What changes for administrators
Anthropic announced on October 28, 2026, the addition of three features to the Claude Enterprise business plan, with the stated goal of giving administrators useful information to assess Claude usage and guide budget decisions. According to the company, many organizations have already moved from experimentation by individual employees to widespread use, and at this stage managers need tools that make activities and costs visible. The starting point, the source ITmedia AI+ reconstructs, is growing pressure on IT managers to demonstrate the relationship between AI spending and results achieved.
Reports, surveys and shared budgets
The first feature, called Smart reports, allows the administrator to select the team, the period and the subject of the analysis; the system extracts a portion of the group's conversations and classifies them according to the activities performed. For each category, the report indicates the number of uses, the outputs produced and the objectives achieved, with examples such as mentions of a faulty connector. Each report comes with a list of suggestions, for example actions to add to the code repository when the same type of request recurs; the administrator can share them as artifacts, add their own observations and save the analysis template to reuse in subsequent reports. Anthropic specifies that Smart reports should not be used for individual performance evaluations or employment decisions; organization owners can also enable team leaders to generate reports on their own group.
The second feature, In-app surveys, adds short questionnaires offered to users through a card in the Claude interface after a response. The planned questions concern the usefulness of the work performed, time saved, future uses of the model and what would happen if Claude were unavailable. Administrators can edit or delete questions, choose the audience and timing, collect responses in a spreadsheet and use the tool also for customers who handle sensitive data; data follows the organization's retention policies and Anthropic states that it can access them only for operational purposes of the service.
The third, Pooled group budgets, makes it possible to assign a single shared budget to a group instead of allocating individual quotas, preventing one member's quota exhaustion from blocking the rest of the team. The request is deducted from the group budget and the individual budget and stops when either runs out; the user can request an increase from the Claude screen, but only the administrator can approve it. During configuration, the system shows past usage as a reference, and automatic notifications alert administrators at 50, 75, 95 and 100 percent.
What remains to be verified
The three features are available to organizations using Claude Enterprise, but the source notes that, for customers who handle health data and fall within the scope of the U.S. HIPAA law, the scope of use varies and guidance on application and configuration would be provided by Anthropic in its help center. The material does not indicate prices, nor does it provide measured results on the effectiveness of the new features: the announcement describes capabilities and purposes, while it remains to be verified in the field to what extent the reports and surveys produce reliable data for budget decisions.
