Gain insight into your costs per customer, product, users, and more. Make understanding your COGS as easy as ever.

Calculating Business Unit Economics and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) can be complex and time-consuming. The act of simply sourcing the data required related to those costs is already a challenge, let alone importing custom metrics.

With Business Unit Economics, nOps’ robust Cost Allocation aids perfectly in your journey to achieving your exact Cost per X. With Cost Allocation, we have alleviated the need for re-tagging workflows, especially when considering multi-cloud and SaaS costs — and the ability to ingest custom metrics means you get the exact answer you need, in real time, without delay.

nOps Cost Allocation and Business Unit Economics are calculated instantly. No need to wait 24-48 hours for your rules to update.

What's New

We’re excited to unveil Business Unit Economics, a powerful addition to our professional suite of cost allocation tooling. Bring your custom metrics, multiple cloud providers, and an ever-growing list of SaaS products into one dashboard.

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Smart Cost Allocation & Key Business Metrics

With Business Unit Economics, you can define custom units, such as Customers, Products, and Users, and Showback Values for each business unit, cost center, or product. Track costs on a monthly basis with full historical data, and easily import or export data into CSVs.

Use cases include:

  • Costs per customer per product
  • Costs per user per business unit
  • Costs per event per application

The result is total accountability for the true cost of your application, product, and/or environment.

Smart Cost Allocation & Key Business Metrics

Get instant clarity into your total spending, cost per unit, and cost per user — all in one unified view. 

Business Unit Economics now allows you to visualize your historical and future spend per unit, so you can see how costs evolve across products, customers, and business units. Uncover spending trends, optimization opportunities, and the true financial performance of each business area — with instant visibility into which cost centers are driving efficiency and how performance shifts over time.

Historical Spend Overview: See total monthly spend stacked by cost center with cost-per-user trendlines to see progress at a glance
Business Unit Economics History: View cost evolution per unit type to understand cost performance trends across time
Monthly Spend by Cost Center: Analyze detailed spending distribution and month-over-month changes for each business unit
Business Unit Economics Table: Review granular cost-per-unit data, totals, and showbacks

How to Get Started

To start using Business Unit Economics:

  1. Ensure you have Showbacks created within nOps’ Cost Allocation.
  2. Navigate to Cost Allocation in nOps’ Inform Section or head directly there. Click Business Unit Economics.
  3. Click Add Business Unit to create your first business unit based on a selected Showback.
  4. Configure your settings and start tracking costs.

If you're already on nOps...

Inform and Operate customers can access this new feature directly from the nOps Dashboard. Have questions? Want more details? Check out the documentation here or reach out to your Customer Success Manager.

If you’re new to nOps…

nOps was recently ranked #1 with five stars in G2’s cloud cost management category, and we optimize $2+ billion in cloud spend for our customers.

Join our customers using nOps to understand your cloud costs and leverage automation with complete confidence by booking a demo with one of our AWS experts.