♦ Applies to: Apptio Cost Transparency or Apptio Cloud Cost Management on TBM Studio v12.3.3 or later
The manually entered, estimated non-provider costs are primarily for new Cloud Cost Management-only customers who have not lit up actuals with their GL in Cost Transparency. For anyone who has Cost Transparency, the better option is to drive non-provider costs from the actuals in the Cost Transparency Cost model. There is a link between the two models (CT Cost model and CCM Cloud Invoice model) to allow you to do this via the IT Resource Towers object. Any costs in the Cost model that have "Is Cloud" set to "Yes" on the ITRT object and that are not driven from the Cloud Service Provider object will flow into the Cloud Invoice model and be the source of non-provider costs.
To enter estimated non-provider costs:
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We were tasked with implementing Row-Level Security in our Public Cloud project. The goal was to prevent Population A from seeing Population B's usage/spend data while giving more senior authorized colleagues access to everything.
A couple things to bear in mind...
So here we are.
Since the "Cloud Invoice" report was a reflection of the unmodeled "AWS Cost Allocation Bill Master Data" table we first needed to model the table (or - in hindsight - we could have made another table based on it and model that one...which we may still do). Next, we applied the Row-Level Security step to it. We added a Row-Level Security step to other modeled objects, too, btw.
Then, we retired the OOB version of the "Cloud Invoice" report in favor of a new custom version based on the now modeled "AWS Cost Allocation Bill Master Data" table.
During build-out of the new "Cloud Invoice" report we created a new group within the "Public Cloud" perspective to hold a collection of new perspective fields based on the new modeled table.
We update our Cloud Provider data Sunday mornings and push out Production promos Sunday night, so our clients have fresh data to review Monday morning.
Hi Randy, could you share configuration steps for Invoice model?
Hi Juliet...
The manually entered, estimated non-provider costs are primarily for new Cloud Cost Management-only customers that have not lit up actuals with their GL in Cost Transparency. For anyone who has Cost Transparency, a better option (which you point out in your question) is to drive non-provider costs from the actuals in the Cost Transparency Cost model. There is a link between the two models (CT Cost model and CCM Cloud Invoice model) to allow you to do this via the IT Resource Towers object. Any costs in the Cost model that have Is Cloud set to Yes on the ITRT object and that are not driven from the Cloud Service Provider object will flow into the Cloud Invoice model and be the source of Non-Provider Costs.
Thank you for the feedback on this and we will add some clarity to this Community post.
Why manually generate a list of costs instead of making allocations from cost source or other modeled objects?