EQS-News: USU Launches Automated FinOps Solution to Eliminate Manual Cloud Cost Management

Möglingen, Germany – February 27, 2025 

USU, a leading provider of IT management solutions, introduces USU FinOps, a new solution designed to enhance transparency and optimize cloud cost control. Many companies struggle with managing their cloud expenses. Traditional FinOps tools often require significant manual effort and expertise to analyze costs and identify savings opportunities. 

Automated Cloud Cost Optimization with USU FinOps

USU FinOps simplifies this process by combining a FinOps-certified platform with comprehensive enterprise support, enabling fast and automated cloud cost optimization. 

Designed to meet the demand of cloud cost management initiatives, the solution provides comprehensive showback and chargeback capabilities, and it can identify cost anomalies in near-real time. It can also track budget by any unit economic to inform stakeholders, enhancing collaboration and accountability throughout the budget cycles.   

“With USU FinOps customers can convert cloud spend into business growth through modern technology that ensures governance, complete visibility, and instant allocation across all cloud infrastructure expenses,” said Christopher Brune, Director Product Management SaaS & FinOps at USU.  

“The new FinOps solution helps companies to gain a deep understanding of all cloud costs and convert cloud investments into measurable benefits,” said Robbie Plourde, Principal Solution Engineer at USU. “As a solution provider, we support customers in successfully establishing a holistic FinOps strategy in their organization.” 
 

Key Features 

• Intuitive dashboards and centralized opportunities to optimize costs and eliminate waste  
• Using real-time data insights to make informed decisions, adjust forecasts, track budgets, or optimize resource usage as needed 
• Virtual tagging to facilitate transparent cloud spend breakdowns, allowing for a more refined reallocation of shared expenses based on actual consumption 
• Multi-cloud visibility through integration with AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI but also Kubernetes, Datadog, Databricks, Snowflake and more 
• Cloud Unit Economics by measuring the value of cloud by linking costs to business outcomes.  

Dedicated Enterprise Support 

USU FinOps is built on best-in-class technology combined with enterprise service to ensure a fast and seamless FinOps implementation, maintaining high data quality through continuous monitoring, and providing cost visibility strategies review. An in-house team of FinOps-certified experts support customers through all phases of their FinOps lifecycle and scale up as the company matures its FinOps processes. 

The new USU FinOps solution is available now.   

For more information about USU, visit here

About USU
As a leading provider of software and service solutions for IT and customer service management, we help organizations optimize their IT resources in the age of cloud and AI. Businesses worldwide rely on us to modernize their IT infrastructure, reduce cloud costs, and ensure service excellence.

With our technologies, we provide comprehensive transparency and control over hybrid IT environments – from on-premises data centers to cloud-based resources and hardware assets. Additionally, our AI-powered platform serves as a central knowledge base, delivering consistent information across all communication channels and customer service operations.

For more information: https://www.usu.com/en-us/

Media Contact

USU GmbH
Corporate Communications
Dr. Thomas Gerick
Email:  thomas.gerick@usu.com