Products Reports
The Products collection provides a comprehensive, product-centric view of technology costs, enabling organizations to understand, govern, and optimize Product Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) across OpEx and CapEx. This collection brings together standardized product hierarchies, lifecycle context, and financial insights to help Product, Finance, and Leadership teams connect spend to business outcomes and make informed portfolio decisions.
The collection supports product-level transparency by tracing costs from foundational cost sources through to individual products, allowing users to analyze cost drivers, compare product performance, and assess investment efficiency across the portfolio. It also enables consistent governance by standardizing how products are defined, launched, retired, and reported across the organization.
- Reports available in this collection
- Products Review Report
- Products Portfolio Report
- Launched & Retired Report
- Product List Report
- Product Model Review Report
Products Review
The Products Review Report provides a comprehensive summary of product-related costs, highlighting trends, key metrics, and hierarchical cost breakdowns. The report is structured into multiple groups and tabs to enable detailed analysis of both operating (OpEx) and capital expenditures (CapEx) at various levels of aggregation.
This report is designed for use by the following roles:
- IT Finance
- Product Management Office (PMO)
- Executives and IT Leadership
Insights Provided:
- Identify top spend areas to determine where to focus your analysis
- Analyze total and unit costs to uncover inefficiencies
- View costs by business driver or product hierarchy to connect costs to business outcomes
- Align financial insights with business priorities
Products Portfolio
This report is designed for use by the following roles:
- IT Finance
- Product Management Office (PMO)
- Executives and IT Leadership
Insights Provided:
- Segment by product hierarchies to focus on a specific area
- Understand product OpEx and CapEx within the portfolio
- View portfolio cost drivers across business units, applications, towers, and projects for transparency
Launched & Retired
The Launched & Retired Report provides insights into product lifecycle spend by analyzing products based on their launch and retirement dates. The report focuses on monitoring current and year-to-date (YTD) spending for newly launched and retiring products, as well as identifying products approaching or past their planned retirement dates.
This report is designed for use by the following roles:
- Product Management Office (PMO)
Insights Provided:
- Access a consolidated snapshot of all products within your portfolio
- Centralize essential product attributes to simplify portfolio governance
- Quickly filter by Product or TBM taxonomy hierarchy to align with reporting structures
Product List
The Product List report provides a centralized view of all products defined within the Product TCO model, along with their key attributes, hierarchy placement, and financial context. This report serves as the foundation for product-level analysis by allowing users to validate product definitions, understand portfolio composition, and ensure consistent governance across product hierarchies before deeper cost and performance analysis.
This report is designed for use by the following roles:
- IT Finance
- PMO and PPM Leaders
- Product Managers and Portfolio Leaders
Insights Provided:
- View the complete list of products across the organization with associated attributes and classifications
- Validate product hierarchy alignment and ensure consistent product definitions across portfolios
- Identify active, new, aging, and retired products to support lifecycle management
- Understand product ownership and organizational alignment for accountability and governance
- Establish a clean foundation for downstream product cost, TCO, and performance reporting
- Introduced budget metrics in Product List report
Model Review Report
Model Reports in Apptio provide complete traceability of how cost data moves through the Apptio model covering Allocation Models, Tower/Sub-Tower structures, Cost Pools etc. They are used to validate, troubleshoot, and analyze the data transformations applied at each stage of the TBM taxonomy.
For the Products TCO implementation, a dedicated Model Report has been introduced to show the end-to-end flow of cost from the Cost Source to Business Unit, based on the Is Product = Yes condition defined in the All Business Services master dataset. The report also displays the specific products to which costs are allocated and provides the ability to view cost movement across layers and improves transparency into the origin and allocation of product-related costs.
