What it is (plain English)
Visibility and accountability for cloud spend within the asset-management context — ingesting cloud billing, attributing cost to teams and services, and surfacing waste. Overlaps with the broader Cloud Governance suite but framed as an asset/cost discipline.
Problems it solves
- Cloud costs that finance can't attribute or forecast.
- No chargeback/showback of cloud spend to the teams incurring it.
- Optimization opportunities invisible without unified cost data.
What must exist first
Platform Core Setup and CMDB Foundation; access to cloud billing data.
What the customer needs to provide
- Cloud billing exports/API access across your providers.
- Cost-allocation model (how spend maps to teams, projects, services).
- Budget owners and reporting cadence.
Where it can go next
Pairs with Cloud Governance for policy enforcement and optimization, and with cloud Discovery for a resource-to-cost picture.