Use this article to understand how Yarken connects technology spend to applications, products, services, solution offerings, and consumers.
Connect technology cost to business consumption
Applications, Products, Services, and Consumers help teams understand how technology spend supports the business.
Yarken uses asset and solution structures to connect spend to applications, products, services, solution offerings, and consumers. This helps teams move beyond financial categories and see what technology services cost, who uses them, and where accountability belongs.
What you can do
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Analyze spend by application, product, or service.
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Review solution offering spend for the current period.
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Understand which consumers are using technology services.
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Connect spend from assets into applications, products, and services.
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Review unallocated asset spend that has not yet been distributed.
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Track solution offering spend by cost pool, tower, and cost center.
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Support showback and chargeback with consumer level spend.
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Understand service consumption across business units or consumer groups.
Applications, Products, and Services
Applications, Products, and Services represent the technology assets and offerings that consume or carry spend.
Asset spend can be consolidated into applications, products, or services. Once allocated, this spend can flow into solution offerings and support reporting on the cost of technology services.
This helps teams understand the total cost of applications and services, not only the vendors, accounts, or cost centers behind them.
Solution Offerings
Solution Offerings help represent the services or offerings delivered to the business.
Yarken can report on solution offering spend and show how cost is distributed across related cost pools, towers, cost centers, and monthly spend detail.
Solution Offering Spend on Home shows the top solution offerings by spend, giving teams a fast view of which services are driving cost.
Consumers
Consumers represent the business users or groups consuming technology services.
The Consumers layer helps teams understand who uses IT services and how spend should be assigned or reported across the organization.
Consumer spend supports showback, chargeback, reporting, and business accountability.
Unallocated asset spend
Unallocated asset spend shows asset level spend that has not yet been distributed to applications, products, or services.
This is important because unallocated spend can block downstream visibility into solution offerings and consumers.
Reviewing unallocated asset spend helps teams validate that cost is flowing correctly through the model and that applications, products, and services reflect the right cost base.
How teams use it
Technology owners use these views to understand the cost of applications, platforms, products, and services.
Finance teams use them to connect spend to business consumption and improve cost transparency.
Business leaders use consumer views to understand which services their teams consume and how those services affect overall technology cost.
Together, these layers help Yarken translate technology spend into business meaningful accountability.
What makes it different
Applications, Products, Services, and Consumers connect the technical view of IT to the business view of value and consumption.
Spend is not left at the GL, vendor, or cost center level. It is connected to what the business actually uses.
This creates a stronger foundation for service costing, showback, chargeback, investment decisions, and TBM aligned reporting.
When to use Applications, Products, Services, and Consumers
Use these views when you need to understand service cost, application cost, product cost, or consumer demand.
Use unallocated asset spend when you need to identify gaps in allocation.
Use solution and consumer views when preparing for showback, chargeback, service reviews, or business unit discussions.
For detailed step by step instructions on asset allocation, solution offerings, consumer mapping, unallocated asset spend, and related reports, refer to the relevant user guides.
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