About the Applications and Services Module configuration

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The Applications and Services Module is used to allocate the IT Resource Towers costs into the associated infrastructure and ultimately into the Applications and Services table. The resulting reports can be used to gain insights into the Application and Service Portfolio spend. The Applications and Services Module is a prerequisite for the Business Units module. To configure the Applications and Services Module, install the CT Apps components.

Applies to: Costing Standard on TBM Studio 12.0 and later

Customized

Unlike the Costing Standard Foundation module, the Applications and Services module often is customized to match the data available in an organization. The descriptions of the Applications and Services module data and configuration should be taken as one way to configure the components. How you end up configuring the components may be different.

Configuration Requirements for the Applications and Services Module

The Costing Standard Foundation (CTF) Module is a prerequisite for the Applications and Services Module. Once the CTF Module installation is complete and validated, you can choose to get started with the Applications and Services Module by simply allocating portions of the IT Resource Tower spend directly to the Applications Master Data table based on basic rules. However, as you obtain more infrastructure data and relationships are available to defensively allocate spend from infrastructure into the supporting applications, you likely will choose to begin bringing the data into the application and slowly providing a more defensible cost model.

Components in the module

The Applications and Services components are not installed automatically when you create a Costing Standard project. You must install each component separately. You can install any combination of the components. They are not depended on each other.

The CT Applications and Services Module includes the following components:

  • CT Apps - Applications
  • CT Apps - Communication
  • CT Apps - Date Centers
  • CT Apps - End User Devices
  • CT Apps - Mainframes
  • CT Apps - Network
  • CT Apps - Servers
  • CT Apps - Services component
  • CT Apps - Service Desk component
  • CT Apps - Storage component
If you modified this non-master file: You must append the data to this master file:
IT Resource Tower List IT Resource Tower Master Data
Servers Utilization Targets Servers Master Data
Storage Utilization Targets Storage Master Data
Storage Devises Utilization Targets Storage Devices Master Data

Install the components

You install the Applications and Services Module components following the same steps used for installing the CTF Module components. The order in which you install the components does not matter.

  1. Click the Project tab.
  2. Click Components in the Ribbon.
  3. Click one of the CT components.
  4. Click Install.
  5. Click View All Components.
  6. Repeat Steps 4-6 for the remaining CT components.