Yarken Designer

Overview

The Yarken Designer workspace is the administrative foundation of the platform. It enables you to load, structure, and map your IT financial data using the TBM framework.

In Designer, you can transform raw financial and operational data into a structured model that supports cost transparency, allocation, and reporting across the organization.

Key areas in Designer

The Yarken Designer workspace is organized into the following key sections:

• Master Data

• Accounts Payable

• Lookup Types

• Consumption

• Assets

• Models

Workflow in Designer

The Designer workspace follows a structured workflow to help you build data model, starting from configuring the master data to allocating spend across TBM layers:

Data ingestion

1. Load your master data, including Accounts, Cost Centers, Vendors, Solution Offerings, and Consumers.

2. Load account payables data, such as Invoices, Purchase Orders, and Contracts.

3. Load your assets.

4. Load your monthly expenses, budget, or forecast data into respective model.

Data mapping and cost allocation

Once data is loaded, it is mapped step-by-step into the TBM framework:

1. Map your monthly expenses to TBM Cost Pools and Sub Cost Pools using Cost Pool rules.

2. Distribute Cost Pool expense to TBM Towers and Sub Towers using Tower rules.

3. Allocate Tower expenses to one or more assets (for example, hardware to servers) using Asset Rules or Asset Mapping, then assign it to a consuming Applications, Products, or Services.

4. Distribute Applications, Products, or Services expense to the consuming Solutions and Solution Offering using Solution rules or Solution mapping.

5. Map each Solution Offering to one or more Consumers using Consumer mapping to enable solution-to-consumer allocation.

Once all mappings are complete, the distributed data becomes available in dashboards and report.

Related content

• Models

• Expenses

• Cost Pools

• Towers

• Solutions

• Consumers