Hands-on lab 3 – Current billing file

What is in the current billing file? How can it be compared to the current market? Today, analyzing a cloud billing file is very difficult. Billing files are very detailed. They usually have many different services, with different locations, different billing methods, different terms, quantities, and very cryptic ways of identifying exactly what product or service is being referenced. Today, many try to download spreadsheets and CSV files to analyze them line by line. This is very time-consuming and prone to error. Most automated tools do not have the ability to compare and drive insight across the entire market. Many efforts take days and weeks to normalize and compare billing data. Cloud solutions have ...

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