Use this article to understand how Yarken uses TBM structures to explain technology spend, cost flow, and business accountability.
See technology spend through a business lens
Technology Business Management and Cost Transparency help teams understand how IT spend flows through the organization.
Yarken uses TBM structures such as cost pools, towers, solutions, and consumers to translate financial transactions into views that Finance, IT, FinOps, and business leaders can use.
This gives teams a shared way to understand what technology costs, where the money is going, which services are using spend, and how that spend connects to business value.
Cost Transparency
Cost Transparency gives teams a high-level view of technology spend using the TBM taxonomy.
Users can review year-to-date spend across cost pools, towers, solutions, and consumers. This helps teams move from raw GL and cost center data into business-meaningful views of IT spend.
Cost Transparency also supports drilldown reporting, so users can move from summary-level views into more detailed analysis when needed.
Cost Pools
Cost Pools and Sub Cost Pools represent the finance lens of IT spend.
They categorize spend in a way that supports reporting, allocation, and financial accountability.
Towers
Towers and Sub Towers represent the technology view of spend.
Once Cost Pool allocation is complete, cost pool spend becomes available for tower allocation. Towers help teams understand spend by technology function, including infrastructure, applications, security, end user services, and other technology domains.
Solutions and Consumers
Solutions connect technology spend to applications, products, services, and solution offerings.
Consumers connect cost to the business units or groups using those services.
Together, they help teams understand what technology costs, who uses it, and where accountability sits.
Connected model
Cost Transparency in Yarken is connected to the broader operating model.
The same TBM structure supports analytics, planning, cloud spend, showback, chargeback, business cases, and Ask Yarken.
This gives Finance, IT, FinOps, and business stakeholders one shared model for understanding technology spend.
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