Costing Standard report collections (v104 and later)

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  • Applies to: Costing Standard running on TBM Studio 12.3 and later with Template v104 and later.

This is the parent article for all of the Costing Standard report collections.

Navigation

  1. Log in to Apptio.
  2. In the navigation bar, click Cost Transparency.
  3. In the Home page, click one of the following report collections, or click a link, below, to jump directly to a specific report.

IT Financials

This collection provides OpEx and CapEx spend and variance reporting broken out by IT cost centers, cost center owners and accounts. Budget owners and decision-makers can use these reports to understand how spend is tracking to plan and where there are variances, then drill into detail to see the underlying financial transactions.

Labor

This collection brings HR and GL actuals together in single view, providing a baseline of an effective labor rate across similar functions, and aggregating labor types by cost center, role, and location to compare against plan:

  • Labor Review (v104) — High-level metrics related to the cost and headcount of internal labor and external contractors.
  • Labor Analysis (v104) — An aggregate, ad hoc view into all of the data related to your labor spending.
  • ITP-Labor Review (v104) — A view into the labor plan for the year to help you decide whether to delay or accelerate hiring based on the budget.

IT Resource Towers

This collection provides cost-per-unit so you can see total cost and efficiency trends according to the standard ATUM taxonomy, aligned with peer benchmarks. Intuitive analytics start with a summarized view that allow you to drill down to details when desired. The automated model shows how GL budget variance impacts towers/functions:
  • IT Towers

Vendors

This collection provides vendor costs aligned to IT towers, projects, and labor, aggregating vendor cost by vendor type and function:

  • Vendor Review
  • Vendor Portfolio
  • Vendor List

Infrastructure & Cloud

This collection features automated data feeds from public cloud service providers, aggregating and translating billing detail into standard IT categories. You can view public cloud TCO with fully burdened cost in the same report as public cloud (IaaS/SaaS) and on-premise assets.

As of Template v106, the new Hybrid Business Management reports are in a new Infrastructure Insights application end point that includes several new report collections: Compute, Data Center, Migration Recommendations, Private Cloud, Service Desk, Storage and Summary.

Applications

This collection provides the total cost to own (TCO) for applications, calculated consistently based on actual costs allocated through a best-practice standard cost model. The reports can start with basic cost allocation strategies that can be refined with additional infrastructure data over time. Application Portfolio reports provide summary views by application family, application type, and other categories. The detailed application reports provide actionable insights into all application costs, broken down by run and development costs, including the underlying infrastructure and Cloud costs.
  • Application Review report. An executive overview of the application spend for your top applications, application families, and the underlying infrastructure costs. A simplified snapshot of any application is available with a quick click in any bar chart.
  • Application Portfolio report. A look across your entire application suite so you can gain insights related to who's consuming application spend, the cost drivers, the cost composition of vendors, and projects related to your applications.
  • Application List report. An analytical report that provides quick access to the complete details about any of the applications in the organization.
  • Infrastructure Analysis by Application report. A detailed analysis of the percentage of application use per IT tower (Compute, Storage, and Service Desk).
  • New & Retired Apps report. A report of your application count, usage, and change YTD.

Services

This collection allows you to quantify the full costs of individual services and the entire Service Portfolio, showing costs in the context of services and business criticality that the business understands and can assign value to. The data is modeled on a standard services hierarchy to create a defensible TCO and accelerate defining services based on the standard TBM Taxonomy. Granular analytics provide insights to Service owners:
  • Services Review
  • Services Portfolio
  • Service List

Projects

This collection provides a single view of project OpEx and CapEx, broken down by labor, vendors, and expense area for each. You can view project investment and spend alongside status, priority, and budget. Project investment is linked to the applications and business units they support:

  • Projects Review
  • Projects Portfolio
  • Projects List
  • Projects at Risk

Business Units

This collection shows the total cost of applications and services by business unit, with assigned values. This can give business units visibility into consumption driven costs and discretionary investment, making allocations more defensible by distinguishing between direct (consumption) vs. indirect, and making costs understandable and actionable. Drill-downs into interconnected detail about applications, services, assets, and projects. Baselines let you see costs across business unit by comparing cost per FTE and department, providing the flexibility to match allocation methods to the data available for each application or service:
  • Business Unit Review
  • Business Unit Portfolio
  • Business Unit List

Benchmarking

This collection provides benchmark data on-demand, including monthly comparisons of annualized IT costs with benchmarks. Benchmark data uses the same standard taxonomy (ATUM) and methodology as cost analytics. The benchmark metrics are provided by trusted industry sources and Apptio's own customer data. Benchmark data is refreshed annually:
  • Industry & OpEx Benchmarks
  • Infrastructure Summary
  • Compute

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