Case Study: Assaí achieves stronger cloud cost governance with IBM Turbonomic and Cloudability

Smarter FinOps for high demand retail operations

Assaí, Brazil’s largest food retailer, needed better visibility and control as it expanded its microservices architecture, added new cloud workloads, and managed multiple cloud accounts across a fast-growing retail operation. To address rising cloud complexity, Assaí worked with IBM, using IBM Turbonomic and IBM Cloudability as part of a phased FinOps journey.

IBM implemented automated cloud optimization and financial governance, helping Assaí right-size resources, improve forecasting, and centralize cost management. The results included about 30% cloud cost reduction, 15–20% fewer manual changes, break-even in under seven months, and a rise in FinOps maturity from zero to level five in less than two years.

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Rodrigo Callisperis

Chief Information Officer