The Many Features of Good Tag Management

Before you choose any new software, resource, or tool to add to your business, you should assess what you want to get out of it and what it can provide to you.

As you continue your cloud journey, you will face new opportunities to make your usage more optimized and cost-effective. One of those opportunities might be to implement a tag management system in your organization. However, before you agree to anything, let’s talk about some good features to look for.?

Full Multi-Cloud Support

A good tag management system should be available on every cloud platform that you use. Many businesses will likely use Azure, AWS, and GCP as part of their multi-cloud strategy. While this can benefit your business, you don’t want your optimization tools to miss crucial areas. A proper tag management system should be able to manage tags across multiple cloud platforms to give you a detailed analysis of everything you need to be successful.?

A Fast Engine and Customizable Dashboard

You will want a system that can produce the reports you are looking for quickly and easily. A responsive, fast engine that allows you to filter through options is essential. And so is a dashboard that comes pre-loaded with meaningful reports and the capability to customize it to your needs. Getting answers fast will let you make decisive decisions quicker.?

Real-Time Cloud Provider Sync

To continue making those quick decisions, you want a management system that is synced with your cloud providers. Anything that happens in your native AWS or Azure environments should be reflected in real-time in your tag management system. This will help accountants or other decision-makers in your FinOps and cloud teams get reports faster and more efficiently.?

Access to Tag Intelligence

Tag intelligence can be critical when it comes to deciding what to optimize and how best to do so. You will want to find a tag management system that offers tag intelligence when you connect your Azure or AWS providers. This will report actionable tag health and compliance insights into your native cloud environments.?

The Option of Batch Processing

Batch processing allows you to change your tags no matter how many you might be dealing with or how complex they are. Finding this capability in your tag manager can help you streamline your tagging efforts by making deep and broad changes at any point in time.?

Find All of This In Our Tag Manager

This all sounds great, but it can become challenging when you look for a tag manager that includes these features along with everything else you might be searching for. Thankfully, the tag manager brought to you by FinOps Oversight contains these features and many others to allow your business to optimize and control tags rather than them controlling you.?

If you have further questions or are curious about our tag manager, send me a message or reach out to the team at FinOps Oversight.?

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