Product TCO

The Product TCO dashboard provides a complete view of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a selected product. It helps users understand how product spend is trending over time, how it compares to the prior year, and how that spend is distributed across cost pools, towers, vendors, labor, and other key dimensions.

It brings together application-related spend and shows how that cost is distributed across cost pools, towers, hosting types, vendors, labors, cost centers, assets, and cloud service categories.

This makes it easy to understand what is driving the product’s total cost, and where optimization opportunities may exist.

Scope

This dashboard includes:

• Spend allocated to Products asset type

Who should use this dashboard?

• IT Management

• IT Finance

• Product and business owners

• Technology Executives

• Portfolio and Tower Owners

• Cost Center Managers

What is this dashboard used for?

Use this dashboard to:

• Understand the true cost profile of a product

• Compare current year product spend to prior year performance

• View how product spend distributed across different cost pools, towers, vendors, labors, and cost centers

What questions does this dashboard answer?

This dashboard helps answer questions like:

• What is the total spend (YTD) for this product?

• How does the product’s spend compare to the prior year?

• Which cost pools contribute the most to this product’s spend?

• Which towers are consuming the most cost?

• What portion of spend is driven by:

  • Cloud service category?

  • Labor?

  • Vendors?

• Which cost centers are funding this product?

• Is the product’s spend trending up or down month-to-month?

• Which cloud services are driving the product’s cloud costs?

Key benefits

• Full TCO visibility for a single product

• Clear cost driver identification within any product

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

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.

Charts and Tables

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

The Monthly Spend chart shows the month-on-month trend and the cumulative year to date spend. Spend is shown as total spend and prior year spend for each month. The cumulative dotted spend line predicts spend for future months based on historic spend.

Click on any spend column to drill into the month and see the spend broken down for the month.

Vendors

The Vendors chart shows a breakdown of spend by vendors for the given filter criteria.

Click on any vendor to drill into related GL transaction.

Labor

The Labor chart shows a breakdown of product spend by labor category. The labor spend is shown as YTD spend and prior year YTD spend at cost pool and sub cost pool level.

Top 20 Cost Centers

This chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by cost centers.

Click on a cost centers to see a drill down to the transaction level.

Monthly Tower Spend

The Monthly Tower Spend chart shows the monthly product spend broken down by tower.

Click on any tower to drill into the related GL transaction.

Monthly Cost Pool Spend

The Monthly Cost Pools Spend chart shows monthly product spend broken down by cost pool.

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

Asset Spend

The Asset Spend chart shows monthly asset spend allocated to the filtered product from any asset type.

Click on any asset to drill into the related GL transaction.

Monthly Cloud Spend

The Monthly Cloud Spend chart shows the monthly product cloud spend broken down by service category such as Compute, Databases, Storage, and Networking. This helps you understand which cloud services are driving the product’s cloud costs and how those services trend over time.

Click on any service category to drill into the related GL transaction.

Product Spend Details

This chart shows the product spend trend for month-on-month. Spend is shown as YTD spend, prior year spend and variance for each month.

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

Data sources

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