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Cost Center Spend (Technology)

The Cost Center Spend report provides a detailed view of technology spend for a selected cost center.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Top 20 Cost Centers chart in the Technology Overview dashboard and is scoped to a selected cost center.

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


KPIs

Spend (YTD)

Total year-to-date technology spend.

Budget (YTD)

Budget allocated for technology spend year to date.

Variance (YTD)

Difference between actual spend and budget year to date.

Annual Budget

Total technology budget for the year.

Annual Forecast

Projected full-year technology spend.


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 monthly spend trends, comparing actual technology spend against budget and forecast, along with cumulative year-to-date values.

Click any month to drill into the related GL transactions.

Vendors

The Vendors chart shows spend by vendor for the filtered criteria, comparing year-to-date spend against budget and forecast. This view highlights vendors contributing most to tower spend.

Click any vendor to drill into related GL transaction.

Cost Pools

This chart shows year-to-date spend versus budget and forecast, broken down by cost pool. This view helps identify which cost pools are driving spend within the filtered criteria.

Click any cost pool to drill into related GL transaction.

Towers

The Towers chart shows spend by towers for the filtered criteria, comparing year-to-date spend against budget and forecast.

Click any tower to drill into related GL transaction.

Cost Center Spend Details

This chart shows the cost center spend trend for month-on-month. Spend is shown as total spend and budget for each month for the filtered cost center.

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.

Chart name

Data cube

Monthly Spend

Spend

Vendors

Spend

Cost Pools

Spend

Towers

Spend

Cost Center Spend Details

Spend

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