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Brad Payne discusses how his team at PointClickCare integrated FinOps with business strategy to address cloud cost challenges.

Episode 46 Brad Payne: Integrating FinOps and Business Strategy Brad Payne, who leads the FinOps team at PointClickCare, shares how his team tackled cloud cost challenges not by jumping straight into optimization — but by focusing first on allocation and unit economics. That shift helped them uncover how cloud costs connected to specific products, customers, and revenue — sparking deeper collaboration with finance, pricing and packaging, and product teams. This resulted in FinOps moving beyond infrastructure to influence real business decisions. FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI Brad Payne | LinkedIn

People in this episode

Guest: Brad Payne

Topics covered

• FinOps
• business strategy
• cloud cost management
• collaboration
• unit economics

Keywords

• FinOps
• cloud costs
• allocation
• unit economics
• business decisions
• collaboration
• finance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PointClickCare, FinOps Foundation

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