--- title: Report: FinOps priorities are shifting left and expanding description: The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report, based on 1,100+ practitioners, reveals that financial operations are shifting left—embedding cost context... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/report-finops-priorities-are-shifting-left-and-expanding-7xcs7wpp5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Report: FinOps priorities are shifting left and expanding | daily.dev og:description: The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report, based on 1,100+ practitioners, reveals that financial operations are shifting left—embedding cost context... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/report-finops-priorities-are-shifting-left-and-expanding-7xcs7wpp5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7XcS7wPp5.png og:image:alt: Report: FinOps priorities are shifting left and expanding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Report: FinOps priorities are shifting left and expanding **[SD Times](https://daily.dev/sources/sdtimes)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report, based on 1,100+ practitioners, reveals that financial operations are shifting left—embedding cost context earlier in the engineering lifecycle before deployment rather than after billing. FinOps scope is expanding beyond cloud optimization into AI spend management (now tracked by 98% of respondents vs. 31% two years ago), SaaS, licensing, private cloud, and data center costs. The Foundation has updated its mission to reflect this broader mandate, from cloud-focused to technology value management. Teams are increasingly collaborating with platform engineering, IT Financial Management, and IT Asset Management. The FOCUS open specification is gaining traction, with all major clouds now natively generating FOCUS data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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