(Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Ryusuke Kaneki; hereinafter referred to as "UPWARD"), today announced that "Cloud FinOps 2nd Edition - Collaborative, Real-time Cloud Value Decision Making", which was translated by Akihiro Kadohata, CTO of UPWARD, was published on March 19, 2012 by O'Reilly Japan Inc. The book was published by O'Reilly Japan Inc. on March 19, 2010.
This book is a Japanese translation of a comprehensive guide written by the founder of the FinOps Foundation*2, an affiliate of the Linux Foundation*1 and a central player in promoting FinOps.
*1 The Linux Foundation is the world's foremost organization (headquartered in the United States) that supports the development of OSS by providing support to Linux and other OSS development communities and developers. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
*2 The FinOps Foundation is a project of the Linux Foundation to support cloud financial management practitioners through best practices, education, and standards, in partnership with organizations such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. organizations with a community of more than 23,000 participants from more than 10,000 companies.
A cross between the words "Finance" and "DevOps," FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that helps organizations gain maximum business value by bringing together engineering, finance, technical, and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.
With many organizations actively leveraging the cloud in recent years, there has been a growing interest in FinOps as a framework to drive optimization of both cloud costs and business outcomes.
This book introduces the FinOps Foundation framework and its lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate) and practices for comprehensive cloud cost optimization.
UPWARD utilizes cloud infrastructure from three major vendors (Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP) to facilitate rapid and efficient development, and has built cost management dashboards for individual cloud services for FinOps implementation and daily monitoring. In addition to visualizing cloud costs by product, we are also In addition to visualizing cloud costs for each product, we are promoting cloud optimization by calculating product costs through cost allocation of shared costs, evaluating ROI, and making decisions on cloud infrastructure enhancements.
UPWARD continues to implement FinOps for its three main cloud services. UPWARD will continue to implement FinOps for the three major cloud services and rapidly deliver products in the area of sales engagement services.
Title ：Cloud FinOps, 2nd Edition - Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making
Authors ：J.R. Storment, Mike Fuller
Translators ：Toshi Matsuzawa, Yuushi Kazama, Shungo Arai, Haruka Fukuda, Akihiro Kadohata, Makoto Obara
Publisher ：O'Reilly Japan Corporation
Sales : Ohmsha Corporation
Price ： ¥4,950 each for print and e-book versions (tax included)
Text ： 488 pages
Issue Date ： March 19, 2025
Product Information ： https://www.oreilly.co.jp/books/9784814401086/ (O'Reilly Japan)
UPWARD IS A SALES ENGAGEMENT SERVICE THAT UTILIZES ADVANCED LOCATION-BASED TECHNOLOGY TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT AND RECORD SALES ACTIVITY DATA IN CRM TO OPTIMIZE THE SALES ACTIVITIES OF SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN THE FIELD. BY AUTOMATICALLY OVERLAYING ACCUMULATED SALES ACTIVITY DATA AND CRM DATA ON A MAP AND AUTOMATICALLY NOTIFYING OPTIMAL APPROACH DESTINATIONS, UPWARD SUPPORTS THE FORMULATION OF STRATEGIC SALES PLANS UTILIZING CRM DATA.
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