Empower Teams with Collaborative and Accurate Cloud Forecasting

In the era of decentralized and self-service cloud consumption, traditional top-down forecasting falls short. YäRKEN Cloud Forecasting transforms cost planning into a dynamic and team-driven process ensuring forecasts are informed by those with the deepest domain knowledge: your DevOps, engineering, and product teams.

YäRKEN’s platform fosters true cross-functional collaboration, enabling finance and IT leaders to work alongside technical teams in a centralized forecasting workflow. Now, the main question…. How our team-based forecasting drives unmatched cost accuracy and alignment:

Assign Costs to Drive Ownership
Accurately allocate cloud expenses down to individual teams, products, or cost centers. This assignment creates clear accountability, ensuring those closest to the work take responsibility for their spend —> a proven driver of cost-conscious behaviour.

Empower Agile Forecast Updates
Technical teams can proactively adjust forecasts as they plan new workloads or changes. Forecast updates are accompanied by comments and tracked in an audit trail, enabling real-time visibility into the reasons behind spending adjustments.

Reduce Forecast Variance with Domain Knowledge
Your DevOps and product teams understand their roadmap better than anyone. By engaging them directly, YäRKEN dramatically reduces the gap between forecasted and actual costs, minimizing surprises and supporting accurate budget planning.

Facilitate Collaboration Across Functions
Bring finance, engineering, and business teams together on one platform. Shared forecasts, alerts, and dashboards keep everyone aligned as costs evolve, eliminating communication silos that often lead to budget overruns.

Incentivize Continuous Improvement
YäRKEN’s leaderboard tracks forecast accuracy across teams, promoting friendly competition and a culture of continuous refinement. Insights into forecast variance over time guide teams in honing their forecasting skills and achieving more predictable outcomes.

Align Forecasts to Business Objectives
Beyond predicting spend, YäRKEN ties forecasts to usage, outcomes, and KPIs, so teams plan in a way that aligns technical decisions with business goals —> maximizing cloud ROI.

Why Team-Based Cloud Forecasting with YäRKEN?

• Built-in Collaboration: Streamline communication and updates with a single source of truth.
• FOCUS & TBM Aligned: Standardize data across clouds for apples-to-apples forecasting.
• Real-Time Visibility: Instantly see forecast changes, comments, and their impact on your budget.
• Gamified Accountability: Inspire teams to improve forecasting accuracy with transparency and recognition.

By putting forecasts in the hands of those closest to the technology, YäRKEN Cloud Forecasting helps you anticipate costs, align resources, and make smarter, faster decisions …….all while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

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