Case Study – Beginning the Azure FinOps Journey

In this chapter, we will review the healthcare company’s case study. There is a total of three case studies in this book. Each case study reflects on reinforcing the learning from the previous section. This first case study will focus on Peopledrift Healthcare’s journey to build FinOps teams and achieve the goals of the Inform phase.

Peopledrift Healthcare came from a very traditional data center mindset until the pandemic hit and the business needed to transform entirely. They started using cloud services to meet customer demands for scheduling appointments and procuring and transporting vaccines. Obviously, this growth was not without pain. It became harder and harder to estimate the current and future spending and Finance was not able to accurately forecast expenditure. To overcome all these challenges, the business implemented FinOps practice and started to improve bit by bit.

In this case study, we will...