What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Vertice is that we primarily use it for any spending, to keep track of spending on any cloud infrastructures and any SaaS subscriptions, especially AWS.
A specific example of how we use Vertice to track spending is that we were able to consolidate most of the expenses that were running around because of how Vertice has been put together. The cloud analysis went into deeper purchasing and cloud cost optimization because of this.
How has it helped my organization?
Vertice has positively impacted my organization because automated approval and renewal workflows help engineers collaborate so that they do not have to worry about budgets and similar concerns.
Because of wider adoption across software purchasing expenses, we have been able to save a good amount of cloud cost, which led to small and tactical budget improvements.
What is most valuable?
The best features Vertice offers include cloud cost optimization, SaaS spend visibility, and vendor negotiations, which are the major reasons I would use Vertice.
The vendor negotiations feature is especially helpful when we talk to a lot of vendors, providing valuable comparisons and a cost optimization approach. Whenever we need to make a decision, Vertice helps us with contract negotiation and human benchmarking.
What needs improvement?
Vertice can be improved because it is more of a commercial product, and that is an open source. The one thing is that we cannot host it on our cloud platforms without any recommendations, which requires manual implementations and approval. Vertice does not replace AWS monitoring workflow, workload profiling, and database query optimization, so these are the things I would look forward to.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Vertice for around a year.
What other advice do I have?
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate Vertice a seven or eight.
I gave Vertice a seven or eight because it majorly helps, especially with cloud workflow expenses, but it does not replace AWS monitoring tools and workload profiling.
Vertice does not replace AWS monitoring and workload profiling, and it does not replace database query optimization either. Apart from that, small technological budget improvements and major cloud expenses will be taken care of.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)