Add ML forecasting to your SaaS solutions

Highly accurate forecasts

Leverage Amazon’s 20+ years of experience in Machine Learning to deliver highly-accurate forecasts

Scalable

Scale your workloads, from small to large customers, with a fully managed, scalable, multi-tenancy infrastructure

Full API / SDK Support

Integrate ML-based forecasts into your SaaS application using fully functional and documented APIs

Customized forecasts

Allow your customers to customize forecast parameters based on their specific use case

Modularized

Create multiple pricing tiers based on customer size and need for modular capabilities such as model drift detection, what-if, and forecast explainability

Built In Datasets

Easily include data such as weather and holidays into to models to improve forecasts

Use cases

Inventory planning

Reduce waste, increase inventory turns, and improve in-stock availability

Retail forecasting

Forecast product demand at specific probability levels to reduce stock-outs of high-yield products

Energy demand forecasting

Use built-in weather data to predict energy consumption and optimize capacity planning to prevent shortages

Workforce planning

Forecast workforce demands at 15 minute increments to optimize staffing levels for high and low demand periods

Travel and guest forecasting

Forecast foot traffic, visitor counts, and channel demand to more efficiently manage operating costs

Financial planning

Forecast sales and top-line revenues to more effectively manage cash flows

Case studies

  • Demand planning solutions
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    Anaplan

    Anaplan Inc. is a cloud-native enterprise SaaS company helping global enterprises orchestrate business performance. Leaders across industries rely on their platform to connect teams systems and insights from across their organizations to continuously adapt to change transform how they operate and reinvent value creation. Based in San Francisco Anaplan has over 20 offices globally 175 partners and approximately 1500 customers worldwide.

    "Our high-impact partnership with Amazon Forecast lets customers weave predictive intelligence across use cases like demand management, financial forecasting, and workforce planning.”

    - Rohit Shrivastava, Chief Product Officer, Anaplan

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    "Our high-impact partnership with Amazon Forecast lets customers weave predictive intelligence across use cases like demand management, financial forecasting, and workforce planning. The enhanced forecast accuracy our PlanIQ solution delivers, which embeds Amazon Forecast, leads to greater intelligence-driven decisions, and its seamless integration within the Anaplan platform makes it easy to leverage different levels of information and data. Customers such as South Central Ambulance Services were up and running in only 2.5 weeks, using PlanIQ to deliver more-accurate weekly and six-week rolling forecasts. By helping them mitigate risk— particularly around spikes in patient demand—PlanIQ helps ensure they’ve got the right resources to deliver the best patient responses and outcomes."

    - Rohit Shrivastava, Chief Product Officer, Anaplan

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    Datup

    Datup is a Demand Planning and Inventory Optimization SaaS platform for manufacturing and retail companies to transform data in time and capital savings. Datup solution allows its customers to integrate multiple sources, such as ERPs, spreadsheets and plain files in the cloud. Datup's AI-oriented technology in forecasting and inventory optimization allows our customers to increase their revenues improving service levels and release working capital avoiding overstocks.

    "improve their service levels and fill rates over 92%, while releasing up to 20% of capital derived from overstocks and obsoletes"

    - Ramiro Chaparro, CTO & Co-Founder, Datup

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    "In Datup, we are committed to partner with our customers in the adoption path of emerging technologies for their supply chains, which could translate into operational efficiency and sustainability. Amazon Forecast has been an excellent match to our platform, in order to achieve accuracy, concurrency and agility. Our customers (self-service or high-touch), expect the *processing of hundreds to thousands of sku-locations, within few hours, to make on-time and best-informed decisions upon their operation plans. *The dynamic and accurate input into our inventory optimization feature, obtained from the forecasts, has helped our customers to *improve their service levels and fill rates over 92%, while releasing up to 20% of capital derived from overstocks and obsoletes.”

    - Ramiro Chaparro, CTO & Co-Founder, Datup

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    ketteQ

    ketteQ is a unique digital platform for supply chain planning and automation solutions built in and deployed on Salesforce and AWS clouds, scale and security. Built by supply chain experts with decades of experience, ketteQ offers advanced data management and analytics combined with collaborative and automated workflows designed for security, scalability and configurability. Based in Atlanta, Georgia ketteQ has a team, partners and customers that span the globe.

    "ketteQ’s partnership with AWS allows us to offer to our clients a comprehensive forecasting solution that combines the innovative science of Amazon Forecast with the collaborative and consensus forecasting capability of ketteQ"

    - Dr. Nikhil Jain, Head of Product – ketteQ

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    "ketteQ's demand planning and forecasting solution is used to generate forecasts for a variety of use cases, including forecasting for retail and omnichannel businesses, service parts forecasting, seasonal product forecasting, promotions planning and beyond. ketteQ’s partnership with AWS allows us to offer to our clients a comprehensive forecasting solution that combines the innovative science of Amazon Forecast with the collaborative and consensus forecasting capability of ketteQ. The combination of insights derived from historical data with forward-looking intelligence from sales, marketing and finance produces a highly accurate forecast."

    - Dr. Nikhil Jain, Head of Product – ketteQ

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    Forenamics

    At Forenamics, their mission is to combat supply chain inefficiencies within Fast-Moving Consumer Goods manufacturing companies. Through their high-end demand planning solutions, customers are able to plan their own production more accurately to avoid both overproduction and underproduction. Forenamics is based in Cologne, Germany, and serves customers ranging from global industry leaders to the Mittelstand.

    "Amazon Forecast has been an excellent partner in business and match to our platform, in order to achieve accuracy, concurrency and agility"

    - Jonathan Kurth, Founder & CEO - Forenamics

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    "At Forenamics, we are committed to providing our customers with the highest demand planning accuracy possible. We help our customers to better understand the key demand drivers such as promotions, marketing, pricing and much more. Our unique, high accuracy forecasting model reduces overproduction by up to 35% as well as underproduction by 25% resulting in significantly higher deliverability and waste reduction. Amazon Forecast has been an excellent partner in business and match to our platform, in order to achieve accuracy, concurrency and agility.”

    - Jonathan Kurth, Founder & CEO - Forenamics

  • E-Commerce analytics solutions
  • RetentionX

    RetentionX is the plug-and-play analytics solution for any ecommerce store looking to make the best business decisions based on AI-driven data analytics. RetentionX translates your data into clear actions, replacing the power of an entire data science team with just one, easyto- use tool.

    "We chose Amazon Forecast for the ease of integration and having the whole architecture at AWS. Amazon Forecast allowed us to scale from 5 to more than 200 individual forecast models in less than a week.”

     - Alexander Jost, CEO, RetentionX

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    "Our direct-to-consumer customers are looking for quick insights to manage their business operations and drive automated actions. We integrate with any ecommerce system, such as Shopify, and offer more than 100 data science-driven analytics such as demand forecasts, customer lifetime value, churn prediction, cohort analysis, and revenue forecasts. With one click, customers using RetentionX can generate custom machine learning based forecasts on the fly, powered by Amazon Forecast. We chose Amazon Forecast for the ease of integration and having the whole architecture at AWS. Amazon Forecast allowed us to scale from 5 to more than 200 individual forecast models in less than a week. As a software-asa- service solution with hundreds of predictive models, scalability and availability is a must.”

    - Alexander Jost, CEO, RetentionX

  • Marketing intelligence solutions
  • Remarkably

    Remarkably is a marketing intelligence solution for U.S. multifamily real estate teams. The platform enables customers to stay on top of marketing and leasing performance issues, risks and opportunities so they can drive higher revenue, more efficiently, at lower cost, with better ROI.

    “We leveraged Amazon Forecast for our product s KPI forecasts, with great results. The integration was relatively simple, fast and cost-effective, which allowed us to deliver a high-value, stable forecasts to customers on schedule and within budget.”

    - Anna-Lea Dieringer, Co-Founder, Remarkably

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    “Leading U.S. multifamily marketing teams use Remarkably to monitor and analyze their property marketing and leasing funnels, and their advertising channel performance and ROI. Our customers value historical data that indicates what’s happened, and KPI forecasts indicating what’s likely to happen, so they can take action to avoid risks and capitalize on opportunities. These two important data sets help our users optimize valuable marketing resources and avoid drops in occupancy and revenue. We leveraged Amazon Forecast for our product’s KPI forecasts, with great results. The integration was relatively simple, fast and cost-effective, which allowed us to deliver a high-value, stable forecasts to customers on schedule and within budget.”

    - Anna-Lea Dieringer, Co-Founder, Remarkably

How to get started

CloudFormation templates

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Multi-tenancy environments

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