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What is cloud cost optimization?

IBM Big Data Hub

You can scale your cloud resources up or down to meet demand, and costs will follow. Cloud optimization helps reduce waste and avoid overspending by identifying unused resources and neglected tools. How will we provision our cloud resources and monitor and control spending over time? What metrics will we track?

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Transforming financial transparency and trust through integrated resource planning

IBM Big Data Hub

Streamline the integrated planning and forecasting process, making it easy for users to access information, track variances in spend and initiatives and enable faculty members to re-forecast and ultimately own their numbers. Budgets had to be manually uploaded, making it challenging to integrate actuals and forecasts.