Managing multi-cloud billing data efficiently is critical for organizations striving to balance cost optimization, transparency, and sustainability.
Currently, many organizations struggle to consolidate could billing data from different providers in a single unified solution. Have different ingestion scenarios, siloed data architectures, and various data formats and granularities when combining cloud billing data from various hyperscalers.
This results in organizations financing solutions by providers that are expensive, and difficult to understand in-house, resulting in a dependency and lack of flexibility.
The challenge is that besides costs, adapting and changing to the needs or custom business logic such as a tagging logic in Azure becomes tricky, when the need arises to customize your solution.´
So what is FinOps FOCUS™?
FOCUS™ is a framework designed to standardize the format and schema that cloud providers use to deliver the billing data. The idea is to unify the cloud billing data estates so that organizations find themselves with the ability to combine various cloud provider billing data without much transformation efforts as seen before. The framework enhances the way we can combine and work with multi-cloud billing data, building on unified business logic and standard formatting.
See FOCUS Specification v1.1 for more details.
In our past client projects, we have replaced legacy cloud billing systems with a modern, scalable, and fully automated FinOps solution built on Microsoft Fabric. By implementing the newly released FOCUS™ data framework, the solutions unified multi-cloud billing data with a great potential for annual savings.
We designed and delivered a code-first, client-owned solution that meets diverse stakeholder needs—from C-level reporting to end-user analytics—while ensuring long-term maintainability.
Adopting the FOCUS™ framework enhances cost monitoring, provides actionable insights, and facilitates seamless integration into business processes.
Whether you’re an organization starting your FinOps journey or refining your practices, our solution offers practical insights, challenges, and strategies for success.
A Fabric FinOps FOCUS™ framework can offer a modern, fully automated, and sustainable FinOps cloud billing solution for any IT department. This solution replaces legacy systems with a code-first, client-owned platform built on Microsoft Fabric.
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