ITAM vs FinOps: Why the silo is a liability
Your asset data and your cloud bill are telling different stories, and that's costing you
Most organizations discover the problem in a similar way: a finance leader extracts a cloud cost report, flags a spike in software licensing fees, and sends it to the IT Asset Management team. The ITAM team opens their CMDB or SAM tool and finds… nothing that matches. Different categories, different vendors listed, different time periods. Two teams, two systems, two versions of reality. And somewhere in the gap, there’s a six-figure problem that neither team had the authority or visibility to detect alone.
