November 2023 Summit: FOCUS v1.0-preview, Microsoft Ignite Recap, and Data Ingestion Best Practices

We’re proud to announce FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS)’s v1.0-preview. Maintainers and contributors join us to share upcoming best practices and ways to implement FOCUS into their workflow. We also take a moment to review all the FinOps-related news from Microsoft Ignite, including a look at their Fabric product.

Kerrin Santalesa and Marian Rizvi of Ernst and Young share insights on billing data & ingestion, and Tim O’Brien of Walmart talks about open-source billing specifications impact on multi-cloud enterprises. We also hear from our Sustainability Special Interest Group and Data Workflow Working Group.

00:00 Highlights
01:06 Introduction
05:34 Microsoft Ignite Recap
12:39 Solving for Billing & Data Ingestion Challenges, EY
22:56 Open Source Billing Specification Impact on Multi-Cloud Enterprises, Walmart
30:47 Introducing FOCUS v1.0-preview, Use Cases, and More
47:24 Working Group Updates
48:02 Defining the Sustainability Persona
55:31 Why FinOps Data Hygiene, Ingestion, and Workflows are Important

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