Use this article to understand how Portfolio Views help teams review technology spend across applications, products, services, solutions, vendors, and contracts.
Review technology portfolios from different lenses
Portfolio Views help teams review spend across applications, products, services, solutions, vendors, and contracts.
Each portfolio gives a focused view of a specific part of the technology estate. Teams can use these views to understand where spend is concentrated, how costs trend over time, and which areas need deeper review.
What you can do
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Review application spend across the organization.
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Analyze product and service TCO.
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Review solution offering spend.
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Track vendor portfolio spend.
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Review contract portfolio information.
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Compare current spend with prior year spend where available.
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Review spend by cost pool, tower, cost center, and category.
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Drill into transaction level spend from portfolio reports.
Application Portfolio
Application Portfolio gives teams a consolidated view of application spend.
Users can review hosting spend, top applications, cost pools, cost centers, spend by purpose, and towers. This helps teams understand which applications are driving cost and where further investigation is needed.
Product and Service Portfolio
Product Portfolio and Service Portfolio help teams review the cost of products and services.
These views support TCO analysis and allow users to review spend by cost pool, tower, cost center, category, delivery model, and monthly trend.
They are useful when teams need to understand the cost of delivering specific products or services to the business.
Solution Portfolio
Solution Portfolio gives teams a consolidated view of solution offering spend.
Users can review monthly spend, top solutions, cost pools, cost centers, spend by category, and towers.
This helps teams understand which solution offerings carry the most cost and how those costs are distributed through the model.
Vendor and Contract Portfolio
Vendor Portfolio helps teams review vendor spend across the technology model.
Contracts Portfolio gives a view of contracts, including active, upcoming, and expired contracts where available.
Together, these views support vendor reviews, contract discussions, and spend governance.
How teams use Portfolio Views
Technology owners use portfolio views to understand the cost of the applications, products, services, and solutions they manage.
Finance teams use them to review spend concentration, variance, and business ownership.
Vendor and procurement teams use vendor and contract views to support renewal planning and commercial reviews.
Portfolio views help teams move from broad spend visibility to focused ownership conversations.
What makes it different
Portfolio Views connect technology assets and commercial structures to the same financial model used across Yarken.
Spend is not reviewed only by account or vendor. It can be reviewed by the way the business experiences technology through applications, products, services, solutions, vendors, and contracts.
This helps teams understand cost in the language of ownership, service delivery, and business consumption.
When to use Portfolio Views
Use Portfolio Views when you need to review a specific part of the technology estate.
Use Application Portfolio for application cost review.
Use Product and Service Portfolio for product or service TCO.
Use Solution Portfolio for solution offering spend.
Use Vendor and Contract Portfolio for commercial and supplier review.
For detailed step by step instructions on using portfolio dashboards, filters, drilldowns, and transaction level reports, refer to the relevant user guides.
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