Kohl’s, founded in 1962 by Maxwell Kohl, is a leading omnichannel retailer with over 1,100 stores across 49 states. Offering a wide range of apparel, home goods, and lifestyle products, Kohl’s is committed to using cutting-edge technology to enhance customer experiences and optimize its vast operations. As part of this effort, Kohl’s leverages the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to manage over 7,000 cloud-based projects.

Despite GCP’s powerful infrastructure, the scale and complexity of Kohl’s operations poses challenges in monitoring costs, managing resources, and ensuring overall cloud efficiency. Existing tools are not equipped to handle the high volume and complexity of data, which makes it difficult for Kohl’s to gain real-time insights into their cloud performance.

To address these challenges, our Governance of Expense in Kohl’s Cloud Operations platform provides real-time monitoring and actionable insights into GCP data.

Our platform provides comprehensive visibility into cloud project expenses, showcasing potential cost-saving opportunities for each. Detailed instructions on how to reduce costs are listed in an easy-to-understand way so users can cut costs effortlessly.

Our software also features visual graphs for historical data, tracking trends in resource usage over time, helping stakeholders identify inefficiencies and optimize cloud operations.

Finally, the platform sends automated alerts to key stakeholders through Slack, helping employees make informed decisions in a timely manner on cost management, resource utilization, and security improvements.

Our system is fully dockerized and hosted on GCP powered by Kubernetes. On the back end, data is pulled from Big Query database and processed through a Python Flask server. This is displayed on the front end via a ReactJS web interface.