Use this article to understand how Yarken connects AI, insights, analytics, FinOps, planning, and optimization workflows across the platform.
Overview
AI, Insights, and Optimization brings together the Yarken capabilities that help teams understand change, investigate cost and usage signals, guide financial decisions, and act on optimization opportunities.
This page family covers Ask Yarken, AI settings, Insights, Recommendations, Analytics, FinOps and Cloud, Planning, Cost Transparency, and Business Cases.
Use these pages when you want to move from understanding what changed to deciding what to do next.
What this section covers
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Ask Yarken for natural-language technology finance analysis.
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AI settings for Ask Yarken, Copilots, Playbooks, and Knowledge Base.
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Insights for unusual spend and usage patterns.
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Savings Recommendations for optimization tracking.
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Analytics for deeper spend, variance, and performance investigation.
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FinOps and Cloud workflows for cloud cost visibility and action.
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Planning workflows for budgets, forecasts, workforce, and investments.
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Cost Transparency and TBM structures for allocation, ownership, and showback.
Featured pages
Ask Yarken
Use Ask Yarken to ask questions about spend, variance, forecast performance, cloud costs, contracts, vendors, applications, and financial drivers in natural language.
Ask Yarken uses governed Yarken data and applies user permissions.
Manage Ask Yarken settings, Copilots, and Knowledge Base
Use this page to configure the current AI settings that support Ask Yarken, including availability, organization context, search lookup, Knowledge Base, Copilots, and Playbooks.
Yarken Insights Overview
Use Insights to detect unusual spend or usage behavior, investigate what changed, and manage the response lifecycle.
Savings Recommendations
Use Recommendations to capture, prioritize, and track potential and realized savings opportunities.
Analytics Overview
Use Analytics to move from high-level dashboards into deeper financial and operational analysis.
How to use this page family
Start with the page that matches your goal.
Use Ask Yarken when you want a direct answer or analysis.
Use Manage Ask Yarken settings, Copilots, and Knowledge Base when you need to configure current AI behavior.
Use Insights when you need proactive monitoring.
Use Analytics when you want deeper investigation.
Use Recommendations when you want to track optimization work.
Use the planning, TBM, cloud, and business case pages when you need to connect analysis to ownership, budgets, forecasts, and investment decisions.
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