Case Study: Mentor Graphics achieves accurate cloud cost allocation and governance with CloudHealth Technologies

Finding a better way to manage costs through the cloud

Mentor Graphics, a global leader in electronic hardware and software design, was spending hundreds of thousands per year on AWS and needed a better way to analyze and reduce cloud costs. Its Web Services team supports rapid, worldwide deployments that are unique and highly variable, creating a complex, multi-division environment that outgrew the company’s existing cost tool and made project-level cost management difficult.

CloudHealth provided a single platform to align cloud operations with business priorities, using Perspectives for role-based asset grouping, resource-based Cost Allocation, Policies and Notifications, and interactive reporting. The result: accurate identification and allocation of resources, clear month-to-month cost visibility and projections, and actionable insights into cost and ROI at the project level—enabling managers and marketing to track spend trends and decide which projects should continue.

Mentor Graphics

Ron Fuller

Web Manager, Mentor Graphics