Use this article to understand how Yarken connects cloud spend, FinOps analysis, and TBM reporting in one financial model.
What is FinOps and Cloud in Yarken?
FinOps and Cloud in Yarken helps teams understand, allocate, analyze, and manage cloud spend as part of the broader technology finance model.
Cloud costs are not treated as a separate reporting problem. They flow into the same structure used for TBM, planning, analytics, and chargeback, giving teams a connected view of cloud spend across providers, services, applications, consumers, entities, and time.
Yarken supports cloud spend analysis across major providers including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with support for FOCUS format and TBM-aligned cloud taxonomy.
What you can do
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Track cloud spend across providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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Analyze cloud billed costs by service, service category, and provider.
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View cloud spend as part of total IT spend.
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Map cloud costs into TBM structures such as cost pools, towers, applications, services, and consumers.
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Analyze cloud spend by entity, reporting currency, and time period.
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Publish cloud spend into the Spend model for reporting and analysis.
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Use dashboards and analytics to investigate cloud trends, variance, and cost drivers.
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Support FinOps conversations with data that connects usage, spend, ownership, and accountability.
How teams use it
Teams use FinOps and Cloud in Yarken to move cloud analysis beyond provider-level reporting.
They can start with high-level cloud spend, then drill into provider, service, application, cost pool, tower, or consumer views. This helps Finance, IT, and FinOps teams understand where cloud cost is coming from, who is consuming it, and how it contributes to overall technology spend.
Cloud analysis can also be used alongside budget, forecast, and actuals to support variance review, cost optimization discussions, and planning decisions.
When cloud spend is mapped into the TBM model, it becomes easier to connect cloud consumption to business services, applications, and consumers instead of leaving it isolated inside provider billing data.
Cloud in the TBM model
Yarken aligns cloud spend to the TBM model so cloud costs can be analyzed and governed consistently.
Cloud Services is treated as a cost pool, with cloud providers represented through the cloud service provider structure. Cloud spend can then be analyzed through towers, sub towers, applications, services, consumers, and other reporting dimensions.
With TBM v5.0.1 alignment, cloud spend publishing follows the updated taxonomy structure, including updated cost pools, sub cost pools, towers, and sub towers.
This gives teams a more consistent way to connect FinOps detail with enterprise technology finance reporting.
Cloud analytics and reporting
Yarken provides cloud visibility across Home, dashboards, reports, Analytics, Cost Explorer, and Custom Dashboards.
Users can review cloud vendor spend, cloud as a percentage of total IT spend, cloud application spend, cloud service spend, and cloud consumption trends.
Analytics and dashboards can also support multi-currency and entity-aware reporting, helping global teams analyze cloud spend using the structures and currencies that matter to them.
What makes it different
Many cloud tools show provider billing data.
Yarken connects that data to the broader financial model.
That means cloud spend can be understood not only by provider or service, but also by cost pool, tower, application, business unit, consumer, entity, and financial period.
This creates a better bridge between FinOps and TBM. FinOps teams can analyze cloud usage and cost patterns, while Finance and IT leaders can see how cloud spend affects budgets, forecasts, services, and business accountability.
When to use FinOps and Cloud
Use FinOps and Cloud when you need to understand cloud spend across providers, services, applications, or consumers.
Use it when cloud spend needs to be connected to budgets, forecasts, TBM structures, or chargeback.
Use it when Finance, IT, and FinOps teams need one shared view of cloud cost and ownership.
For detailed step by step instructions on cloud spend ingestion, mapping, publishing, dashboards, analytics, and reporting, refer to the relevant user guides.
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