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Verify accuracy of provider invoices aka invoice reconciliation

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Allocation

Allocate multi-currency charges per applicationAnalyze effective cost by pricing currencyAnalyze purchase of virtual currencyAnalyze tag coverageDetermine target of virtual currency usageIdentify sources of billed costReport corrections by subaccount for a previously invoiced billing periodVerify accuracy of provider invoices aka invoice reconciliation

Anomaly Management

Analyze costs by service nameAnalyze service costs by regionCompare resource usage month over monthIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccountIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccount and regionIdentify anomalous daily spending by subaccount, region, and serviceIdentify unused capacity reservations

Budgeting

Calculate consumption of virtual currency within a billing periodCompare billed cost per subaccount to budgetUpdate budgets for each applicationUpdate budgets with billed costs

Data Ingestion

Verify Accuracy of Provider InvoicesVerify accuracy of services charges across providersVerify discount accuracy for previously invoiced billing period

Forecasting

Calculate average rate of a component resourceForecast amortized costs month over month based on historical trendsForecast cashflow month over month based on historical trends by serviceGet historical usage and rates to enable cost forecasting

Governance, Policy & Risk

Report subaccounts by region

Invoicing & Chargeback

Understand the billing account or sub account entity

Planning & Estimating

Determine contracted savings by virtual currencyQuantify usage of a component resourceReport effective cost of compute

Rate Optimization

Identify unused commitmentsReport commitment discount purchases

Reporting & Analytics

Analyze capacity reservations on compute costsAnalyze marketplace vendors costsAnalyze resource costs by SKUAnalyze service costs by subaccountAnalyze service costs month over monthAnalyze the different metered costs for a particular SKUCalculate unit economicsDetermine Effective Savings RateDetermine Effective Savings Rate by ServiceReport application cost month over monthReport corrections for a previously invoiced billing periodReport costs by service categoryReport costs by service category and subcategoryReport service costs by providers subaccountReport spending across billing periods for a provider by service category

Unit Economics

Analyze credit memos

Usage Optimization

Analyze cost per compute service for a subaccountAnalyze costs by availability zone for a subaccountAnalyze costs of components of a resource

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