As you face the challenges of integrating Oracle Cloud into your cost management system, you'll find that the traditional approach often requires the development of custom adapters, adding unnecessary time and expense to your projects. To streamline your experience, we're introducing a significant enhancement to our Cost and Asset Management (CAM) system: the Oracle Cloud Integration as a supported adapter for asset extraction.

This integration is designed to make your life easier by reducing the cost and time associated with onboarding Oracle Cloud services. You'll benefit from improved data ingestion and normalization, leading to a more comprehensive understanding of IT spending across various cloud providers and business operations. Additionally, this update focuses on Oracle Cloud Asset Metric Extraction and the incorporation of Oracle Cloud Provider Generated Recommendations, providing you with a more efficient and user-centric solution for managing cloud costs.

Oracle Cloud Integration into CAM is a significant advancement meticulously tailored to simplify and enhance cost and asset data extraction. This dual-focused approach provides a dynamic and efficient method for managing cloud expenditures and assets, specifically addressing the needs of Kyndryl Cost & Asset Management (CAM) application users.

Through this integration, you can automate the extraction of cost and usage data from Oracle Cloud, offering accurate, up-to-date insights into your cloud spending. This automation streamlines your asset management processes and allows you to access detailed reports and dashboards. These tools provide a clearer view of your Oracle Cloud investments and usage patterns, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of IT spending across various cloud providers and enhancing your decision-making capabilities in a multi-cloud environment.

Moreover, this integration bolsters your asset management capabilities by providing detailed data on Oracle Cloud assets. This enhancement makes your journey in cost optimization more intuitive and effective, shifting your focus from manual data collection to more strategic activities. This is particularly advantageous when managing multiple cloud providers, as it offers a unified view of cloud spending, aiding in comparative analysis and informed decision-making.

To use this feature, you need to:

Active usage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.
Proper IAM policy settings in Oracle Cloud
For Generated recommendation: Allow group OptimizerAdmins to manage optimizer-api-family in tenancy. Visit Cloud Advisory Overview for more details.
Have appropriate user permissions in CAM.

The initial onboarding to extract Cost & Asset data and Generated recommendations from Oracle Cloud Integration is completed in Foundation. For more detailed information, please see Oracle Cloud Cost extraction.

You can customize your CAM Cost dashboard to focus on Oracle Cloud Integration. This targeted approach not only simplifies the process but also provides you with a detailed and relevant analysis tailored to your Oracle Cloud utilization; follow these simple navigation steps within the CAM application:

After applying these filters, your dashboard will be updated to display information specifically of Oracle Cloud Integration, enabling a focused and detailed analysis of your Oracle Cloud costs and assets.

We have specifically designed the integration of Oracle Cloud into your Cost & Asset Management (CAM) system to simplify the process of extracting cost data. This enhancement allows a more dynamic and efficient approach to managing your cloud expenditures. You can now access detailed reports and dashboards that provide in-depth insights into your Oracle Cloud spending patterns. This feature facilitates a comprehensive understanding of IT spending across various cloud providers and enhances your ability to make informed decisions in a multi-cloud environment.

Key Features of Your Oracle Cloud Asset extraction:

To fully leverage these benefits, follow these simple navigation steps within the CAM application:

Login to Your
CAM
Application
Navigate to the
Assets
dashboard
Applying Oracle Cloud Integration (OCI) Filter:
Click on the
Filter
button.
From the available options, select
OCI
(Oracle Cloud Integration).
Click on
Apply filter
to update your dashboard.

These steps ensure that your dashboard reflects detailed Oracle Cloud Asset Extraction information, enhancing your understanding and management of cloud costs and assets.

The recent integration enhancement includes support for Oracle Cloud Asset Tag Extraction, a feature that significantly improves the granularity and precision of your asset management. With this integration, you can effortlessly view and utilize tags on Oracle Cloud costs and assets.

Seeing and applying these tags in various filters empowers you to manage and allocate costs more effectively. Furthermore, the integration enables you to create detailed segment charts and dynamic resource groups based on these specific tags. This capability is essential for you if your goal is to manage resources and allocate costs with increased accuracy and efficiency.

The Oracle Cloud Asset Tag Extraction feature provides a new level of control and insight into your asset management. It allows you to tailor your management strategies to the unique demands of your organization, using the tags to segment, categorize, and analyze your cloud assets and expenditures. This tailored approach enhances your understanding of asset utilization and streamlines the process of cost allocation and resource management.

To fully harness these benefits, follow these simple navigation steps within the CAM application:

Login to Your
CAM
Application
Navigate to the
Provider tags
section
Applying Oracle Cloud Integration (OCI) Filter:
Click on the
Filter
button.
From the available options, select
OCI
(Oracle Cloud Integration).
Click on
Apply filter
to update your dashboard.

These steps ensure that your provider tags reflect detailed information of Oracle Cloud Asset Extraction, enhancing your understanding and management of cloud costs and assets.

As a Kyndryl Cost and Asset Management (CAM) application user, you can directly integrate Oracle Cloud Integration-generated recommendations into your asset management workflow. This feature automates the extraction of cost-related recommendations, providing you with actionable insights directly within the Insights dashboard of the CAM application.

In the CAM Insights Dashboard, you can view Oracle Cloud Integration-generated recommendations, which offer practical suggestions for cost savings and efficiency improvements. The Recommendation History Overview panel provides a summary, including new recommendations and a count of opportunities realized or unrealized, along with the savings achieved. Moreover, detailed trend graphs visually represent your estimated savings over time.

The integration focuses on Oracle Cloud Advisor’s cost-saving recommendations, allowing you to access automated insights for better financial management of your cloud resources. This data will be presented in an easily digestible format within the Insights dashboard, which is dedicated to cost recommendations.

This integration facilitates informed decision-making by giving you a clear view of potential cost optimizations. For example, you could use these recommendations to downsize resources, terminate idle assets, or make strategic changes that align with your financial goals.

How to Use It:

Navigate to the
Insights
dashboard in the Kyndryl CAM application.
Look for the
Recommendation history overview
and the various segment charts that display trends and savings.
Scroll to the
Recommendation line items
table within the dashboard. Here, you will find a list of recommendations categorized by cloud assets. Each entry details the
Category
,
Provider
,
Age of recommendation
,
Recommendation
Status
,
Type
,
Reason
,
Source
and
Estimated savings
.
Select any recommendation to open the
Recommendation item details
page, which provides granular data about the selected recommendation.
Here, you can explore the
Details
,
Properties
,
Metrics
,
Tags
, and
Associated Costs
tabs. These sections provide comprehensive information about the recommendation, including its metrics and associated costs.
To view detailed asset information, click on the
View asset
button. This action directs you to the
Asset details
page, showcasing a chart of the asset's cost over time. Use the dropdown menu to filter the chart for
Cost Over Time
,
Anomalies Over Time
, and
Utilization Over Time
.
Further, explore the asset's context within your cloud infrastructure through the
Properties
,
Metrics
,
Tags
,
Anomalies
, and
Associated Costs
tabs. These tabs contain valuable data that supports informed decision-making for cost-effective cloud resource management.