Recommendations are an important element within Anodot Cost, and reflect potential savings and actionable suggestions.
Each recommendation can be one of the following statuses:
- Open - Ready for users to review and act upon.
- Completed - Marked as completed by a user.
- Completed by system - Identified to be completed by the system.
- Excluded - Snoozed for a period of time by users as it is not currently relevant.
Accessing and viewing recommendations
- Open recommendations can be viewed in the Recommendations Dashboard page (click Recommendations > Dashboard), as shown below.
- Excluded recommendations are viewed by clicking Recommendations > Exclusions.
- The Completed and Completed by system recommendations are viewed by clicking Recommendations > History.
The Recommendations Dashboard also includes information on Cloud Waste (in the right panel, as shown in more detail below).
The waste is calculated from the saving opportunity selected in the left pane. These waste values, as described below, are essentially the recommendations.
- Actual Cost is what you paid that day (the blue line).
- Target Waste is defined as 10% of the Actual Cost, as reasonable waste (shown in yellow).
- Over Waste is everything above 10% (shown in red).
- Waste Percent is the Target Waste + Over Waste, as a percentage.