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YäRKEN Newsletter July 2025

Written by Yarken Team | Jul 7, 2025 8:36:20 AM

FinOps X Recap

At this conference, one thing was clear: managing cloud costs isn’t enough anymore. The FinOps community is shifting from tracking costs to connecting technology investments to business outcomes. Combining FinOps with Technology Business Management (TBM) is key to this evolution, helping teams go beyond bills to measure value.

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TBM 5.0 & FOCUS 1.2 Updates

The TBM Council has released TBM Taxonomy 5.0, a major revision for the modern enterprise. Key enhancements include AI and cloud-native integration, discrete modeling for SaaS/PaaS, and improved sustainability (ESG) tracking.

TBM 5.0 Highlights:

  • AI Integration: Explicit modeling for GPU training and inference workloads.
  • Labor Attribution: Mapping developer and security labor directly to value streams.
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FOCUS 1.2 has been ratified, extending the open schema to include SaaS, PaaS, and multi-currency support, eliminating hidden spend across providers.

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YäRKEN New Features

This month, we’ve made it easier to analyze your cloud data in more detail, added smooth support for GCP billing files, and improved our AI to give you clearer, more accurate answers.

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