Applications Manager has roped in machine learning techniques to give a boost to your forecast reports. This feature will help users make accurate estimates of growth trend of attributes like disk utilization of servers, database size, etc. so that they can plan capacity better. 

  

The primary objective of utilizing ML methods in the field of forecasting is to improve the forecasting accuracy by minimizing some loss function. 

If you turn the Machine Learning feature on, then you can view the forecast based on growth trend upto 3 years in the future. You can also provide custom future date, to retrieve necessary reports.