Report spending across billing periods for a service provider by service category
Understanding costs across service providers, billing periods, billing accounts, and service categories (Analytics, Compute, Database, Storage, etc.) provides valuable insight into total costs and can be used by Procurement to focus negotiations for specific service providers with details on the billing accounts that are driving costs to focus negotiations toward highest costing items.
- Source
- FOCUS MCP snapshot
- FOCUS editions
- v1.3, v1.4
- Queries
- 1
- Mode
- Read-only
- Library snapshot (UTC)
- 2026-10-08
Report spending across billing periods for a service provider by service category v1.3
Adapted to v1.0- Source
- FOCUS 1.0 sample
- Result rows
- 49
- Status
- Adapted to v1.0
- Execution
- Precomputed
- Result snapshot (UTC)
- 2026-10-11
Column adaptations (1)
Billed cost by category and billing period
49 rows. Scroll inside the table to see more.
Inspect Postgres SQL and original FOCUS SQL
Postgres SQL, as run
select case when publisher_name is not null and publisher_name is distinct from invoice_issuer_name then publisher_name else provider_name end as service_provider_name,
billing_account_name as billing_account_name,
billing_account_id as billing_account_id,
billing_currency as billing_currency,
billing_period_start as billing_period_start,
service_category as service_category,
service_name as service_name,
sum(billed_cost) as total_billed_cost
from focus.cost_and_usage
where charge_period_start >= $1::timestamptz
and charge_period_end < $2::timestamptz
and case when publisher_name is not null and publisher_name is distinct from invoice_issuer_name then publisher_name else provider_name end = $3::text
group by 1, billing_account_name, billing_account_id, billing_currency, billing_period_start, service_category, service_name
order by total_billed_cost desc nulls last, service_category, service_name
limit 500Original FOCUS SQL
SELECT ServiceProviderName, BillingAccountName, BillingAccountId, BillingCurrency, BillingPeriodStart, ServiceCategory, ServiceName, SUM(BilledCost) AS TotalBilledCost FROM focus_data_table WHERE ChargePeriodStart >= ? and ChargePeriodEnd < ? AND ServiceProviderName = ? GROUP BY ServiceProviderName, BillingAccountName, BillingAccountId, BillingCurrency, BillingPeriodStart, ServiceCategory, ServiceName ORDER BY TotalBilledCost DESC
Columns used
Column names from the source use case.