FOCUS™

The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification is an open specification that normalizes technology billing data with common columns, definitions, and requirements. It lets practitioners analyze conforming datasets with generic instructions regardless of their source.

FOCUS is maintained as a Joint Development Foundation project under the FinOps Foundation.

In Meridian, FOCUS maps to a normalized billing source that enters the canonical ledger pipeline.

Related terms

• Agent spend attribution
• Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
• Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
• System of record for AI labor
• Agent FinOps
• AI labor
• Spend under management
• Attribution readiness
• Cost per outcome
• AI spend assessment
• Unattributed spend
• Agent inventory
• Chargeback in an AI context
• Zero-Access assessment
• BilledCost
• EffectiveCost
• ChargeCategory
• ChargePeriod
• ServiceCategory
• Provider, Publisher, ServiceProvider, and HostProvider
• Contract Commitment dataset
• Invoice Detail dataset
• Virtual currency and token columns
• Journal entry
• Suspense account
• Accrual
• Chargeback vs. showback
• Subledger
• Tie-out and reconciliation
• Trial balance
• Dimensions and worktags
• OASA specification
• The Missing Ledger