What's New in Zylo

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