What's new in Zylo

Gain better visibility into your Slack usage with the Slack Utilization integration, now enhanced for Enterprise Slack plans. This updated integration solves data gaps for organizations on the Enterprise Grid by centralizing activity data from all workspaces into a single view within Zylo.

Key Benefits

• Centralized Enterprise Grid visibility: Monitor total user activity and footprint across your entire Slack Enterprise Organization in one place.
• Reliable usage data: Access last-activity dates across all user agents, including desktop, web, and mobile.
• Effective license positioning: Identify the exact number of paid licenses needed by viewing account types and active status across all workspaces.
• Improved security posture: Identify inactive single or multi-channel guests who no longer require access to your environment.
• Simplified administration: Connect a single integration to capture data from your entire Enterprise Grid rather than managing multiple workspace connections.

The Slack Utilization integration uses Slack's specialized admin scopes to fetch comprehensive data, including account types, workspace memberships, and last activity dates. This data is automatically mapped to Zylo's license management workflows.

Learn more: Connect the Slack Enterprise integration

Gain visibility into your upcoming SaaS renewals even when contracts haven't been uploaded to Zylo. By utilizing standardized, logic-based estimates derived from historical payment data and expired agreements, you can now prioritize renewal opportunities and capture cost savings at the most impactful moment.

Key Benefits

• Proactive renewal planning: Identify applications approaching renewal without manual tracking or external tools.
• Data-driven prioritization: Surface high-value renewal opportunities based on reliable spend and contract patterns.
• Transparent calculation logic: Hover over any estimated date to see exactly how it was calculated, from expired contract extensions to AP transaction history.
• Improved data accuracy: Set custom net payment terms at the account level to ensure your estimates reflect your organization's actual financial cycles.
• Seamless data verification: Easily replace estimates with verified data by clicking the direct "Add Contract Details" option.

Zylo uses a prioritized logic-based approach to determine an estimated renewal date, automatically checking for future contract dates, recent contract expirations, and the largest historical AP transactions adjusted for your specific net payment terms.

Learn more: Manage Estimated Renewal Dates

Now generally available: take control of your AI spend with the OpenAI API integration. This direct integration provides the centralized visibility IT, SAM, and FinOps teams need to track OpenAI API cost consumption against contractual spend commitments. Now you can monitor real-time usage to prevent overages and accurately forecast future AI investments.

Key Benefits

• Eliminate surprise overages: Use proactive alerting to monitor costs in real-time and receive notifications before you exceed your OpenAI API spend commitments.
• Granular SKU-level insights: Drill down into consumption by SKU (including models like GPT-4o and DALL-E) to understand exactly what is driving your AI costs.
• Data-driven renewal strategies: Access reliable historical consumption patterns to strengthen your position during contract negotiations and right-size future AI investments.
• Centralized consumption tracking: View total accrued costs and usage records across all projects and workspaces in one unified dashboard.
• Automated commitment monitoring: Automatically compare actual usage against your defined annual spend commitments to ensure you remain within budget.

This integration connects directly via Admin API key to pull historical and real-time consumption data. After connecting, use Zylo's consumption automations to create customized alerts based on the percentage of your commitment consumed.

Learn more: Configure the OpenAI integration

Associate multiple email addresses with a single employee record to ensure accurate utilization tracking and spend attribution across your organization. This capability helps you maintain data integrity by rolling up activity from multiple addresses—such as those from acquisitions or legacy domains—to one unique employee identifier.

Important Note: This feature is not yet generally available and is currently available as a Public Preview for Customer use in its discretion. For more information, contact your Zylo representative.

Key Benefits

• Accurate user counts: Ensure unique provisioned and active user counts reflect actual employees rather than duplicate email addresses.
• Improved utilization tracking: Track all activity across multiple email addresses and roll it up to a single employee for comprehensive utilization insights.
• Better spend attribution: Associate costs across all email aliases to the correct employee for accurate spend analysis.
• Duplicate user detection: Identify when the same employee is accessing an application with multiple email addresses to find consolidation opportunities.
• Flexible communication: Choose whether to send workflow surveys to an employee's login email, their primary email, or both.
• Reliable automations: Ensure Slack and Teams notifications reach the intended recipient by automatically matching aliases to messaging account IDs.

By importing an "Alias" column in your Zylo HRIS data with comma-separated emails, you map multiple addresses to one employee record. Zylo deduplicates these, assigning a unique employee identifier and ensuring all linked application usage, licenses, and spend are correctly attributed to that employee.

Learn more: Configure Enterprise Email Alias Support

Track OpenAI API cost consumption directly against your spend commitments in Zylo. Connect the OpenAI integration to unlock comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and forecasting. Gain a centralized view of your AI footprint by identifying exactly which models are being used and how those costs interact with your contractual agreements to prevent overspending.

Important Note: This feature is not yet generally available and is currently available as a Public Preview for Customer use in its discretion. For more information, contact your Zylo representative.

Key Benefits

• Real-time commitment tracking: Monitor current costs accrued in your contract term compared to your total OpenAI spend commitment.
• Granular cost visibility: Drill down into spend by SKU, including specific models like GPT-4o and DALL-E, and roll up data by project or input/output type.
• Proactive spend management: Use consumption automations to receive alerts when usage hits specific thresholds, helping you avoid unexpected overages.
• Data-driven renewals: Gather precise usage data points to strengthen your position during upcoming OpenAI contract negotiations.

Connect your OpenAI API developer platform integration with Zylo in minutes to unlock historical consumption data. Then create and customize automated alerts, and monitor usage data to help your organization stay ahead of consumption spend.

Learn more: Configure the OpenAI integration

Gain centralized visibility into your Anthropic API developer platform usage and costs through a direct integration with Zylo that tracks consumption against your spend commitments. Proactively monitor consumption to prevent surprise overage charges. With enough historical data, this integration empowers your team to better forecast future AI renewals by providing a robust monitoring and alerting solution within the Zylo platform.

Important Note: This feature is not yet generally available and is currently available as a Public Preview for Customer use in its discretion. For more information, contact your Zylo representative.

Key Benefits

• Eliminate surprise payments: Use proactive alerting and monitoring to prevent unexpected overage charges from Anthropic's API.
• Accurate renewal forecasting: Track consumption data to better predict and budget for future Anthropic contract renewals.
• Centralized consumption visibility: View Anthropic API cost consumption down by workspace, model, service tier, and token type.
• Right-size AI investments: Monitor actual consumption spend data against annual commitments and forecasted data to optimize your AI spend.

The Anthropic integration connects directly via an Admin API key to pull consumption data. After connecting, Zylo automatically monitors how your actual usage performs against your defined annual spend commitments.

Learn more: Configure the Anthropic integration

Gain critical visibility and control over your usage-based applications like OpenAI and Anthropic with new consumption forecasting and alerting capabilities in Zylo. You can now predict future spend trajectories and receive automated notifications of usage spikes, ensuring your AI and infrastructure costs remain aligned with your budget and contractual commitments.

Important Note: This feature is not yet generally available and is currently available as a Public Preview for Customer use in its discretion. For more information, contact your Zylo representative.

Key Benefits

• Predictive spend visibility: Use historical data and advanced modeling to forecast future consumption and identify potential overages before they occur.
• Proactive cost control: Set automated alerts for specific thresholds, such as a percentage of your total commitment, to catch spend spikes in real-time.
• Optimized contract renewals: Leverage detailed historical cost patterns and SKU-level breakdowns to negotiate better discounts during your next renewal cycle.
• Eliminated "sticker shock": Maintain constant awareness of your spend trajectory to avoid unexpected six-figure overages at the end of your term.

Zylo uses up to 18 months of historical data and Meta's open-source Prophet model to generate forecasts for your consumption integrations. By monitoring technical metrics like compute hours or API calls translated into financial insights, IT and FinOps teams can confidently manage complex, high-growth applications.

Learn more: Consumption Integrations | Monitor Consumption Usage with Integrations

Maintain a single source of truth for your contract details by editing comments directly on the Contracts page. You can now instantly add or update internal notes and reference information without navigating away from your primary contract view.

Key Benefits

• Streamlined data management: Update contract notes immediately within your natural workflow.
• Increased efficiency: Save time by eliminating the need for multi-page navigation or administrative requests to modify fields.
• Enhanced contract data: Document contract attributes that aren't captured in standard fields.

Users with Contracts Edit permissions can now modify the Comments field on a contract at any time. Navigate to Vendor Data > Contracts. Select a contract and click Edit to access and edit the Comments field.

Learn more: Contracts Page - Field Definitions

As of January 26, 2026, Zylo is updating terminology throughout the product, replacing “Spend” with “Payments.” This change improves clarity by accurately reflecting that Zylo tracks actual transactions (money paid to vendors) rather than budgets, commitments, or forecasts. The terminology update also aligns better with industry standards.

Important: These changes affect display labels only. The underlying data, calculations, and API properties remain exactly the same. Your data, saved filters, and workflows remain unchanged.

Terms Being Updated

• Annual Spend > Annual Payments (Trailing 12 Months)
• AP Spend > AP Payments
• Expense Spend > Expense Payments
• Total Spend > Total Payments
• YTD Spend > YTD Payments
• Fiscal YTD Spend > Fiscal YTD Payments
• Contract Term Spend > Contract Term Payments

Key Benefits

• Clarity and Accuracy: “Payments” precisely describes what Zylo tracks—actual transactions where money has been paid to vendors.
• Alignment with Industry Standards: Terms like "AP Payments," "Expense Payments," and "PO Payments" are standard in Finance and Procurement departments.
• Improved Trust and Understanding: Clear, accurate labels mean you can confidently share Zylo data with leadership without needing to translate or explain what the numbers represent.
• Better Differentiation Between Metrics: The distinctions between different financial metrics become more intuitive, making it easier to find and use the right data.

URL Changes

• /inventory/spend/payments > /financial-data/payments
• /inventory/spend/unmatched-payments > /financial-data/unmatched-payments

Learn more: Understanding the Change: “Spend” to “Payments” in Zylo

Centralized governance for AI features across your organization. Enable or disable AI capabilities at the organization level to maintain control as Zylo's AI suite expands.

Key Benefits

• Organization-Level Management: Control AI feature access centrally.
• Flexible Adoption: Opt into capabilities at your own pace.
• Policy Alignment: Ensure AI usage aligns with internal governance requirements.

This governance foundation gives you control over AI adoption while providing flexibility to leverage new capabilities when ready.

Learn more: Enterprise AI Controls

Generate reports by typing questions in natural language. Instead of building complex filters manually, just ask a question like "Which contracts over $100K are renewing in Q2?" to get filtered results.

Key Benefits

• Natural Language Processing: Convert questions into table filters.
• Automated Filtering: Apply multiple filter criteria from a single query.
• Reduced Manual Work: Skip multi-step filter configuration.

This feature reduces time spent building filters and makes data more accessible across teams with varying technical expertise.

Learn more: AI Smart Filters: AI-powered Data Filtering

Automatically drive action on key SaaS Management initiatives by connecting Zylo to your Jira environment for the purpose of creating Jira tickets directly from Zylo.

Key Benefits

• Automated Ticket Creation: Send Zylo data to Jira to create tickets automatically for critical use cases such as Contract Renewals, New Application Onboarding, License Reclamation, Application Security Reviews and more.
• Streamlined Workflows: Assign tickets to the appropriate teams for action.
• Improved Reporting: Track action taken on key Applications and report on the progress of associated Jira tickets.
• Enhanced Accountability: Gain increased visibility into the Jira tickets that drive outcomes across your SaaS Management program.

This integration increases efficiency by automating the creation of Jira tickets that drive action, relating tickets created through Zylo to an Application record in Zylo and creating an audit trail for SaaS Management outcomes driven through Jira.

Learn more: Create & Monitor Tickets in Jira