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Remizen + Microsoft Azure Integration

Help finance and IT teams view Azure charges alongside other departmental spending.

This describes a possible workflow, not an active or official connection.

Connect Remizen with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is used for cloud infrastructure and IT operations. Place cloud infrastructure spending in a wider finance context. Any connection would need to be designed, validated, and made available before teams could use it.

Expense management with Microsoft Azure

For organizations that use Microsoft Azure, a potential workflow could focus on reviewing cloud subscriptions and usage-related costs against owners or projects. The right approach depends on the records available, your internal policies, and how your team reviews spending today.

How it works

  • Scope a proposed Microsoft Azure use case with the people who review spending: Review cloud costs in a broader spend picture.
  • Plan how to consider service charges against department budgets using the relevant billing accounts, resource tags, cost allocation, and access to usage data, and decide who would own each handoff.
  • Before implementation, validate the proposed process to distinguish infrastructure costs from employee expenses against your approval policies.

Workflows

  • Review cloud costs in a broader spend picture
  • Consider service charges against department budgets
  • Distinguish infrastructure costs from employee expenses

Data and workflow considerations

  • Review billing accounts, resource tags, cost allocation, and access to usage data before defining a Microsoft Azure workflow.
  • Determine whether Microsoft Azure data needed for reviewing cloud subscriptions and usage-related costs against owners or projects may be shared, and how long it should be retained.
  • Test exceptions and manual review paths before relying on any proposed connection.