Monthly Spend (Technology)

The Monthly Spend report provides a detailed view of technology spend for a selected month.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Monthly Spend chart in the Technology Overview dashboard and is scoped to a selected month.

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.

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 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.

Top 20 Cost Centers

The Top 20 Cost Centers chart displays the top cost centers by year-to-date spend, comparing actual spend against budget and forecast.

Click any cost center to drill into related GL transaction.

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.

Monthly Spend Details

This chart shows your IT spend trend for month-on-month. Spend is shown as total spend, budget and variance.

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.