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Essential Forecasting Tools For Finance Teams: 2025 Edition

In financial forecasting, looking at the past helps predict what’s possible in the future. You can plan ahead, take informed action, and avoid losing your market advantage. The finance department and other teams examine the relationships between variables to come up with more realistic financial plans. Financial forecasting can be daunting, with a vast amount of financial data to analyze, multiple teams to consult, and a range of forecasting techniques to choose from.

Your Guide To Datadog Cost Optimization: 7 Tips For Reducing Spend

As cloud systems become increasingly sophisticated, you want a cloud monitoring platform that helps you identify, isolate, and fix root-cause issues. Meanwhile, engineering leaders are under increasing pressure to reduce technology costs as the global economic outlook remains uncertain. With Datadog, you can observe, monitor, analyze, and report on the health of your infrastructure, applications, and services in any cloud and at scale.

Reflecting on 2024: A year of growth and innovation for CloudSpend

CloudSpend Wrapped 2024 As the holiday spirit fills the air, it’s time to look back at a truly transformative year for ManageEngine CloudSpend. With a suite of groundbreaking features, 2024 saw CloudSpend evolve into a powerful tool for managing multi-cloud costs effectively. Let’s revisit the key milestones and share some exciting glimpses of what lies ahead.

Finout Pricing Breakdown: A Comprehensive Look At 2025 Costs

According to a recent PwC report, adopting FinOps best practices could reduce budget planning efforts by 40% by 2026. With 84% of companies struggling to manage cloud spending, FinOps is gaining traction. It helps organizations take control of cloud costs, improve financial efficiency, and drive smarter spending decisions. Finout is a FinOps platform that claims to reduce cloud costs by 30% over a year and a 50% time savings for engineers. If that is true, the next question is, how much does Finout cost?

This Month in Datadog: Monitor OpenAI costs, Kubernetes Active Remediation, IaC Security, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we put the Spotlight on Datadog Cloud Cost Management for OpenAI.

SaaS Cost Optimization 101: Must-See Benefits And Key Strategies To Apply Immediately

SaaS spend waste is a lot like a garden overrun with weeds. Just as weeds consume nutrients and water meant for flowers and vegetables, the waste drains financial resources that could have spurred growth and innovation. But that doesn’t have to be the case. In this post, we share key SaaS spend management best practices we’ve picked up over the years.

How to Control Observability Costs with Grafana Cloud | Demo | Adaptive Telemetry | Loki | Profiling

In this video, Grafana Labs demonstrates how Grafana Cloud addresses the challenges of rising observability costs faced by organizations worldwide. As observability costs grow and logging architectures become increasingly resource-intensive, teams are forced to make difficult decisions about coverage, often leaving critical blind spots. Grafana Cloud offers a cost-effective, end-to-end observability solution that eliminates the need for compromise on efficiency or performance.

Harness Pricing: How Much Does Harness.io Cost?

Harness.io wants to be your one-stop shop for all things cloud management. To do so, the platform offers tools for automating complex processes, ensuring compliance and security, and improving cloud visibility. This holistic approach can accelerate software delivery and optimize operational costs in multi-cloud environments. But at what cost? You’ve probably heard that the Harness.io pricing model is confusing and opaque. And now Harness has restructured its pricing.

CloudFront Pricing: How To Manage And Optimize Your CDN Costs

The CDN market is projected to grow from $27.59 billion in 2024 to $127.13 billion by 2033. The surge in online content consumption, e-commerce expansion, and cloud adoption are some of the leading factors behind this growth. Amazon CloudFront is one of the leading CDN services that offers users efficient and rapid content delivery. However, its costs can be complex due to data transfer fees, request charges, region-specific pricing, and more.

Amazon VPC Pricing: Cost Factors And Savings Strategies

Cloud computing is like the modern, virtual frontier where organizations can scale their operations with just a click. But, building your cloud infrastructure is not just about choosing servers and storage. It’s also about establishing a secure, efficient network to ensure your applications run smoothly and your data is protected. Think of your cloud network as a cloud city.