Solutions Review
This report reviews your top application and service spend (broadly categorized as Solutions) and allows organizations to visualize what apps and/or services (and service types) are consuming the most spend.
Use cases
This report solves the following use cases:
- Analyze vendor spend directly associated with a specific technology offering or higher-level category to identify overlapping and/or redundant suppliers.
- Analyze project or product investment spend directly associated with a specific technology offering or higher-level category.
- Analyze internal and external labor costs and activity type by role and by location for specific technology offerings.
- Understand the primary, direct cost drivers across the technology offering portfolio, broken out by labor, vendor products and services, and project or product investments.
- Allocate technology offering spend to the consuming organizations using prescriptive direct and indirect methods
Personas
- Application / Platform Owner
- IT Finance
Questions answered
The report answers the following questions:
- What apps and services make up the most spend in my organization?
- How much of my application / service spend is split across various categories and types?
Visualization
| Key element | Description |
|---|---|
| (1) Report collection |
This report collection provides the following solution details:
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| (2) Total Spend YTD by Category | Analyze the total spend chart and the trend report of the fiscal year by solution type or solution category. |
| (3) Costs by Type and Category | View the costs by solution type and solution category. Select the time period to customize the table with the metrics you want to see. |
| (4) KPIs | KPIs provide a high-level view of the total spending in the fiscal year for different solutions like business, workplace, delivery, infrastructure, platform, and shared& corporate. |
Solution Offerings
This report displays the following:
- Total spend YTD by Offerings, OnPrem/SaaS solutions, and Trends
- KPIs for OpEx YTD, CapEx YTD, Deprication YTD
- Offering details by offering id, unit costs and targets, etc.
Business and Corporate
This report displays the business and corporate spends for the following:
- Yearly trend charts and summary of On Prem and Public Cloud deployments
- KPIs for cloud business/on prem/cloud corporate/on prem corporate solutions
Infra and Cloud
This report displays the infra and cloud spends for the following:
- Yearly trend charts and summary of On Prem and Public Cloud deployments
- KPIs for public cloud/on prem Infrastructure and Platforms
Cloud Summary
This report displays the cloud summary spends for the following:
- Cloud spend and trend charts
- KPIs for OpEx YTD spend for IaaS & PaaS. cloud compute/storage/network
- Cost by Category details
