Ask YäRKEN Enhancements for Domain and Spend-Related Questions
Ask YäRKEN just got smarter! It now offers improved support for domain-specific and how-to questions, making it easier to get relevant answers tailored to your needs. In addition, the model can now explain changes in spend across parent dimensions.
“What caused the dip in Microsoft spend in 2025 compared to 2023?”
The AI will analyze underlying factors—like cost pools and towers—and provide a clear breakdown of what’s driving the variance. This enhancement gives you deeper insights and more accurate responses when exploring cost trends across your organization.
Quickly Jump to Google Cloud Resources with New Deep Link Support
We’ve introduced a new deep link capability for Google Cloud data, making it easier to investigate specific resources.
Users can now navigate directly from a Google Cloud resource ID shown in the GL popup to the corresponding page in the Google Cloud Console. This saves time and effort by eliminating the need to manually search for the resource—allowing for faster, more focused analysis.
Resource Explorer - A New Dashboard
We’re excited to roll out the new Resource Explorer dashboard, designed to help you monitor daily spend trends for individual cloud resources over the past 45 days.
This dashboard gives you a clear, detailed view of resource-level costs, making it easier to track usage patterns and spot anomalies. You can also drill down into each resource to see key details like the billing account, service category, and service name—helping you better understand your cloud expenses at a granular level.
Flexible Budgeting with Configurable Fields
We’ve enhanced the Budget module to give you greater control and flexibility over how you plan and manage budgets. With the new Form Configuration capability, you can now enable only the fields that matter to your organization.
What this unlocks for you:
- • Budget by Tower and Sub Tower: Align financial planning with your IT infrastructure and operating model.
- • Budget at Cost Pool level: Gain precise visibility over financial allocations across functional areas.
- • Budget by Run, Grow, and Transform (RGT): Strategically allocate spend based on business objectives.
- • Spend Categorization: Track spending by financial classification or procurement view.
- • Custom field support: Add your own business-specific dimensions like region, initiative, or owner.
Each of these fields is fully configurable — you can enable, disable, rename, or set defaults based on your organizational needs. This flexibility enables scenario-based budgeting and better alignment between IT and Finance.