What is Recommendation?
The Recommendations feature allows you to manually create recommendations for various asset types within the application. It provides an interface for creating recommendations for cost optimization related to the assets. This offers a comprehensive understanding of the projected cost as well as the actual savings realized over time. You can specify the monthly potential and realized cost savings amounts for the individual assets. The recommendations include the option to incorporate cost-optimization suggestions from various sources, such as manual, AWS, and Azure.
Once you create the recommendation, you can analyze your realized and potential savings from the Recommendation Overview dashboard available under Reports > Cost Transparency. The Recommendation dashboard provides a breakdown of recommendations by month, asset type, and source. You can also track your potential and realized savings amounts via the tiles provided on the asset and cloud-related dashboards.
Key Benefits:
The recommendations enables you to:
-
Create the personalized recommendations by identifying the cost-saving opportunities across all asset types.
-
Add a recommendation for your cloud-based resources, or include the cost optimization suggestions for your cloud environment.
-
View potential and realized savings value on the asset and cloud related dashboards.
-
Monitor the progress of the recommendations by specifying the statuses such as in new, progress, completed, or dismissed.
-
Assign the complexity levels (high, low, or medium) to the recommendation.
-
Make informed decisions based on insights derived from the potential and realized savings associated with each recommendation.
How to use Recommendations?
You can either use the template file from Admin > Data Templates or manually add the entries from Recommendations screen. The following table lists the mapping fields available in the recommendations:
|
Field Name |
Description |
Mandatory |
|
Recommendation ID |
Unique identifier for the recommendation. |
Yes |
|
Source |
The source from which the recommendation is taken. |
Yes |
|
Asset Type |
Asset type for which recommendation is being created. |
Yes |
|
Asset Code |
Asset Code of the asset for which the recommendation is created. |
Yes |
|
Category |
Category of recommendation (e.g. Cloud Optimization). |
Yes |
|
Details |
Detail description about the recommendation. |
Yes |
|
Status |
The status of the recommendation, whether it is new, in progress, completed, or dismissed. |
Yes |
|
Cloud Resource Id |
The cloud resource Id for AWS or Azure resource for which the recommendation is created. |
No |
|
Complexity |
The complexity of the recommendation, whether it is high, medium, or low. |
Yes |
|
Value |
The outcome of the recommendation, whether it is high, medium, or low. |
Yes |
|
Recommendation Date |
The date when the recommendation was created. Note: If not specified, then the system will consider the date when the recommendation was created. |
No |
|
Potential Saving |
Expected savings as per the recommendation. |
No |
|
Realized Saving |
Actual savings after taking the recommended action. |
No |