Key Takeaways from the State of FinOps 2025

Companies in general are at a low maturity level in FinOps. This is my key takeaway from today’s State of FinOps 2025.

“Workload optimization and waste reduction” as being, by far, on first place to FinOps Practitioners is a demonstration of two things: Either we are still experiencing what I would call the “low hanging fruit season” or companies are somehow resistant to admit that cloud is a different game from the previous CAPEX world.

Another demonstration of low maturity is that Unit Economics shows the embarrassing 9th place. It is not a criticism to FinOps Practitioners. Don’t take me wrong. I know FinOps Practitioners know very well the importance of Unit Economics on the pursuit of Business Value. My guess is that Senior Leaders are still too connected to cost savings – because it is similar to the previous game – then thinking on the value of the cloud investments. As I aways say:

It is time to shift from Cost Savings to Business Value. The first matters, but our goal is the latter.

If you are interested on how to connect your cloud investment to business value and take the most out of each dollar invested at scale, feel free to get in touch.

So what do you think about the 2025 FinOps Practitioner’s priorities? Any other insight?

Original post in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anderson-c-oliveira_finops-finopsevm-cloud-activity-7298491751047045120-Tcdw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAA2BUE0BgiU_v3mnDfaA73qhlnF11KLhhYM