https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/en-gb/technical-advice en-gb Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:11:50 GMT 2025-01-20T08:11:50Z en-gb https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/en-gb/technical-advice/forecasting-basic-time-series-decomposition-in-excel <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/en-gb/technical-advice/forecasting-basic-time-series-decomposition-in-excel" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/hubfs/Blog/Blog%20Images/Basic%20Time%20Series%20Decomposition%20in%20Excel.jpeg" alt="Basic Time Series Decomposition in Excel.jpeg" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>A common scenario – you have measured CPU on your servers for the past few months. CPU has been steadily growing, and you want to predict how soon you will need to buy new servers. You need to forecast. But how? The aim of this post is to go over the simplest way to build a forecast and to show how to do it in Microsoft Excel.</p> <div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/en-gb/technical-advice/forecasting-basic-time-series-decomposition-in-excel" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/hubfs/Blog/Blog%20Images/Basic%20Time%20Series%20Decomposition%20in%20Excel.jpeg" alt="Basic Time Series Decomposition in Excel.jpeg" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>A common scenario – you have measured CPU on your servers for the past few months. CPU has been steadily growing, and you want to predict how soon you will need to buy new servers. You need to forecast. But how? The aim of this post is to go over the simplest way to build a forecast and to show how to do it in Microsoft Excel.</p> <img src="https://track.hubspot.com/__ptq.gif?a=2045131&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fhs.capacitas.co.uk%2Fen-gb%2Ftechnical-advice%2Fforecasting-basic-time-series-decomposition-in-excel&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fhs.capacitas.co.uk%252Fen-gb%252Ftechnical-advice&amp;bvt=rss" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; "> Capacity Planning Forecasting Prepare for Peak Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:44:08 GMT thomasbarns@capacitas.co.uk (Thomas Barns) https://hs.capacitas.co.uk/en-gb/technical-advice/forecasting-basic-time-series-decomposition-in-excel 2013-01-14T09:44:08Z