The FinOps imperative: Close the distance between spend and strategic value

CIOs and technology leaders today face an increasingly complex challenge: managing spiraling cloud costs while navigating fragmented IT estates that span multiple cloud providers, on-premises infrastructure, SaaS applications and heritage systems. Yet the real challenge extends beyond managing costs; it’s about extracting maximum strategic value from every technology investment.

For most organizations, significant value remains untapped. Industry research reveals that an alarming portion of infrastructure costs remain hidden, buried in the complexity of multi-cloud environments, IT sprawl and disconnected financial management tools. This represents billions of dollars that could fuel innovation, drive competitive advantage, or accelerate digital transformation, if organizations had the visibility, understanding and frameworks to act on it.

In a new report we explores how DXC Total FinOps, a strategic evolution beyond traditional IT cost management, offers CIOs a powerful competitive edge. Through in-depth analysis and expert insights from DXC’s leadership, we examine why limiting FinOps to cloud optimization misses the transformative opportunity before us.

You’ll discover how comprehensive visibility across your entire technology landscape, from mainframe to edge computing and fromdata centers to public cloud, enables not just cost efficiency, but strategic decision-making that aligns technology spending with business outcomes. We explore the critical role of human expertise in an era of AI-powered automation, the forecasting capabilities that separate mature FinOps practices from reactive cost-cutting exercises, and the cultural transformation required to break down silos across finance, engineering and business units.

Most importantly, this report demonstrates why DXC Total FinOps is not simply about saving money; it’s about unlocking hidden value, creating a virtuous cycle where optimization funds innovation. 

As you read through this report, we invite you to consider what your organization could achieve if the majority of your infrastructure costs were no longer hidden. The answer may define your competitive advantage in the years ahead.

You’ll discover how comprehensive visibility across your entire technology landscape, from mainframe to edge computing and from data centers to public cloud, enables not just cost efficiency, but strategic decision-making that aligns technology spending with business outcomes. We explore the critical role of human expertise in an era of AI-powered automation, the forecasting capabilities that separate mature FinOps practices from reactive cost-cutting exercises, and the cultural transformation required to break down silos across finance, engineering and business units.

Most importantly, this report demonstrates why DXC Total FinOps is not simply about saving money; it’s about unlocking hidden value, creating a virtuous cycle where optimization funds innovation. 

As you read through this report, we invite you to consider what your organization could achieve if the majority of your infrastructure costs were no longer hidden. The answer may define your competitive advantage in the years ahead.