TotalCost Spend - Invoice View

NOTICE

Customers that are using the out-of-the-box model and implementation (Cloudability TotalCost TBM Studio component) will get direct access to the reports. Each of these customers is then entitled via Apptio’s entitlement service.
We can not generate OOTB reports to the customers who have highly tailored models. To enable the special entitlement, contact Apptio Support.

Description

This Apptio BI report provides visibility of invoice cloud costs before being allocated to consumers. This report will showcase what spend is direct, shared, and how you are trending to your budget across all cloud providers.

Use cases

This report solves the following use cases:

Understand your cloud spend before it has been allocated across your organization to consuming entities.
Analyze spend by direct and shared costs.
Track budget variance of your cloud spend

Personas

This report is primarily aimed for use by the Cloud Center of Excellence and FinOps practitioners, as well as engineers who want full visibility into their organizations’ spend.

Questions answered

The report answers the following questions:

What are the top five services that consume the most spend?
How has my cost per vendor trended over the past year?
What are the top drivers of shared costs?