Public Cloud
In the Public Cloud Scope, FinOps brings financial transparency, collaboration, and accountability to cloud spending, ensuring that companies can innovate while keeping their cloud costs under control and aligned with business goals. Most organizations will start with FinOps for public cloud as their initial Scope.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
In the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Scope, the challenges of managing public cloud spending are mirrored in the proliferation of SaaS resources across organizations via decentralized, individual-level procurement and corporate-credit-card-funded purchase orders, resulting in limited organizational visibility into cost and usage. Pricing models vary from license-based SaaS, to variable-spend models such as per user/device, tiered, consumption-based, flat rate, and feature add-ons. By iteratively applying Framework Capabilities, financial transparency and accountability can be established for SaaS spending alongside public cloud spending.
Data Center
In the Data Center Scope, FinOps teams develop a strategy for on-premises infrastructure by moving from traditional capacity planning with an upfront purchase model toward a consumption-based usage and cost model. Working with Core and Allied Personas, the FinOps Practitioner’s ways of working shift the organizational culture from the traditional finance, procurement, and technology siloes to a collaborative, data-driven environment that facilitates planning, cost analytics and optimization. By leveraging Framework Capabilities, teams managing on-premises infrastructure can move beyond a hardware-centric focus. Teams are enabled to enhance migration strategies, optimize workload placement, and ultimately improve data center Unit Economics.