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Mapptio Puzzle #2 

Mon August 05, 2019 08:52 AM

To conquer the second location, help @Demarcus Lloyd, @Andrew Mulvaney and @Michael Darragh�

Find the best way to create a Tower and Subtower for the allocation.

 

We are working to determine what towers cost should be mapped to from Time Tracking (we will be weighting the allocation based on number of hours). We worked with our teams internally to create 2 mapping tables, 1 based on Activities and 1 based on Cost Center. Based on the data provided, what is the best way to go about creating our Tower and Subtower for our allocation? 

 
Raw File 

Actual Hours 

Activity 

CostCenter 

EmployeeName 

LaborID 

Date 

ProjectID 

2 

Maintenance 

1123 

George Person 

1 

5/1/19 

5 

3 

Develop 

1124 

James Core 

2 

5/15/19 

3 

4 

General 

1123 

Justin Jackson 

3 

5/20/19 

4 

1.25 

Develop 

1123 

George Person 

1 

5/21/19 

12 

1.25 

Develop 

1123 

George Person 

1 

5/21/19 

12 

5 

Maintenance 

1123 

Justin Jackson 

3 

5/2/19 

6 

.4 

General 

1123 

George Person 

1 

5/21/19 

12 

 

Activity to Tower Mapping 

Activity 

Tower 

Subtower 

Maintenance 

Application 

Application Support & Operations 

Develop 

Application 

Application Development 

Strategy 

IT Management 

IT Management & Strategic Planning 

 

Cost Center to Tower Mapping 

Cost Center 

Tower 

Subtower 

% 

1123 

Application 

Application Support & Operations 

30 

1123 

Application 

Application Development 

25 

1123 

Compute 

Servers 

15 

1123 

Compute 

Unix 

10 

1123 

IT Management 

IT Management & Strategic Planning 

5 

1123 

Network 

LAN/WAN 

5 

1123 

Data Center 

Enterprise Data Center 

10 

1124 

IT Management 

IT Management & Strategic Planning 

25 

1124 

IT Management 

IT Vendor Management 

25 

1124 

Platform 

Database 

25 

1124 

Platform 

Middleware 

25 

 

Please use the attached Excel files as your data source.

 

 

This location closed August 30, 2019.




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Wed September 04, 2019 08:13 AM

Oh I didn't realize that the solution needed to include the actual formulas for transforming the data within TBM Studio...

My submission was only detailed in MS Excel where I laid out how I would configure the allocations.


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Tue September 03, 2019 11:42 AM

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an answer!  As always, there is more than one way to implement a solution within Apptio. As most of you have determined, we were looking for a combination of what tower to use based on the information you had available, prioritizing the Activity Mapping over the Cost Center Mapping. Once doing so, we would be faced with a normalization question to make sure the hours still align so that it can be used as a weighting. 

 

There are multiple ways of implementing this but below are the formulas we used: 

For the Raw File  

Activity Map=Lookup({Activity },ActivityMap,{Activity },Tower and Subtower) 

Activity Subtower=Split(Activity Map,2,"-") 

Activity Tower=Split(Activity Map,1,"-") 

Allocation %=trim(split(CC Map,3,"-")) 

CC Map=LookupEx({CostCenter },CCMap,{Cost Center },Tower Subtower) 

CC Subtower=Split(CC Map,2,"-") 

CC Tower=Split(CC Map,1,"-") 

Final Hours={Allocation %}*{Actual Hours }/100 

Final Subtower=If(Activity Tower="",CC Tower,Activity Tower) 

Final Tower=If(Activity Subtower="",CC Subtower,Activity Subtower) 

 

For the Activity Mapping File 

Tower Subtower ={Tower }&&{Subtower } 

 

For the Cost Center Mapping File 

Tower Subtower ={Tower }&&{Subtower }&&{% } 


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