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IBM 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.
IBM has been recognized as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools.
“IBM provides the most complete full-stack CCMO solution,” according to the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization Solutions, Q3 2024.
Control your future spend now
With intelligent multi-model forecasting powered by watsonx, 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 hierarchical budgets powering automated forecasts that you can tailor to your plans. Account for variables and net new spend via collaborative planning to provide accurate cloud spend forecasts for your organization.
Seamlessly surface cloud budgets, plans, and forecasts in IBM Apptio Planning for a comprehensive, aligned planning experience across your infrastructure.
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.
Improve forecast accuracy
Take advantage of our industry leading intelligent forecasting engine with multi-model 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 while surfacing the drivers causing variance.
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.
