Application TCO

The Application TCO dashboard provides a complete breakdown of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a selected application.

It brings together application-related spend and shows how that cost is distributed across cost pools, towers, hosting types, vendors, labors, cost centers, assets, and cloud service categories. This makes it easy to understand what is driving the application’s total cost, and where optimization opportunities may exist.

Scope

This dashboard includes:

• Spend allocated to Applications asset type

Who should use this dashboard?

• IT Management

• IT Finance

• Technology Executives

• Portfolio and Tower Owners

• Cost Center Managers

What is this dashboard used for?

Use this dashboard to:

• Understand the true cost profile of an application

• Compare current year application spend to prior year performance

• View how application spend distributed across different cost pools, towers, vendors, labours, and cost centers

What questions does this dashboard answer?

This dashboard helps answer questions like:

• What is the total spend (YTD) for this application?

• How does the application’s spend compare to the prior year?

• Which cost pools contribute the most to this application’s spend?

• Which towers are consuming the most cost?

• What portion of spend is driven by:

  • Cloud hosting?

  • Labor?

  • Vendors?

• Which cost centers are funding this application?

• Is the application’s spend trending up or down month-to-month?

• Which cloud services are driving the application’s cloud costs?

Key benefits

• Full TCO visibility for a single application

• Clear cost driver identification within any application

For detailed instructions on navigating dashboards and using filters, see: Navigation and filters

KPIs

Charts and tables

Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.

Spend Model

The Spend Model uses a Sankey-style flow to visually show how spend moves through your TBM structure.

Hover over any section to view detailed values.

Monthly Spend

This chart shows the monthly trend for month-on-month and cumulative year to date spend. Spend is shown as total spend and prior year spend for each month.

Click on any month column to drill into the transaction level spend for the month.

Monthly Hosting Spend

This chart shows a detailed breakdown of the monthly spend by hosting types for the filtered criteria. The hosting types include Cloud, Mainframe, SaaS, and Virtual.

Click on any month to drill into transaction level spend for the given hosting type.

Vendors

The Vendors chart shows a breakdown of spend by vendors for the given filter criteria.

Click on any vendor to drill into related GL transaction.

Labor

The Labor chart shows a breakdown of application spend by labor category. The labor spend is shown as YTD spend and prior year YTD spend at cost pool and sub cost pool level.

Top 20 Cost Centers

This chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by cost centers.

Click on a cost centers to see a drill down to the transaction level.

Monthly Tower Spend

The Monthly Tower Spend chart shows the monthly application spend broken down by tower.

Click on any tower to drill into the related GL transaction.

Monthly Cost Pool Spend

The Monthly Cost Pools Spend chart shows monthly spend broken down by cost pool.

Click on any cost pool to drill into the related GL transaction.

Asset Spend

The Asset Spend chart shows monthly asset spend allocated to the filtered application from any asset type.

Click on any asset to drill into the related GL transaction.

Monthly Cloud Spend

The Monthly Cloud Spend chart shows the application’s monthly cloud spend broken down by service category such as Compute, Databases, Storage, and Networking. This helps you understand which cloud services are driving the application’s cloud costs and how those services trend over time.

Click on any service category to drill into the related GL transaction.

Application Spend Details

This chart shows the application spend trend for month-on-month. Spend is shown as YTD, prior year spend and variance for each month.

Click on any row to drill into the transaction level spend for the month.

Data sources

The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.