Summary:
The Azure Consumption Dashboard provides a centralized view of Microsoft Azure consumption data, allowing users to monitor customer usage, subscription details, margins, and Reserved Instance (RI) information in one place. Users can quickly drill into Azure plans, review resource-level consumption, and gain greater visibility into customer cloud usage trends.
Table of Contents:
How does the Azure Consumption Dashboard simplify Azure consumption management across multiple customers and subscriptions?
How does the Azure Consumption Dashboard improve the way users manage and review Azure consumption across multiple customers and subscriptions?
For Resellers : What are the new functionalities that recently went live and are now available?
For End Customers : What are the new functionalities that are coming out for November?
With the recent functionalities, what does this mean for the business case of Ingram Micro?
Question 1: How does the Azure Consumption Dashboard simplify Azure consumption management across multiple customers and subscriptions?
Answer:
Managing Azure consumption across multiple customers and subscriptions can be time-consuming and often requires navigating multiple reports. The Azure Consumption Dashboard consolidates critical consumption information into a single experience, helping associates and customers:
• Quickly understand Azure usage and associated subscriptions.
• Identify Reserved Instance opportunities and optimization insights.
• Improve visibility into customer billing and consumption patterns.
• Spend less time gathering data and more time supporting customer needs.
• Make more informed cloud management decisions.
Question 2: How does the Azure Consumption Dashboard improve the way users manage and review Azure consumption across multiple customers and subscriptions?
Answer:
Use the Azure Consumption Dashboard as your primary tool for reviewing customer Azure consumption and subscription information. Leverage the insights provided to have more informed conversations with customers about their cloud usage, billing, and optimization opportunities.
Before: Azure consumption information was spread across multiple reports, requiring users to manually review customer, subscription, and resource details. Identifying consumption trends and optimization opportunities often took additional time and effort.
After: Azure consumption information is now available in a single dashboard, allowing users to quickly view customer usage, subscription details, and optimization insights. Built-in filters and notifications make it easier to find information and support customer conversations.
Question 3: For Resellers - What are the new functionalities that recently went live and are now available?
Answer:
RI visibility + expiry alerts resellers can see which of their customers' reservations are burning down, expiring, or already expired. Directly protects against the PAYG cliff (which, per the marketing PDF's own logic, is the whole point of RIs).
AOBO notifications resellers know when they've been granted or lost delegated admin access, closing a governance gap that today gets discovered only when something breaks.
Zero margin toggle-> To filter for those end customers that have turned their AOBO off – leads to loss of margin in the channel.
Download + cost visualization resellers stop maintaining parallel spreadsheets and Power BI dashboards. That's the "spend less time gathering data" line from the one-pager, made real
Question 4: For End Customers - What are the new functionalities that are coming out for November?
Answer:
First time end customers get direct visibility into their Azure consumption inside Ingram's platform. Today they either go to the Azure portal (fragmented) or wait for their reseller to send them a report (delayed, inconsistent). This closes that gap.
RI expiry alerts at the end-customer level the party who actually owns the workload gets the warning, not just the reseller. That's the difference between "somebody knew" and "the right person acted.
Question 5: With the recent functionalities, what does this mean for the business case of Ingram Micro?
Answer:
Reseller stickiness fewer resellers churning to third-party FinOps tools (Flexera, Cloud Checker, DoIT) because the core visibility they'd pay for is now native.
Fraud detection adjacency cost visibility and anomaly patterns are the same data pipeline. Every capability shipped here reduces incremental cost of the fraud alerting work.