Spend Profile

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This report showcases a cost profile of compute costs.

This report has the following elements:

(1) KPIs: The KPIs in this report are the same as in the Compute - Summary. See element 1 in the Compute Summary report.

(2) Filters: The filters in this report are the same as in the Compute - Summary. See element 2 in the Compute Summary report.

(3) Current Month Spend by Cost Pool: Use this chart to view the current server spend per cost pool (Outside Services, Hardware, etc.).

(4) 13 Month Trend of Servers: Use this chart to view your monthly server count, cost per server, and average annual spend on servers so you can watch for anomalies and trends that don't align with your business strategy.

(5) Server spend by: Use the by Profile, by OS, and by Environment pie charts to understand the balance of your server costs across various metrics.

Questions answered:

  • How is the server strategy evolving?
  • Where are we incurring Server costs?
  • Are there anomalies in our server spending?