Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor are free tools made available by Microsoft. Both tools have limited functionality and intelligence.

The recommendations in Azure Advisor especially, often strongly vary in quality. All recommendations have to be evaluated manually and many should be ignored immediatelty.

Argus offers broader functionality and the models we use are more advanced and more thoroughly trained the achieve better results.

Every recommendations in Argus has a so called confidence score. We show the data that forms the basis for our recommendation very open and transparently. We will also highlight if human expertise is needed to make the best decision.

Argus saves you a lot of time analyzing data and prevents you spending a lot of time on false positives in Azure Advisor.

Many legacy solutions require heavy and time consuming implementations. It are Enterprise solutions with Enterprise pricing and significant project costs.

That doesn't necessarily mean these solutions aren't good, but at Hippo we're convinced that starting with FinOps should be simpler. It should also be accessible for SM's and corporates, so they can achieve the benefits from FinOps: realising cost reductions and accelerating growth and innovation.

Argus offers extensive functionality to optimize cost and to strengthen your cloud estate, without getting lost.

Yes, of course. Our FinOps leads have years of Cloud experience and are trained to align internal stakeholders. All consultants are FinOps Certified Practioner.

If there is a case where additional expertise is needed, our FinOps leads may request support from our Data, Software and DevOps engineers.

For sure. It's great that you already have this expertise! We are looking forward to support you to achieve even better results.

And, if you would have any questions at a certain point, know that you can always contact us.

Argus is offered as an 'managed app' in your cloud environment or in your IT partner's tenant. Setup is fairly easy and quick. Good to know: our app only requires reader rights, we cannot change anything in your tenant and all of your data stays safe within your own environment (or your IT partners').

No, Argus is typically setup within your own environment or within the environment of an IT partner of your choice. Our app requires only reader rights, we do not transfer data to any Hippo/Argus environment or any third party.

Argus currently integrates with Microsoft Cloud (Azure & Microsoft 365). Argus was developed with the FOCUS specification in mind, so we can easily integrate with more cloud providers at a later stage.

Although Argus focusses on Microsoft Cloud, our FinOps consultants can also analyse cost and usage details from our cloud providers, SaaS vendors or on-premises environments.

Yes, Argus is developed with the FOCUS 1.4 specification in mind (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification).