Welcome to the October 2025 edition of our monthly FinOps feature roundup. Each month, we share the latest Ternary innovations designed to improve cloud cost transparency, boost efficiency, and strengthen collaboration across teams.
In September, we introduced hierarchical budgets, new forecasting filters, and updates to MSP Customer Management. This month, the October 2025 FinOps roundup highlights several new releases designed to give teams more flexibility and control. We’ve added support for municipal fiscal year patterns, self-serve certificate management, and an enhancement to MSP Bill Splitting.
As a bonus, check out our latest Ternary in 90 Seconds or Less video showcasing how to analyze Snowflake spend using the Ternary Reporting Engine.
Read on to see how our latest enhancements enable customers to maximize the value of their cloud investments and help partners scale their FinOps services.
Support for municipal fiscal year patterns
Public sector organizations have unique financial rhythms. Their fiscal years often begin mid-year, follow municipal reporting cycles, or align with academic calendars. To help these teams better connect financial plans to cloud spending, we’re introducing support for municipal fiscal year patterns in Ternary.
Since launching fiscal calendar reporting in 2022, we’ve seen how valuable it is for FinOps practitioners to align cloud insights with business calendars. With this release, we’re expanding fiscal calendar options so our SLED customers can manage and report on cloud costs in a way that matches their organization’s actual financial practices.
You can now configure fiscal calendars using:
- 5-4-4, 4-5-4, and 4-4-5 patterns
- Standard month pattern (new!)—where fiscal months align directly to standard calendar months
Here’s what that means in practice:
- Fixed start date. Choose exactly when your fiscal year begins (for example, July 1 each year).
- Calendar-aligned months. Fiscal months now follow real-world month lengths—28 to 31 days.
- Standard weekly grouping. Weeks run Sunday through Saturday, making it easier to track and compare costs.
For public sector teams, that means no more adjusting reports or manually reconciling data. Ternary now adapts to your fiscal model so you can focus on insights instead of spreadsheets.
This enhancement gives you greater accuracy and consistency in your financial reporting, better alignment between cloud costs and budget cycles, and a clearer view of how every department is tracking against its goals. With Ternary, you can make confident decisions knowing your cloud data reflects your organization’s actual fiscal reality.
Learn more in our documentation article.
Self-serve (PEM) certificate management
Staying on top of certificate renewals can be tedious and time-sensitive, especially when it involves coordinating with support teams or waiting for manual updates. With our latest release, Ternary now makes certificate management faster and easier with self-serve client certificate regeneration.
As an admin, you can now view certificate details, including expiry dates, directly from the Ternary Admin page. As expiration approaches, clear warnings help you stay ahead of renewals. To renew and refresh any connected data integrations, just click the status button when it’s time to update. No tickets or downtime required.
This enhancement gives admins more control over security and reliability. By managing certificates directly within Ternary, you can renew on your schedule, minimize the risk of disruption, and keep integrations secure and uninterrupted. This enhancement is an example of how Ternary is dedicated to making our platform management tools more flexible, self-sufficient, and designed for operational confidence.
Learn more in our documentation article.
MSP Bill Splitting: Dimension-based account selection
Ternary MSP Bill Splitting, which was first launched in December 2024, enables partners to handle and divide client billing data in a self-service workflow.
For managed service providers (MSPs) with integrated billing, customers are often linked to specific projects, accounts, or subscriptions under an MSP parent tenant. Splitting these integrations and assigning billing to each customer is crucial for effectively tracking cloud usage and costs.
Our latest enhancement introduces dimension-based account selection, giving you more flexibility when configuring which subaccounts are assigned to each customer. During the integration setup, you can now select subaccounts using hierarchy dimensions, such as:
- Sub Account ID or Name (Subscription, Project, Linked Account)
- Billing Parent Groups, including Azure Invoice Sections or GCP Folders and Ancestry Paths
Additionally, this feature now supports automatic inclusion of new subaccounts. When a higher-level billing parent group is selected, any new subaccounts created under that parent are immediately assigned to the appropriate customer. This keeps billing configurations accurate, reduces manual updates, and adapts automatically as customer environments evolve.
Ternary simplifies multi-tenant cloud billing management for MSPs and ensures reliable billing data as your customer base grows.
Learn more in our documentation article.
New video: Ternary Snowflake reporting in 90 seconds or less
Our Ternary in 90 Seconds or Less video series continues with a new episode designed to help you get more out of your FinOps practice.
In this quick demo, Dan Greer, Account Executive at Ternary, walks through how to analyze Snowflake spend using the Ternary Reporting Engine. You’ll learn how to:
- Attribute Snowflake usage to specific teams, users, or business units.
- Build a custom report and add it to a dashboard for continuous visibility into cloud costs.
The Ternary team is here to support your FinOps journey. Thanks for reading our October 2025 FinOps roundup. Stay tuned for next month’s updates!
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