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FinOpsly is an AI-native control plane for managing Cloud, Data, and AI spend at enterprise scale. Built for organizations operating across multiple clouds and data platforms, FinOpsly shifts FinOps from passive reporting to active, governed execution. The platform connects cost, usage, and business context into a unified operating model—allowing teams to anticipate spend, enforce guardrails, and take automated action with confidence. FinOpsly brings together infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), and AI workloads into a single decision and execution layer. With explainable AI agents operating under policy-based controls, teams can safely automate optimization, trace cost drivers to real workloads, and stop budget drift before it becomes a problem. Key capabilities include: Business-aware cost attribution across products, teams, and services Predictive insight into cost drivers with clear, explainable reasoning Policy-controlled automation to optimize spend without disrupting performance Early detection and prevention of overruns, inefficiencies, and financial drift FinOpsly enables engineering, finance, and platform teams to operate from the same source of truth—turning cloud and data spend into a controllable, measurable part of the business.

CloudZero helps businesses optimize cloud spend with full visibility into costs—so they can reduce wasteful spending and improve their unit economics. Unlike other solutions, we take an engineering-led approach to cost optimization, helping teams understand what drives 100% of their operational cloud spend, empowering them to reduce risk, minimize waste, and maximize profit.

Gain full visibility and control over your IT assets, software licenses, usage, and spend with Setyl. Setyl is a cloud-based IT asset and license management (ITAM) platform that connects to your existing systems with 100+ out-of-the-box integrations. Use Setyl to manage all your hardware assets, software applications, SaaS subscriptions, licenses, vendors, admins, users, and spend in one place — helping you: 1. Manage both hardware and software assets in one place. 2. Automate and scale daily IT operations, including inventory management and employee onboarding and offboarding processes. 3. Identify and cut wasted IT spend. 4. Prepare for your security audit and stay compliant, including with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. With its intuitive interface and low learning curve, the Setyl platform offers a user-friendly experience and facilitates collaboration across your organization. Features include: • IT asset and license inventory • Asset lifecycle management • SaaS subscription, software application, and license management • Software renewal tracking • License rightsizing • Employee onboarding and offboarding workflows • ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance • Vendor management • IT spend management and reporting • 100+ native integrations (Microsoft, Google, MDM, RMM, IAM, HR, helpdesk tools, and more) • API access • Fully guided support

Around 25 million engineers work across dozens of distinct functions. Engineers are using New Relic as every company is becoming a software company to gather real-time insight and trending data on the performance of their software. This allows them to be more resilient and provide exceptional customer experiences. New Relic is the only platform that offers an all-in one solution. New Relic offers customers a secure cloud for all metrics and events, powerful full-stack analytics tools, and simple, transparent pricing based on usage. New Relic also has curated the largest open source ecosystem in the industry, making it simple for engineers to get started using observability.

Josys is an AI-native identity security and governance platform built for the age of enterprise AI. As AI adoption accelerates, identity has become the fastest-growing attack surface and the hardest to govern. Josys discovers, governs, and secures every identity in the enterprise, human, machine, and AI agent, across every application. Its policy-led model lets security and IT teams set access policies once and enforce them autonomously: risk gets surfaced, access gets controlled, and identity threats get remediated in real time, with no manual oversight required. Over 1,000 organizations and MSPs worldwide trust Josys to turn identity from a liability into an autonomously governed advantage. Learn more at josys.com.

c/side: The Client-Side Platform for Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Privacy Monitoring third-party scripts effectively eliminates uncertainty, ensuring that you are always aware of what is being delivered to your users' browsers, while also enhancing script performance by up to 30%. The unchecked presence of these scripts in users' browsers can lead to significant issues when things go awry, resulting in adverse publicity, potential legal actions, and claims for damages stemming from security breaches. Compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1, particularly sections 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, requires that organizations handling cardholder data implement tamper-detection measures by March 31, 2025, to help prevent attacks by notifying stakeholders of unauthorized modifications to HTTP headers and payment information. c/side stands out as the sole fully autonomous detection solution dedicated to evaluating third-party scripts, moving beyond reliance on merely threat feed intelligence or easily bypassed detections. By leveraging historical data and artificial intelligence, c/side meticulously analyzes the payloads and behaviors of scripts, ensuring a proactive stance against emerging threats. Our continuous monitoring of numerous sites allows us to stay ahead of new attack vectors, as we process all scripts to refine and enhance our detection capabilities. This comprehensive approach not only safeguards your digital environment but also instills greater confidence in the security of third-party integrations.

ESET Protect Advanced offers a comprehensive cybersecurity solution for businesses of any size. It offers advanced endpoint security against ransomware and zero-day threats. It also includes full disk encryption to ensure legal compliance and data security. The solution uses adaptive scanning, cloud sandboxing and behavioral analysis for proactive cloud-based threats defense. Mobile threat protection secures Android and iOS with anti-malware and anti-theft. It also offers cloud app security, mail server protection, vulnerability and patch management, and cloud app protection. Multi-factor authentication and extended detection and reaction (XDR) improve threat detection and response. The solution provides a single pane of glass remote management to provide visibility into threats and users. It also offers advanced reporting and customized notifications.

Polonious is an ISO27001 investigation management workflow solution designed around 3 key principles: 1 - Security 2 - Process centric 3 - Configuration and flexibility What this means is that Polonious allows you to build workflows to manage your investigations in a way that manages your data and your evidence in a highly secure, ISO27001 certified way; allows you to comply with any regulatory requirements with minimal headache and effort by building workflows which are inherently compliant, and; does so without the need for expensive and time consuming code changes - it's even possible for users to do it themselves via the GUI. With Polonious, you can run detailed reports on case outcomes, timeframes, and finances, and break that down across case types, investigators, and even down to investigation status. So you can prove your value up the chain, but you can also identify any problem areas and improve your efficiency.

Mid-market companies use Fraxion to bring procurement, accounts payable, expense management, and spend analysis into a single solution, instead of managing multiple tools. The platform handles the full cycle: requisition to purchase order automation, budgets and policies are enforced in real time, approvals move through multiple levels as needed, and buying happens through PunchOut or internal catalogs. AI powers AP automation and spend analysis, and a mobile app keeps processes moving when staff are away from a desk. The Office of the CFO gains complete visibility and control. Every dollar can be traced back through the full requisition-to-payment cycle. Companies can start with procurement or AP, based on their immediate need, and scale to full procure-to-pay at their own pace, without replatforming. Security and compatibility are built in: Fraxion holds SOC 2 compliance and integrates with cloud, legacy, and niche systems, including Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Xero. Mid-market businesses in healthcare, life sciences, agriculture, wineries, property management, non-profits, education, and natural resources have relied on it for over two decades.

JAMS is an automation orchestration and job scheduling solution that runs, monitors, and manages critical IT processes from a single console. JAMS automates jobs across Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i, z/OS, and OpenVMS, with native integrations for the databases, BI tools, and ERP systems already running your business. Jobs run on any schedule or trigger off other events, with dependency management keeping workflows in order and an audit trail logging every execution. JAMS includes two AI capabilities at no additional cost. JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client: ask it a question in plain language, and it finds a job, troubleshoots a failure, or looks up how to do something, grounded in JAMS documentation. It acts only when asked, and every change waits for your approval. JAMS MCP brings JAMS into the AI coding tools teams already use, including Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Desktop. For teams managing thousands of jobs across SQL Server, ADF, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, this cuts tribal knowledge and middle-of-the-night troubleshooting. Knowledge that once lived in one person's head becomes something any team member can ask about directly. The AI lives in the product, not in the support queue. Support is staffed by humans JAMS will never outsource, based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. New tickets go to long-tenured engineers, and every JAMS customer has the CEO's cell phone number. JAMS' mission is to reduce the operational burden of critical automation, so teams spend more time on the work automation was meant to free them for.