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Service Portfolio

The Service Portfolio dashboard provides a consolidated view of total service spend across the organization. It presents spend by month, top 20 services, cost pools, cost centers, delivery model, and towers.

This dashboard delivers real-time visibility into service-related costs, enabling you to understand where spend is concentrated, how it compares to the prior year, and how it is distributed across the TBM taxonomy.

Scope

This dashboard includes:

  • Year-to-date (YTD) Service spend

What is this dashboard used for?

The Service Portfolio dashboard provides a high-level financial overview of total service costs. It is used to:

  • Monitor total service spend performance

  • Compare current year spend against prior year

  • Identify high-cost services

  • Understand cost distribution across TBM dimensions

  • Support financial reporting and variance analysis

What questions does this dashboard answer?

  • What is the total cost of my service spend year-to-date?

  • How does the year-to-date spend consume to the prior year-to-date spend?

  • Which services are consuming the most spend?

  • How is my service spend being distributed across the TBM taxonomy?

Key benefits

  • Quickly spot the biggest cost drivers across the product portfolio

  • Understand where product spend is being allocated (cost pool, cost center, tower)

  • Track YTD movement and variance vs prior year


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


KPIs

Spend (YTD)

Total year-to-date service spend

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).

Total Prior Year Spend

Total spend for the prior year.


Potential Savings

The total savings opportunities identified across all services that have not yet been realized.

Realized Savings (YTD

The total savings achieved year-to-date across all services.


Charts and tables

Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.

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.

Top 20 Services

The Top 20 Services chart shows the top 20 services from most to least spend. Spend for each service is shown as YTD spend, prior year YTD spend and variance.

Click on any bar to drill further into the Service TCO dashboard.

Cost Pools

The Cost Pools chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by cost pool.

Click on any cost pool to drill further into the spend for the cost pool.

Top 20 Cost Centers

The Top 20 Cost Centers chart shows the top 20 cost centers from most to least spend. Spend for each cost center is shown as YTD and prior year YTD.

Click on any cost center to drill further into the Cost Center Service Spend report.

Spend by Service Delivery Model

This table breaks down service spend by delivery model and shows number of services per model and total spend per model.

Click on any delivery model to drill into Service Delivery Model Spend report.

Towers

The Tower chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by tower. Click on any tower to drill further into the spend for the tower.


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

Monthly Spend

Spend

Top 20 Services

Spend

Cost Pools

Spend

Top 20 Cost Centers

Spend

Spend by Service Delivery Model

Spend

Towers

Spend

Drill down reports