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Chargeback and showback for cost transparency

Boost clarity with Data Infrastructure Insights

With comprehensive visibility into storage utilization across both multi-cloud and on-premises environments, NetApp® Data Infrastructure Insights provides the granular insights necessary for precise chargeback and showback reporting.

The challenge of transparent storage costs

Managing storage costs while enabling financial transparency through chargeback and showback has become a growing challenge as organizations adopt more complex infrastructures. Many businesses struggle with obtaining the granular visibility needed to accurately assess resource consumption and allocate costs across departments or business units. This lack of insight creates barriers to financial clarity and accountablity.
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Seamless collaboration for maximum efficiency

By delivering effortless reporting tailored to business needs, Data Infrastructure Insights enables seamless collaboration between storage and finance teams. This fosters an environment of shared accountability and drives alignment with organizational goals, making it easier than ever to manage storage expenses while maximizing efficiency.
Demystifying Chargeback and showback

Demystifying chargeback and showback

Data Infrastructure Insights empowers IT professionals to deliver clear and reliable chargeback and showback data from your entire hybrid infrastructure to map storage consumption directly to departments.

5 key benefits of Data Infrastructure Insights

  1. Centralize data collection
    Instead of stitching together data from disparate systems, Data Infrastructure Insights centralizes all storage performance and consumption information in one place, giving storage teams a complete view of their hybrid ecosystems.
  2. Transform raw data into business insights
    Granular tagging and annotations enable teams to define costs across service levels, storage tiers, workloads, or business units, uncover the full business context behind resource usage, and apply governance practices to trace every resource back to its usage and cost.
  3. Achieve transparent cost allocation
    Simplify chargeback and showback processes by eliminating manual data aggregation and leveraging precise, defensible metrics to ensure costs are allocated fairly and transparently across departments.
  4. Streamline reporting for finance teams
    Automatically generate accurate, actionable reports tailored to finance team requirements. With seamless integrations into finance systems, teams can eliminate manual efforts and ensure consistent data flow.
  5. Optimize resource utilization
    Effortlessly identify underutilized storage resources to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and allocate costs based on actual usage. This approach ensures IT teams can better align storage investments with broader business objectives.

Reporting efficiency for billing went from 2.5 days per month using Excel sheets to about one minute with custom reporting in Data Infrastructure Insights, saving our team nearly 30 working days a year.

IT Analyst Manager for a large municipal government 

Additional Resources

Smarter IT cost allocation

Discover a pragmatic approach to building effective cost allocation models and the common challenges IT leaders face.
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Optimize storage costs

See how organizations are looking to accurately allocate storage expenses back through to the business units and departments that are using them.
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Storage cost transparency

Explore how Data Infrastructure Insights boosts collaboration, provides unified observability, and empowers decision making.
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