Cost Origination

The Cost Origination dashboard provides an overview of how cloud billed costs are distributed across different cost origination sources for the selected year.

It helps you understand where cloud spend originates by breaking down billed cost across key dimensions such as cloud provider, publisher, and invoice issuer, making it easier to spot shifts, anomalies, and major cost drivers over time.

Scope

This dashboard includes monthly cloud billed cost broken down by:

• Provider

• Publisher

• Invoice issuer

The data shown in this dashboard is sourced from the cloud consumption file loaded into the application.

Who should use this dashboard?

• IT Management

• IT Finance and FinOps teams

• Cloud Management and Cloud Architects

• IT Executives

• Product and Service Owners

What is this dashboard used for?

This dashboard is used to:

• Identify which providers and publishers are driving cost

• Understand the relationship between:

  • Provider (cloud platform)

  • Publisher (software/vendor source)

  • Invoice Issuer (billing entity)

Which cloud provider is driving the most spend this year?

• How is spend trending month to month for each provider?

• Which publisher is responsible for the largest portion of billed cost?

• Which invoice issuer is billing the organization and how is that changing over time?

• Are there unusual spikes tied to a specific provider, publisher, or invoice issuer?

Key benefits

• Improves transparency into where cloud billed costs come from

• Helps identify vendor or billing anomalies (unexpected issuers, publishers, or providers)

• Supports monthly reporting and spend governance

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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.

Monthly Provider Spend

The Monthly Provider Spend chart shows cloud billed cost by month, broken down by cloud provider. The stacked columns highlight how much each provider contributes to the total monthly spend for the selected year.

Click on any provider to drill into the Cost Origination Monthly Spend report for detailed analysis.

Monthly Publisher Spend

The Monthly Publisher Spend chart shows cloud billed cost by month, broken down by publisher. The stacked columns show how publisher-related costs contribute to total monthly spend over time.

Click on any publisher to drill into the Cost Origination Monthly Spend report for detailed analysis.

Monthly Invoice Issuer Spend

The Monthly Invoice Issuer Spend chart shows cloud billed cost by month, broken down by invoice issuer. The stacked columns show how billed costs are distributed across invoice issuers for each month.

Click on any invoice issuer to drill into the Cost Origination Monthly Spend report for detailed analysis.

Data sources

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

Drill down reports

• Cost Origination Monthly Spend