Measuring the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for classic SaaS is well known: compute, storage, third‑party services and support. Agentic SaaS adds a new axis: cognition. Every plan, reflection step, ...

Until now, IT departments have relied on IT financial management (ITFM) and technology business management (TBM) to manage IT costs. However, there has been a significant shift in IT delivery to the ...

Cloud technology, which forms a considerable and ever-growing part of global IT efforts, plays a pivotal role in shaping an organization’s cost-reduction opportunities, efficiency initiatives, and ...

Cloud-related cost overruns could divert resources away from where they’re really needed. FinOps keeps cloud spending in check. Higher education IT departments have been taking advantage of the cloud ...

Imagine boosting developer productivity by 30% while slashing project costs by 25%. That might sound impossible, yet it’s a realistic goal for organizations that adopt FinOps (Financial Operations) – ...

Despite years of cloud maturity, nearly all companies still experience public cloud cost overruns that negatively impact budgets. In fact, 84% of respondents to Flexera’s 2025 State of the Cloud ...

What is FinOps and where did this term come from? The FinOps Foundation defines FinOps as the “shorthand for cloud financial operations or cloud financial management or cloud cost management”. It ...

Cloud is cheaper, but expensive. Cloud computing has always been positioned as a route for businesses to grasp greater flexibility over their IT services expenditure across compute, analytics, storage ...

Having established its bona fides as a key methodology for cost control and workload optimization of public cloud services, FinOps is expanding into optimizing outcomes for private cloud, SaaS, ...

Let’s take a realistic look at the effectiveness of finops. Great potential is often wasted because the finance team isn’t working with the engineers. As cloud spending continues to climb, the ...