FOCUS is for everyone who generates or consumes billing data.

Generators

Billing data generators generate FOCUS billing data for their customers or internal stakeholders:

• Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) a.k.a. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors
• Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
• Private cloud vendors
• Internal teams who do chargebacks for data center usage

Get started by downloading your FOCUS billing data from your technology providers.

Consumers

FinOps Practitioners consume FOCUS datasets. These individuals perform FinOps for their organization.

See examples of Practitioner Adoption to learn more about how FOCUS can help you and your organization.

Generator + Consumer

FinOps tool vendors both generate and consume billing data. They provide FinOps tools or FinOps consulting services for other organizations. FinOps vendors consume billing data from technology vendors, and generate billing data for their customers.

Several FinOps vendors are beginning to adopt FOCUS for their platforms. Learn more about what FinOps vendor adoption looks like today.

Resources

Learn about FOCUS

Share these resources with others in your organization to help them understand how FOCUS can help.

• What is FOCUS? (PDF handout)
• Read the Adopting FOCUS paper
• Catch up on the latest release, FOCUS 1.3
• Review FOCUS Columns and Use Cases
• Try the FOCUS Sandbox: View sample FOCUS data and run pre-built SQL queries
• Become a Certified FOCUS Analyst

Get leadership buy-in for FOCUS Adoption

Share these resources with leaders in your organization to help them understand how FOCUS can help

• Why Adopt FOCUS? (PDF handout)
• Adopting FOCUS pitch deck – build your custom pitch to leadership to gain support for adoption.

Visit GitHub

• The FOCUS Project
• Repository
• Working draft of the Specification
• FOCUS Columns
• The Glossary
• Supporting Materials
• Issues in GitHub
• Work items by release