What is FinOps?
FinOps (Cloud Financial Operations) is the discipline of bringing financial accountability to variable cloud spend. It ensures that engineering, finance, and business teams collaborate to optimize cloud usage and align spend with business value.
At 12Brighton, we help enterprises embed FinOps practices that go beyond cost cutting — enabling innovation while maintaining financial discipline.
IBM Cloudability is a leading cloud financial management platform. Cloudability enables organizations to:
Gain visibility into cloud spend across services and accounts.
Optimize usage by identifying waste, rightsizing resources, and leveraging reserved instances.
Forecast and budget cloud costs to align with business priorities.
Create accountability by embedding financial awareness into engineering and product teams.
Drive collaboration between finance, engineering, and business stakeholders.
Enable continuous improvement with feedback loops and evolving metrics.
By combining FinOps methodology with IBM Cloudability’s analytics, we help enterprises transform cloud spend into a driver of innovation and measurable business value.
FinOps Start
Our FinOps Foundations service establishes the core practices your organization needs to manage cloud costs effectively. We ensure your teams have the right structures, metrics, and visibility to succeed.
Governance Frameworks → Define roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making processes for accountability.
Performance Metrics → Align KPIs with business goals to measure cost efficiency and value delivery.
Reporting Structures → Build tailored reporting that provides transparency into spend and usage.
Best Practice Adoption → Embed proven FinOps strategies into daily operations.
Cloud Spend Management
We help organizations reduce costs, eliminate waste, and improve accountability through structured optimization.
Cost Efficiency → Identify unused or underutilized resources and recommend savings.
Spend Optimization → Leverage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and other strategies to maximize value.
Financial Accountability → Implement showback/chargeback models to encourage responsible usage.
Continuous Review → Regularly adjust strategies to match evolving business needs.
Automated FinOps
Automation is key to scaling FinOps. Our automation services integrate seamlessly with your environment.
Real‑Time Visibility → Automated monitoring and alerts for anomalies or overspending.
Process Automation → Automate RI management, savings identification, and optimization tasks.
Tool Integration → Ensure automation works with your existing cloud and finance systems.
Custom Solutions → Tailored scripts and workflows for your unique environment.
Managed FinOps
Our FinOps as a Service offering provides ongoing, end‑to‑end support so you can focus on your core business.
Full Management → We handle budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
Ongoing Optimization → Continuous analysis to ensure efficiency and savings.
Expert Advisory → Access to seasoned FinOps consultants for strategic decisions.
FinOps Skills
We build your team’s internal FinOps expertise through training and enablement.
Tailored Training → Sessions designed around your team’s needs, from basics to advanced.
Tool & Process Setup → Guidance on selecting and implementing the right solutions.
Frameworks & Best Practices → Share proven industry approaches to strengthen your practice.
Maturity Assessment
Our maturity assessment benchmarks your current practices against industry standards.
Comprehensive Review → Evaluate tools, processes, and governance.
Benchmarking → Compare against peers and best practices.
Strategic Roadmap → Deliver actionable recommendations to advance your maturity.