CA Reports

Introduction

Cost Analyzer equips organizations with a powerful reporting suite that transforms data into actionable insights. Using these reports, teams can:

• Analyze cost trends – understand where budgets are being spent across projects and services.
• Monitor resource utilization – track allocation and usage patterns to ensure efficiency.
• Identify optimization opportunities – pinpoint areas to reduce costs and improve ROI.
• Review inline tasks – see team member assignments directly within the application for better accountability.

Together, these reports enable data-driven decision-making, proactive cost control, and alignment with organizational financial goals.

Reports can be scheduled to run automatically at weekly and monthly intervals, with weekly reports delivered every wednesday and monthly reports delivered on the 3rd of each month.

Selecting both weekly and monthly frequencies will prioritize the monthly report if the weekly and monthly scheduled times fall on the same day.

The Generate Now option within each report type configuration allows users to generate monthly reports on demand, outside of the scheduled cycle.

Types of Reports

Cost Analyzer’s reporting suite offers the following types of reports:

• Cost Summary - Delivers a quick comparison of recent cost data to track changes and trends over the past two weeks or months.
• Potential Cost Savings - Highlights opportunities to reduce costs through rightsizing and reservations, with actionable recommendations readily available.
• Executive Cost Summary - An executive-level report that presents cost group expenditures, provides strategic recommendations for optimization through rightsizing and reserved instances, highlights potential savings from optimization schedules, and summarizes forecasting and monitoring activities at the group level.
• Tasks Summary - Summarizes the previous month’s Cost Analyzer tasks in an Excel report, configurable exclusively at the root group level for proactive task monitoring.
• Resources Summary - Highlights resource-level changes over the past two months in an Excel report, with separate sheets for newly charged resources, resources no longer charged, and those with cost savings or overruns exceeding the user-defined cost threshold, supporting informed cost and resource management decisions.