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IBM ApptioIBM Cloudability Feature
Cloud Financial Planning
Forecast and optimize your future cloud costs
Break free from spreadsheet-based forecasting
As cloud service usage grows, so does the struggle to accurately forecast and budget for cloud costs.
Relying solely on past trends when forecasting oversimplifies the process and doesn’t account for planned new spend or changing business activity. Cross-functional collaboration efforts often depend on spreadsheet-based, manual processes that are error-prone and inaccurate. IBM Cloudability Financial Planning helps you break free from the spreadsheet and accurately forecast future cloud spend.
Accurate, defensible forecasts
Cloudability Financial Planning helps you create actionable, defensible plans for future cloud deployments so you can improve forecast accuracy while driving accountability.
Driver-based forecasting
Stop relying solely on past data and disjointed processes that create linear cost outlooks.
Share and collaborate
Reduce variance, accelerate planning cycles, and easily replan when needed with collaborative planning features.
Modernize your forecasts
Go beyond the spreadsheet with robust tooling that enables teams to stay flexible while keeping them accountable.
Control your future spend now
With accurate forecasting, you can optimize cloud costs and limit your tech spend waste – now and in the future. Cloudability Financial Planning helps you to reduce variance with automated forecasts that account for variables and enable flexible, collaborative planning.
Improve forecast accuracy
Generate responsive, defensible forecasts that account for seasonal spend drivers, evolving business priorities, and other cost drivers.
Streamline planning processes
Improve planning agility and budget confidence. Simplify planning collaboration and adapt quickly to changes in priorities or funding as they happen.
Enable team accountability
Go beyond cost allocation by tracking spend to plan at the team level. Control costs with scenario analysis while staying aligned and accountable through collaborative tracking.
Cloudability features
With IBM Cloudability, FinOps teams from finance to engineering to product and organizational leadership can all work together to maximize the value of their cloud spend. Cloudability’s robust features address fundamental FinOps domains and capabilities.
Understand cloud usage and cost
Work together to gather all the required information to perform FinOps including cloud cost, cloud usage, observability, utilization, sustainability, and other data.
Quantify business value
Connect usage and cost data to business benefits and map cloud costs to budgets. Leverage historical data and plans to forecast while aligning with KPIs and benchmarking against peers.
Optimize cloud usage and cost
Focus on cloud efficiency by ensuring that only resources that provide benefit to the organization are used and are consumed at the lowest possible cost.
