Costing Standard

Getting started

• What you can do with Costing Standard
• How to access Costing Standard
• Find your way around Costing Standard

What's new in Costing Standard

• Recent releases
• Older releases
  • 2024
  • 2023

Configuration

• Introduction to the Costing Standard application
  • About the Costing Standard application
  • About the Costing Standard components
  • About customizations to your project
  • Configure a project in a language other than English
• Upgrade Costing Standard
  • About upgrading Costing Standard
  • Upgrade to Apptio Value Explorer 12.7 (v107)
  • Update visibility of Infrastructure reports after v106 upgrade
  • Upgrade Costing Standard from template v104+ to the latest version
  • Upgrade Costing Standard from template v103 to the latest version
    • Step 1: Create a branch
    • Step 2: Open the new branch
    • Step 3: Change component version
    • Step 4: Review components to upgrade
    • Step 5: Upgrade individual components and check in the changes
    • Step 6: Upgrade all other components in the Upgrade branch
    • Step 7: Review upgraded application in the upgrade branch
    • Step 8: Compare v103 reports to reports on the new template version
    • Step 9: Merge changes into the main project (Trunk)
    • Step 10: Merge all other components
    • Step 11: Validate v104 reports in the main project (Trunk)
    • Step 12: Upgrade the Production environment
    • Step 13: Close the merge trunk
• Costing Standard Foundation Module configuration
  • About the Costing Standard Foundation Module configuration
  • Summary of data sources needed for Costing Standard Foundation
  • Create the Costing Standard project
  • Configure time for the project
  • General configuration procedures
    • Load data into the Costing Standard application
    • Map data to a master data table
    • Validate model allocations
  • Upload and map the Costing Standard Foundation data
    • Populate the Cost Source Master Data table
    • Populate the Cost Source to IT Resource Master Data table
    • Upload the Data Quality Dimensions data
  • CTF - Projects component: install and configure
  • CTF Vendors component: install and configure
  • CTF - Time Tracking component: install and configure
  • CTF - Labor Units component: install and configure
  • CTF - IT Towers component: install and configure
  • CTF - CapEx component: install and configure
  • CTF - Labor component: install and configure
  • CTF - Fixed Asset component: install and configure
  • CTF - Cost Source component: install and configure
  • Install the ITPF Integration components
• Applications and Services Module configuration
  • About the Applications and Services Module configuration
  • CT Apps - Servers component
  • CT Apps - Data Centers component
  • CT Apps - Storage component
  • CT Apps - Service Desk component
  • CT Apps - Applications component
  • CT Apps - Services component
  • CT Apps - Communications component
  • CT Apps - End User Devices component
  • CT Apps - Mainframes component
  • CT Apps - Network Devices component
• Hybrid IT TCO Impact Module configuration
• AI TCO & Usage Solution
• AI TCO & Usage Configuration Guide
• Business Units Module configuration
  • Install and configure the CT - Business Units component
  • Direct vs indirect allocations
• Troubleshooting
  • How To: Source Data Management Configuration and Project Errors Table

Cloud Services in Costing Standard

• Cloud Services configuration in Costing Standard
  • Costing Standard Cloud Services Configuration Guide (R11.8.1 on Studio v12)
  • About Cloud Services Configuration in Costing Standard
  • Configuring Cloud for Costing Standard 12.6
  • Configuring Cloud for Costing Standard 12.1 through 12.5x
  • Adding a formula step to 12.6 cloud tables
  • Summary of Cloud Configuration Steps
  • Cloud mapping
  • Cloud concepts
  • Apptio recommended tagging approach for Public Cloud IaaS/PaaS services
  • Identify shared services
  • Cloud configuration and ATUM 2.0
  • Enter estimated non-provider costs
  • Configure multi-currency for Cloud
  • Cloud Compute Attributes mapping
  • Optional configuration
• AWS in Costing Standard
  • Amazon Web Services configuration
  • Complete AWS Configuration Dependencies
  • Apptio - AWS IAM Policy
  • AWS Deprecation of Billing Formats
  • AWS Services Mapping
  • Map AWS Marketplace to ATUM
  • Map AWS tags to Apptio Schema
  • AWS Reserved Instances- an Apptio view
    • Reserved Instance Costs - Allocations within Apptio
• Azure in Costing Standard
  • Microsoft Azure and other providers configuration
  • Azure Reserved Instances — Ingestion and Cost Allocations
  • Azure Services Mapping
  • Tag values in Azure to Apptio Schema
• Google Cloud Platform Services in Costing Standard
  • Google Cloud Platform Services Mapping
• Cloud Mapping Files

Reports

• Hybrid IT Collection
  • Hybrid IT TCO Impact – Summary
  • Hybrid IT TCO Impact – Insights
  • Hybrid IT TCO Impact - Analysis
  • Hybrid IT TCO Impact - Admin
• AI Report Collection
  • AI TCO & Usage - Summary
  • AI TCO & Usage - AI Models
  • AI TCO & Usage - AI Solutions
  • AI TCO & Usage - Business Units
  • AI TCO & Usage - Model Views
• IT Financials Report Collection
  • Financial Review
  • Financial Review - Capex
  • Financial Analysis
  • Cost Pool Analysis
• Public Cloud TCO Report Collection
  • Public Cloud TCO Configuration
  • Public Cloud TCO Overview Report
  • Public Cloud Model View Overview
• IT Towers Report Collection
  • IT Towers Review
  • IT Towers Performance
  • IT Towers Composition
  • IT Towers Planning
• Labor Report Collection
  • Labor Review
  • Labor Analysis
  • ITP – Labor Review
• Fixed Assets Report Collection
  • Fixed Assets
  • ITP – Asset Review
• Vendors Report Collection
  • Vendor Review
  • Vendor Portfolio
  • Vendor List
  • Vendor Spend by Project
  • ITP – Vendor Review
• Projects Report Collection
  • Projects Review
  • Project Portfolio
  • Projects List
  • Projects at Risk
• Storage Report Collection
  • Storage Summary
  • Spend Profile
  • Operational Summary
  • Utilization Summary
  • Device Details
  • Storage LUN Details
  • Financial View
  • By Applications
• Data Center Report Collection
  • Summary
  • Operational Summary
  • Financial View
• Compute Report Collection
  • Compute Summary
  • Spend Profile
  • Operational Summary
• Applications Report Collection
  • Application Review
  • Application Portfolio
  • Application List
  • Infrastructure Analysis by Application
  • New & Retired Apps
• Services Report Collection
  • Services Review
  • Services Portfolio
  • Service List
• Business Units Report Collection
  • Business Unit Review
  • Business Unit Portfolio
  • Business Unit List
  • Impact of Retiring Applications
• Infra & Cloud Report Collection
  • Summary
• Previous Version Layouts
  • Reports Overview
    • Costing Standard report collections (v103)
    • Costing Standard report collections (v104 and later)
    • Compare v.104 and v.103 Cost Transparency reports
    • Mapping Costing Standard reports from Template v103 to v104
  • Key Cost Source Reports
  • Key IT Tower Reports
  • Key Labor Reports
  • Project Financial Details dialog
  • Reporting - AHQ Configuration and Common Error Messages
  • IT Finance reports (v103)
    • About the IT Finance reports (v103)
    • IT Finance Summary report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Summary - Cost Pool - Account report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Summary - Cost Pool - Transaction Details report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Outliers report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Account Variance report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Account Variance - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Account Variance - Transaction Details report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Cost Pools report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Labor report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Variance report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Budget Variance - 13-month Trend report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Staffing and Rate report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Staffing Rate - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Composition report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Composition - Transaction report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Composition - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Labor Details - Fixed/Variable Analysis report (v103)
      • IT Management - Labor Details - Consumption - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Management - Labor Details - Consumption report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Fixed Assets - Summary report (v103)
    • IT Finance - Vendors - Spend report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Vendors - By Vendor Type report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Vendors - By Cost Center report (v103)
      • IT Finance - Vendors - By Project (v103)
      • IT Finance - Vendors - By IT Tower report (OpEx Only) (v103)
    • IT Finance - Cloud Provider Bill report
  • IT Management reports (v103)
    • About the IT Management reports (v103)
    • IT Management - Summary report (v103)
    • IT Management - Financials report (v103)
      • IT Management - Financials - IT Owner Details (v103)
      • IT Management - Financials - By Account report (v103)
      • IT Management - Financials - By Cost Pool report (v103)
    • IT Management - Projects report (v103)
    • IT Management - IT Towers report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Tower Details - Current FY Plan Variance report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Current FY Plan Variance - Tx report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Current FY Plan Variance - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Quantity & Unit Cost report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Quantity & Unit Cost - Trend report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Cost Center Composition report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Cost Pool Composition report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Towers Details - Fixed/Variable Analysis report (v103)
      • IT Management - IT Tower Details - Consumption by Application report (v103)
    • IT Management - Public Cloud report
    • IT Management - Applications reports
      • IT Management - Applications - By Total Application Spend report
      • IT Management - Applications - By Top Spend report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - By Category report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - By IT Tower report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - Infrastructure Details report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - By Vendor report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - By Projects report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - New and Retired report (v103)
      • IT Management - Applications - Application Details report (v103)
    • IT Management - Services reports (v103)
    • IT Management Business Units reports (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Top Spend report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Business Unit Type Report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Business Unit Report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Department report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Projects Report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - By Apps to Retire report (v103)
      • IT Management - Business Units - Direct/Indirect Report (v103)
  • Data Quality reports
    • About the Data Quality reports
    • Data Quality report collection
    • Data Dimensions report collection
    • Data Quality - Data Dimensions
    • Data Quality - Financials report
    • Data Quality - Summary report
  • IT Infrastructure and Operations reports
    • About the IT Infrastructure and Operations reports
    • IT Operations - Summary report
    • IT Operations - Servers Efficiency Target report
    • IT Operations - Storage Analysis report
    • IT Operations - Storage Efficiency Target report
    • IT Operations - Data Centers Analysis report
    • IT Operations - Service Desk Analysis report
  • Business Units reports (v104)
    • Business Units report collection
    • Business Unit Details report
  • Benchmarking reports
    • Benchmarking report collection
    • Benchmarking Summary reports
  • Cloud reports
    • Cloud Daily/Hourly Reports - Extending or Changing (12.6 and later)
    • Custom Azure Daily Report
    • Report Overview - Daily Transparency
    • Report overview - Reserved Instances
    • Report Overview - Potential Savings
    • Report overview - Monthly TCO reports (v12.4.1+ with Template v104+)
    • Cloud Daily/Hourly Reports - Extending or Changing (12.5 and earlier)
    • Report overview - Reconcile
    • Report overview - Monthly TCO reports (v12.3.3)
    • Report overview - Reserved Instances
    • Report overview - Tagging quality
  • Hybrid Business Management reports
    • Infrastructure and Cloud
    • Compute report collection - HBM
    • Migration Recommendations report collection - HBM
    • Private Cloud VMWare report - HBM
    • Storage report collection - HBM
    • Summary report collection - HBM
  • Projects report collection
    • Financial Review (OpEx) report (v107)
    • Financial Review - CapEx report (v107)
  • Miscellaneous reports
    • Fixed/variable reporting and allocations
    • App Dev Reporting and Allocations
    • Labor Review - Labor Details - Cost Composition Report
    • Overview of AWS billing reports

User Help

• Costing Standard home page
• View and Edit Your User Properties
• Apptio Function Quick Reference
• Costing Standard Overview Datasheet
• Cloud Use Cases in Costing Standard
• Metafields in Costing Standard
• Load Your Data
• How To: Check if a Report is Stock or Customized
• CT Reporting By Persona
• Compact Slicers and Filtering on the slicer
• Create a dynamic title for a monthly Forecast report
• Dynamic Text
• Workshops
  • Applications Workshop
  • Business Services Workshop
  • Business Units Workshop
  • Communication Workshop
  • Cost Source Workshop
  • End User Devices Workshop
  • Fixed Assets Workshop
  • Labor Workshop
  • Network Workshop
  • Servers Workshop
  • Storage Workshop
  • Time Tracking Workshop
  • Vendors Workshop
• Troubleshooting
  • Browser Support for the Apptio Costing Standard application
• IT Service Management: Bridging the Gap between ITIL and Business Value with TBM

Data reference

• Costing Standard data available in Apptio BI

Technology Integrations

• IBM Turbonomic (BETA)
  • Overview
  • Prerequisites
  • Installing Components
  • Architecture
  • Data Payload
  • Configurations
  • Reporting

Workbench

• Introduction
• Labor Mapping