MSP competitive advantage
Differentiating services for cloud and beyond
The Flexera FinOps platform enables MSPs to deliver differentiated cloud and IT services that help you retain customers and attract new business. With estate-wide visibility, advanced cost optimization, automation and the tooling you need to manage your customers’ environments, MSPs can confidently scale, improve margins and create new revenue through services.
Increase profit margins and long-term customer value
Cloud management and optimization
Make data-driven, ROI-maximizing recommendations
Increase profit margins while helping customers execute and advance their cloud initiatives. Develop automation and optimization strategies that reduce cloud spend, improve resource utilization and efficiency. Proactively identify idle and underutilized resources. Fully automate buying/selling of unused reserved compute and implement automation for cloud infrastructure operations.
Streamline, standardize and automate your cloud business
Operate more efficiently and deliver differentiated services quickly and effectively. Customize and automate billing and invoice processes. Precisely allocate spending to customers and cost centers. Get partner-friendly, white-label reports for customers.
Cloud billing and reporting
IT, software and sustainability audits
Expand services across your customers’ IT estates
Gain visibility and identify optimization opportunities across customer IT estates. Offer IT audits, software audits, sustainability reporting and optimization services. Provide more differentiated value, improve customer retention and customer satisfaction. Win more business while scaling optimization services.
Turn insights into growth
More opportunity across your customers’ technology estates
Most organizations still operate in silos, so they don’t have the full picture of what technology they have, who’s using what and what it’s costing the business. They don’t measure spend and risk consistently across technology categories. With Flexera, MSPs can gain visibility across their customers’ IT estates, discover insights, enrich services offerings and provide new value to customers.
Drive growth at scale
Flexera’s technology is second to none in having the capabilities to bring ITAM, FinOps and SaaS in a single platform to our customers. By embedding Flexera’s solutions into our service delivery, we’re transforming the customer experience. This partnership allows us to scale smarter, deliver faster and provide richer outcomes for our clients.
Shane Cronin, Head—ITAM and FinOps SHI
Frequently asked questions for MSPs
MSPs often struggle to balance cost optimization, governance and scalability across multi-cloud environments. Flexera One helps overcome these challenges with advanced FinOps capabilities that are designed to meet the client management needs of MSPs. It also offers sustainability tracking and white-label billing—giving MSPs a competitive edge.
Evaluate proven solutions built for MSP needs. Flexera One is built for the multiple levels of control MSPs need to manage multiple clients, in a unified experience. With automated policies that apply across the portfolio, onboarding new clients becomes a process that takes hours, not weeks. Even as business grows, MSPs can scale managing cloud environments without needing to add headcount.
Implementation of Cloud Cost Optimization for an MSP customer takes two forms. If they are part of the MSP's primary account, they will simply “show up” and only require a few specific modifications to their account to ensure they are placed in the desired hierarchy. If a separate tenant is needed then the process is not much longer (e.g., a few hours to do bill connection and associated credential requirement configuration while data is flowing).
Start first by reducing complexity. Given that not all clients use the same hyperscaler when they start working with an MSP, MSPs need solutions that automate optimization across hybrid cloud environments and address different workload demands. Flexera One identifies optimization opportunities across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud automatically. This makes it easier to rightsize instances, eliminate waste and ensure commitments to cloud providers are properly used. Flexera One provides workload automation that dynamically balances cloud workloads to ensure cost savings while maintaining SLAs.
Yes. Our hyperscaler partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud provide access to migration and modernization programs that help MSP clients expand their cloud estates—strategically and profitably. Our partnerships also give MSPs direct API access for near real-time cost and usage data. This means more accurate recommendations and faster optimization. Combined with Flexera’s industry-leading commitment automation—built to work seamlessly with Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and Azure reservations—MSPs can secure discounts the way your customers need.
Regulatory mandates and customer expectations make carbon footprint reporting essential. Flexera One’s GreenOps capabilities enable MSPs to deliver sustainability metrics and reporting, differentiating their services.
Transparent reporting, proactive optimization and sustainability insights are key. Flexera One equips MSPs with executive dashboards, cost allocation tools and compliance metrics—positioning them as strategic advisors.
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