TBM Solutions

Solutions represent what technology delivers to the organization.

Use Solutions to connect spend to applications, services, products, and solution offerings. This helps Finance, IT, FinOps, and business stakeholders understand the cost of delivered technology capabilities, not only the cost of the resources used to provide them.

Solutions turn TBM reporting into a business-facing view of technology value.

How Solutions fit the TBM model

Solutions sit after Cost Pools and Towers in the TBM cost flow.

They answer the question: What technology capability, application, service, or product does this spend support?

The typical flow is:

1. Financial data is mapped into Cost Pools and Sub Cost Pools

2. Cost Pool spend is allocated into Towers and Sub Towers

3. Tower spend is connected to Solutions

4. Solution spend can be allocated to Consumers where the model supports it

5. The results become available in Cost Transparency, Analytics, showback, chargeback, and planning workflows

Solution hierarchy

This hierarchy gives teams the flexibility to align the standard TBM structure with the organization's own service and operating model.

Taxonomy flexibility

Solution labels and category structures can vary by organization. Some teams group technology delivery by applications and services. Others use product-oriented or solution-offering structures.

Yarken supports these approaches through configurable taxonomy and master data. The selected structure determines how solution spend appears in Cost Transparency, Analytics, showback, chargeback, planning, and service review workflows.

Solution classes

Use the class that best describes how the technology capability is delivered and consumed.

Common Solution areas

Solution Offerings

Solution Offerings are the organization-specific services, products, or applications configured in Yarken.

They connect standard TBM solution structures to the way your organization delivers and reports technology.

Solution Offerings can support service ownership, product ownership, application reporting, platform reporting, consumer-level allocation, showback, chargeback, dashboards, and analytics.

Relationship with Cost Pools and Towers

Cost Pools explain what type of spend exists.

Towers explain which technology function the spend supports.

Solutions explain what technology capability is delivered.

For example:

• Compute, storage, network, and platform spend may support an infrastructure or platform solution

• Application Tower spend may support a business application or shared platform solution

• End User Tower spend may support workplace, collaboration, or client computing solutions

• Security and compliance spend may support identity, vulnerability, risk, or resilience services

• Staffing spend may support delivery, application, platform, security, IT management, or business-facing solutions depending on where the work is performed

Relationship with Consumers

Solutions are the bridge between technology delivery and consumption.

Once solution spend is defined, it can be allocated to Consumers where the model supports consumer-level reporting.

This supports showback, chargeback, consumer reporting, cost accountability, service consumption analysis, planning, and forecasting.

Relationship with Cost Transparency and Analytics

Solutions appear in Cost Transparency dashboards, drilldown reports, and Analytics.

Use Solution reporting to review spend by application, service, product, or solution offering, compare solution spend across periods, investigate cost drivers, and prepare views for showback, chargeback, and planning.

Use Cost Explorer when you need to validate how spend reaches a Solution from upstream layers.

Next step

TBM Consumers

Related content

• Technology Business Management

• TBM Cost Pools

• TBM Towers

• TBM Taxonomy

• Solution Spend

• Cost Explorer

• Cost Transparency Overview