by identifying cost inefficiencies in your current cloud landscape to drive future cost reduction. Our team will analyze your cloud environment to assess how effectively resources are being utilized. We’ll implement dashboards and visualization tools to provide real-time visibility into cloud usage, costs, and performance. By establishing a baseline for cloud performance through comprehensive assessments, we’ll set up opportunities for continuous improvement.

2. Organize through Cloud Foundation

We will help you build or refine your cloud foundation to align with your strategic business goals, focusing on security, governance, and scalability across multi-cloud environments. We will start by developing or refining security protocols and governance structures to protect your data and ensure compliance with industry standards. Next, we’ll design a scalable multi-cloud architecture that aligns with your business objectives and supports seamless integration across platforms. Together, we’ll establish clear policies for resource management, access controls, and cost governance to maintain alignment with your strategic goals.

We’ll refine your security protocols and governance frameworks to ensure compliance with industry standards. Our team will design and implement a scalable multi-cloud architecture that aligns with your business goals and supports seamless integration. We’ll also implement governance and policies that ensure clear visibility into resource management and cloud costs.

3. Optimize through cloud cost governance

First we will implement robust cost governance and performance optimization strategies, integrating AI-driven insights and change management to enhance efficiency and sustainability. We’ll start by introducing robust frameworks for monitoring and managing cloud expenditures, ensuring cost efficiency. Utilizing AI and machine learning, we’ll continuously optimize resource allocation, workload management, and performance tuning. Additionally, we’ll develop and implement a change management strategy to guide the transition to optimized cloud operations, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum adoption.

Our experts will implement cost governance frameworks to monitor and reduce cloud expenditures. Leveraging AI and machine learning tools, we’ll continuously optimize resource allocation and workload management. We’ll track how effectively change management strategies guide your organization through the transition to optimized cloud operations. Finally, we’ll begin embedding sustainability practices into cloud operations to reduce environmental impact.

4. Operationalize continuous excellence

How can we help. We will help build a a culture of continuous improvement through automation, innovation, and proactive monitoring. We’ll implement automation tools for routine tasks and use AI-driven monitoring to resolve issues before they impact operations. Leveraging Gen AI, we’ll ensure ongoing application performance monitoring and health checks to keep systems optimized.

We’ll integrate showback and chargeback mechanisms with business units for clear visibility into cloud costs and usage, driving accountability and value realization. Additionally, we’ll regularly update systems and processes to adapt to evolving business needs and technology advancements.

We’ll measure the success of automation for routine cloud tasks by increasing efficiency. Using Gen AI and proactive monitoring, we’ll continuously improve application and cloud performance. Showback and chargeback mechanisms will ensure accurate cost visibility and accountability to business units. We’ll create a culture of innovation and ongoing improvement, regularly updating systems to align with evolving technologies and business needs. Finally, our experts will optimize cloud infrastructure with sustainability goals, tracking reductions in environmental impact.