FOCUSTM is a technical specification to build and maintain an open standard for cloud cost, usage, and billing data.
Businesses increasingly need a single view of spend associated with delivering applications and services in the cloud. FOCUS outlines a consistent structure for the presentation of cloud cost data, which will enable companies to expedite cloud adoption. The consistent presentation increases trust in the data and the ability to map costs back to their business.
By making billing data easier to understand and more consistently reportable between multiple vendors, FOCUS will remove complexity and overhead from processes such as allocation, chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, and the other FinOps capabilities to maximize business value in the cloud.
The FOCUS specification’s schema definition and FinOps aligned terminology provide a clear guideline for producing FinOps-serviceable billing datasets. Datasets conforming to FOCUS enable FinOps practitioners to perform common FinOps capabilities, like the ones mentioned above, using a generic set of instructions, regardless of the origin of the dataset.
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