The Technology Overview dashboard provides a consolidated view of IT spend across technology towers, enabling you to track year-to-date spend, budget and forecast performance, and key cost drivers from a technology perspective.
Spend is presented across towers, months, cost pools, vendors, and cost centers, helping IT and finance teams understand where technology spend is occurring and how it is trending against budget or forecast.
Who should use this dashboard?
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IT management
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IT finance and TBM teams
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Technology and finance executives
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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What is the total IT spend year-to-date?
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How does the prior year spend compare to the year-to-date spend?
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Which technology towers are driving the most spend?
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Which vendors, cost pools, and cost centers contribute most to technology spend?
Key benefits
Using the Technology Overview dashboard, you can:
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Gain a consolidated view of IT spend across all technology towers in one place.
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Track budget and forecast performance to quickly identify over- or under-spend.
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Identify major cost drivers in technology tower across vendor, cost pool, and cost center.
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Monitor monthly technology spend trends to spot emerging patterns or anomalies early.
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Support informed decision-making by providing a clear financial baseline for deeper analysis across Technology reports.
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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 Tower chart shows year-to-date spend compared to budget and forecast, broken down by technology tower. This view helps identify which towers are over- or under-performing relative to plan.
Click any tower to drill into the Tower Spend report for detailed breakdown of spend.
Monthly Spend
The Monthly Spend chart shows monthly spend trends, including cumulative year-to-date spend compared to budget and forecast.
Click any month to drill into the Monthly Spend report for a detailed breakdown of spend.
Top 20 Vendors
The Top 20 Vendors chart displays the top 20 vendors by technology spend, highlighting how vendor spend compares against budget and forecast.
Click any vendor to drill into the Vendor Spend report for a detailed breakdown of spend.
Cost Pools
The Cost Pools chart provides a breakdown technology spend by cost pool, comparing actual spend with budget and forecast to show how costs are distributed across categories.
Click any cost pool to drill into the Cost Pool Spend report for a detailed breakdown of spend.
Top 20 Cost Centers
The Top 20 Cost Centers chart displays the top 20 cost centers by technology spend, comparing actual spend against budget and forecast.
Click any cost center to drill into the Cost Center Spend report for a detailed breakdown of spend.
Data sources
The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.
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Chart name |
Data cube |
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Towers |
TBM Towers |
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Monthly Spend |
TBM Towers |
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Top 20 Vendors |
TBM Towers |
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Cost Pools |
TBM Towers |
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Top 20 Cost Centers |
TBM Towers |
Drill down reports: