> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.openops.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenOps Overview > What is OpenOps, exactly? OpenOps Platform OpenOps is a No-Code FinOps automation platform. It provides customizable **workflows to automate various FinOps processes**, such as cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting, allocation, and tagging. At the same time, OpenOps **enables collaboration** of FinOps teams with stakeholders like engineers, DevOps, finance and leadership. It is designed to reduce operational overhead while adapting to complex organizational tooling, business processes, and policies. OpenOps **integrates** with public cloud providers, third-party FinOps visibility tools, and a wide range of other tools such as collaboration and ticketing services, telemetry systems, and databases. It also offers **AI assistance** powered by the LLMs you trust to help you build workflows and automate tasks. OpenOps is available both as a paid managed service and as a free distribution that you can [deploy on premises](/getting-started/system-requirements). ## Why OpenOps? OpenOps addresses typical **challenges for FinOps practitioners**: 1. Visibility in cloud environments isn't enough. Automation is necessary to ensure end-to-end action and adherence to organizational policies. 2. Automating with internal tools is often inefficient and unsustainable. 3. Automating with off-the-shelf tools lacks flexibility. While traditional FinOps **visibility tools** are great at surfacing optimization opportunities, they: * Don't facilitate collaboration between stakeholders in the engineering organization. * Don't help decide if a flagged resource is actually wasteful or is in fact mission-critical. * Don't allow implementing opportunities with confidence. As a result, visibility tools tend to generate false positives and introduce noise. FinOps practitioners find themselves struggling to engage engineers, often facing organizational resistance. Existing off-the-shelf **automation tools** are way more sustainable and scalable than custom-built automations, but they often lack flexibility when it comes to tailoring automations to the needs of a specific organization. **OpenOps aims to hit the sweet spot** by being an integrated tool that: * Consolidates optimization opportunities from native and third-party FinOps visibility tools. * Knows and suggests ways to apply optimizations. * Enables easily customizing pre-made optimizations and authoring your own. * Keeps humans in the loop when deciding which optimizations should be applied. [Learn more about features and benefits of OpenOps](/introduction/features-and-benefits).