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.

Traditional forecasting methods can’t keep up in today’s hybrid, fast-paced tech environments. Intelligent Forecasting uses multi-model analysis powered by IBM watsonx to automatically generate forecasts and detect anomalies, enabling you to spend less time wrestling with data and more time making informed decisions.

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.

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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.

Complete ownership and visibility

Gain complete ownership and visibility across all cloud and AI spend through a single pane of glass, 100% cost allocation, and personalized views that give every team a clear understanding of what they own.

Confidence to scale and invest

Scale cloud and AI investments with confidence, guided by unit economics, accurate forecasting, and proactive budget and anomaly alerts that surface risk early and enable innovation without losing financial control.

Unmatched cost efficiency

Make every cloud dollar work harder with automation, insights, and proactive governance that continuously reduce waste, improve commitment effectiveness, and sustain cost efficiency as environments evolve.

Integrations

Cloudability works well with others! Robust integrations enable inputs from other data sources for a full picture of your cloud costs.

Additional Resources

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How to Mature Your FinOps Capabilities

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FinOps: A New Approach to Cloud Financial Management

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FinOps Meets GenAI: Optimizing the Cost of Intelligence