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Platform Vendor Spend

The Platform Vendor Spend report provides an overview of platform spend for a filtered vendor. This allows you to see a detailed breakdown of your platform spend for a particular vendor.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Vendors chart in the Platform TCO dashboard and is scoped to a selected vendor.

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


KPIs

Spend (YTD)

Year to date spend

Total Prior Year Spend

Total spend for the prior year.


Prior Year Spend (YTD)

Year-to-date spend in the prior year.


Variance (YTD)

Difference between current year spend (YTD) and prior year spend (YTD).


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 Spend By Platform

This chart shows the monthly spend by the hosting platforms.

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

Platform as a Percentage of Total IT Spend

The Platform as a Percentage of Total IT Spend chart shows the total platform spend as a percentage of total IT spend. The chart compares the total platform spend with the total IT spend and shows the value in terms of amount and percentage.

Cost Pools

The Cost Pools chart shows the cumulative year to date spend and prior year to date spend broken down by TBM Cost Pool.

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

Towers

This chart shows the cumulative year to date spend and prior year to date spend broken down by tower for the given filter criteria.

Click on any tower to drill down to the transaction level.

Vendor Spend Details

This table shows the vendor spend trend for month-on-month spend. Spend is shown as total spend and prior year spend for each month for the filtered vendor.

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

Applications

The Applications table shows applications that consume platform resources and are hosted on supported platforms. This view includes applications where the hosting platform is mapped to the selected platform asset types such as Cloud, Mainframe, or Server.

Products

The Products table shows products that consume platform resources and are hosted on supported platforms. This view includes products where the hosting platform is mapped to the selected platform asset types such as Cloud, Mainframe, or Server.

Services

The Services table shows services that consume platform resources and are hosted on supported platforms. This view includes services where the hosting platform is mapped to the selected platform asset types such as Cloud, Mainframe, or Server.



Data sources

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

Chart name

Data cube

Spend Model

Multiple Cubes

Monthly Spend

Spend

Server as a Percentage of Total IT Spend

Spend

Cost Pools

Spend

Towers

Spend

Vendor Spend Details

Spend

Applications

Asset TCO

Products

Asset TCO

Services

Asset TCO