RightScale launched its enterprise cloud cost management tool Optima to general availability on Tuesday, allowing departments across an enterprise to coordinate cloud resources and spending.

RightScale Optima provides the company’s analysis, reporting and forecasting capabilities along with automated actions and collaborative optimization.

Optima currently supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Softlayer, and private clouds.

“The RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals found that optimizing cloud costs is the top initiative among all cloud users,” RightScale CEO Michael Crandell said in a statement. “Despite an increased focus on cloud cost management, only a minority of companies are taking critical actions to optimize cloud costs, such as shutting down unused workloads or selecting lower-cost clouds or regions. We believe RightScale Optima is a major step forward for large enterprises looking to manage cloud spend.”

RightScale said Optima is designed to reduce inaccurate recommendations, helping enterprises forecast, track, and develop overrun alerts for cloud application costs. Usage and cost data from all cloud providers are shown in a unified dashboard, and costs can be viewed as a cloud account, team, or application. The dashboard also enables chargeback and showback, and tags to allocate costs to enterprise departments or business units.

“Along with our Cloud Gateway network capability, Telstra’s Cloud Management Platform powered by RightScale has already transformed how our customers govern and orchestrate their hybrid cloud deployments,” said Telstra Director, Global Platforms, Jim Fagan. “Through RightScale Optima, our customers now have the ability to monitor and manage their cloud usage and costs in a deeper and more predictive way. Any resulting cost savings can be re-invested into much-needed activities that promote innovation and transformation for their business.”

Enterprise cloud management is a promising growth business, as demonstrated by CloudHealth Technologies’ $46 million funding round announced in June.

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