What do you actually need?
See which Azure capacity is justified by the workload, rather than by assumptions, averages or historical sizing decisions.
Azure Cloud Financial Management
Your Azure bill shows what you bought.
We determine what you actually need.
Sciante measures whether the Azure capacity you pay for is necessary, identifies what can safely change and gives your team the evidence to control cloud spend.
30 minutes. No technical access required.
Azure capacityMeasured baseline
Billed
100%
Observed
Measured
Necessary
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CostConfigurationPerformance
The decision layerThe number your invoice cannot show.
The limit of visibility
You can see where every dollar goes.
That still doesn’t tell you whether it needs to be spent.
Azure reporting can show spend, utilization, idle resources and rightsizing opportunities. It cannot establish, on its own, whether the capacity is still necessary.
A brief peak can make permanent capacity look justified. An active resource can support a workload that no longer creates enough business value.
Visibility explains where the money went. Control begins with knowing whether the capacity is necessary.
A different question
Your existing tools manage the environment.
Sciante answers a different question.
Azure portals, FinOps platforms and MSPs provide valuable cost visibility and day-to-day cloud management. Sciante adds the measurement and context needed to determine whether the capacity behind that spend is actually necessary.
What you already haveWhat Sciante adds
Where is Azure spend occurring?Why does this capacity exist?
Is the resource active?Is the workload still necessary?
What were the minimum, maximum and average?How long did demand last, and what caused it?
What does each resource cost?How do resources affect one another?
What could be rightsized?What does the evidence support changing?
Sciante works alongside your internal team, MSP and existing tools. It adds the evidence needed to decide what should change.
Four answers
The questions visibility alone cannot answer.
What can you stop paying for?
Identify resources, capacity and configurations that no longer deliver enough technical or business value to justify their cost.
What should change first?
Prioritize savings opportunities by financial impact, technical evidence and the action required from your team.
What can you safely decide?
Understand which changes are supported by the measurements and which require further investigation before action is taken.
The result is not another list of recommendations. It is a prioritized basis for action.
Measured results
What deeper measurement uncovered.
A real-estate investor’s Azure environment was already professionally managed. Its IT manager believed no meaningful savings remained. Sciante identified €92,000 in actionable opportunities across €400,000 in annual Azure spend.
A holding realized €120,000 in cumulative Azure savings over twelve months. The savings were visible on its cloud invoices, even as the organization continued its cloud migration.
Within two weeks, Sciante identified and substantiated €300,000 in potential savings across €900,000 in analyzed Azure spend.
Client names are withheld to protect confidentiality. Individual results vary. Amounts are shown in the original engagement currency.
How it works
Measure first. Decide with evidence.
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Start with the question
In a 30-minute Cloud Savings Review, we discuss your Azure environment, current cost controls and the questions your existing tools cannot answer. No technical access is required.
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Establish a measured baseline
Sciante analyzes Azure cost data, configuration data and performance metrics through read-only access. No application data is required.
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Turn findings into priorities
Your team receives substantiated savings opportunities, their financial impact and clear recommendations on what should change first.
- 04
Keep control of the environment
Your internal team or MSP decides which recommendations to approve and implements them through the existing change process. Sciante cannot make changes to your Azure environment.
Find out whether a measured baseline is the right next step for your organization.
Schedule a Cloud Savings ReviewCloud Financial Management
From a measured baseline to ongoing financial control.
Azure environments keep changing. New workloads appear, demand shifts and yesterday’s necessary capacity can become tomorrow’s avoidable cost. Sciante brings measurement, financial control and ownership together in three levels.
Cloud Spend Insights™
Know what you pay for. Understand what you actually need.
Establish a measured baseline, identify substantiated savings opportunities and give your team clear priorities for action.
Explore Cloud Spend Insights →Cloud Financial Control™
Cloud costs you can finally control.
Continuously monitor spend and capacity, identify new deviations, track savings opportunities and improve financial forecasting.
Explore Cloud Financial Control →Cloud Financial Governance™
Make cloud spend governable.
Connect cost ownership, KPIs, forecasts, trends and management reporting across teams, entities and decision-makers.
Explore Cloud Financial Governance →Additional capability · Performance Troubleshoot
Slow is a symptom.
Find the cause.
When screens freeze, response times rise or incidents keep returning, adding more capacity may only make the problem more expensive. Sciante measures the application chain, identifies what is creating the delay and gives your team a concrete route to improvement.
Explore Performance Troubleshoot →01
Frozen Screen ScanLocate where users experience the delay.
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Application Health Check™Measure the application chain and identify the root cause.
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Application Optimizer™Turn findings into a prioritized optimization roadmap.
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Application Health Monitoring™Detect problems before they escalate.
About Sciante
Experience turns measurement into meaning.
Sciante LLC is a New York-registered US company, building on more than 16 years of proven IT optimization expertise developed at Sciante Measurement B.V. in the Netherlands.
Hugo Van den Berg
Founder & IT Performance Expert
Hugo has spent decades measuring and improving complex IT environments. He works directly with clients to uncover the technical causes behind cloud cost and performance problems that standard reporting leaves unexplained.
Meet Hugo →“You see things we miss because you bring the knowledge to understand what they mean.”Cloud Cost Manager
Cloud Savings Review
Your Azure bill is accurate.
That doesn’t mean every cost is necessary.
In a focused 30-minute conversation, we discuss your Azure environment, current cost controls and the questions your existing tools cannot answer.
Together, we determine whether a measured baseline is a relevant next step for your organization.
Schedule a Cloud Savings Review 30 minutes. No technical access required.