Cost Transparency Overview

The Cost Transparency Dashboard provides a breakdown of all cost allocations based on the TBM model your company has implemented. This allows you to see your total cost from a Finance, IT or Business focused lens.

Who should use this dashboard?

IT- Management, IT-Finance, IT Executives

What is this dashboard used for?

This dashboard shows a high level of year-to-date spend using the TBM Taxonomy. Spend is broken down by Cost Pools, Towers, Solutions and Business Capabilities.

What questions does this Dashboard answer?

• What is the broken-down Cost Pool, Tower, Solution and Business spending year-to-date?

• How does the year-to-date spend compare to the year-to-date budget?

Key Benefits

This dashboard can be used as part of monthly business reporting, financial, and variance analysis.  It provides the high-level detail needed to spot anomalies and the drill-down capability to analyze underlying detail to support investigation of anomalies. 

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

KPIs

Charts

Clicking on any of the chart data bars allows you to drill down into a detailed overview of the selected element.

Cost Pools

The Cost Pool chart shows the cumulative Year to Date spend and Year to Date budget broken down by Cost Pool. Click on any Cost Pool column to drill further into the spend for the Cost Pool.

Towers

The Tower chart shows the cumulative Year to Date spend and Year to Date budget broken down by Tower. Click on any Tower column to drill further into the spend for the Tower.

Solutions

The Solutions chart shows the cumulative Year to Date spend and Year to Date budget broken down by Solution. Click on any Solution column to drill further into the spend for the Solution.

Business Capabilities

The Business Capabilities chart provides a comparison between spend YTD vs. budget YTD for every business capability. The Business Capabilities are also shown in tabular form at the bottom of the dashboard.

Data sources

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

Additional Links:

Drilldown Reports:

• Cost Pool Spend (Cost Transparency)

• Tower Spend (Cost Transparency)

• Solution Spend (Cost Transparency)

Additional resources:

• TBM Cost Pools

• TBM Towers