Hello All,

My team is Adopting the ATUM Taxonomy for IT Resource Tower. There are team that specifically work on Compute/Storage, but their time aren't necesarily broken out by ITRST (e.g. Tier 1, Tier 2, Windows, Linux) What's the best practice for allocating labor for those teams to Tower/Sub-Towers?

Hi Richard,

It is great that your organization is adopting ATUM. If the teams aren't broken at sub-tower level, one way could be to look at the actual count of assets for that sub-tower and use that as the guiding principle to allocate costs, for example, if there are more Linux servers than Windows, then spread costs for Compute in that ratio.

Kevin,

We’re currently at Timekeeping by Role. We have two groups – Server Engineering and Storage Engineering. However, neither of those teams track by Sub-Towers. For my fixed assets I was able to build a % breakout by # of devices in each Sub-Tower Category, which roll into an intermediate object. How can I do a % distribution form Timetracking to ITRST without an intermediate object?

Richard Coronado

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Kevin,

Would you recommend these three levels of allocation for all IT resource towers or just servers/storage?

@Richard Coronado you should be able to use the LookupEx function in your time tracking transform file to pull in the % breakdown for each subcategory from the same file you are using for Fixed Asset breakouts.