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Forecast IT spend with confidence
Technology environments continue to grow more complex, spanning cloud, SaaS, on-prem infrastructure, labor, and contracts. Yet many organizations still rely on manual, spreadsheet-driven processes to forecast these costs, often treating cloud and IT planning as separate exercises.
Intelligent Forecasting introduces an AI-powered approach to forecasting technology spend across IBM Apptio and IBM Cloudability. Powered by IBM watsonx, it analyzes historical spend patterns, evaluates multiple forecasting models, and automatically selects the best-fit approach for each line item.
Intelligent Forecasting in action
- One intelligent, multi-modal forecasting engine across cloud and IT
- Outlier and historical anomaly detection
- Transparent, explainable forecasts with full user control
A smarter forecasting engine built for real-world spend
- Automated model selection
- Outlier detection
- Explainable and adaptive forecasts
- Evaluate multiple statistical and machine learning models in parallel and automatically select the best-fit approach.
- Compare alternative models, review accuracy metrics, and override selected model.
- Apply consistent forecasting logic across IT and cloud spend.
- Automatically detects anomalies in historical data and surfaces them for review.
- Users can adjust anomalies before generating forecasts, ensuring models are trained on cleaner, more representative data.
- Get more reliable forecasts that reflect underlying spend behavior rather than isolated events
- Confidence scores, model details, and interactive visualizations help teams understand assumptions and forecast drivers over time
- Forecasts are fully editable, allowing users to accept, adjust, or override values while combining machine learning insights with business judgment
Built for IT Finance, FinOps, and Business Leaders
CIOs & IT leadership
Deliver more confident in IT spend forecasts, improved planning agility, and clearer visibility into what is driving future IT budget needs.
IT Finance
Improve accuracy of IT budgets and forecasts, and ensure projections are explainable and defensible.
IT planners and budget owners
Get consistent forecasts across portfolios, programs, and cost centers that adapt as spending patterns and investment priorities evolve.
Business unit stakeholders
Understand future costs expectations and support funding discussions around IT investment decisions.
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