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Thu December 19, 2019 05:36 PM

Last Updated: August 15th, 2022

Applies to: Insights and Action Plans available in TBM Studio v12.7 and later

The following insights are currently available with the Insights and Action Plans feature. This page is a quick-reference index for all insights listed on the Insights Library page in Apptio's HelpCenter.

A

 
Anomalies in Labor Spend


Asset Classes with Idle Inventory
 

B

Business-Critical Applications without Development Costs
     
Business Units with Outlier Spend per Employee

C

Consultants with High Billing Rates

D

Departments with Spend Outliers
    
Development on Retired Applications

E

Excess Vendor Spend without Purchase Orders

Expensive Storage for Non-Critical Applications

F

Fixed Cost Spend Anomalies

H

Hidden Vendor Spend
   
High Application Support Costs

L

Large Variance in Contractor Rates

M

    
Migratable Non-Production Workloads
   
Misaligned Spend Ratios
   
Missing Production Environments
   

O

Organizational Spend Overage
   
Out-of-Service Hardware with Remaining Depreciation

P

Physical Servers with Non-Production Workloads

R

Redundant External Labor Providers
    
Redundant Vendor Contracts

S

Servers with Unknown Application Workloads
   
Spend on Closed Projects

U

Unknown Account Codes

Unknown Cost Centers

           





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Mon August 15, 2022 01:51 PM

Thank you to @Summer Gu and @Rohit Gautham J​​ for spotting the link issues in this article!

Looks like these documents were moved in HelpCenter, so I'll be updating the article links to match their new homes.

For now, the new Insights Library link is at https://help.apptio.com/en-us/insights/dashboards_and_reports/insights-library.htm.


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Thu July 28, 2022 10:57 AM

None of the links work here
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Wed July 27, 2022 04:55 PM

Hi,
None of the links work
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Tue June 01, 2021 01:38 PM

Article Changelog: June 1st 2021
  • All broken links have been repaired, and now redirect to their corresponding entries in the Insights Library article (HelpCenter)
  • Alphabetically sorted Insights for better clarity and separation between links
  • Duplicate entries removed (thank you Michael Worrow for highlighting this!)

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Tue March 02, 2021 07:31 PM

Some suggestions for this page:
1) Can the Insights be grouped into their Categories (Applications, Infrastructure, etc.)
2) Insights should be numbered
3) Double check there are no duplicate entries​​
4) It would be nice if the content for all the Insights was available in a spreadsheet format
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Tue June 16, 2020 02:46 AM

Hey Kathy Dyda - thanks for your question! The required periods of data in this document actually refers to the CT time periods functions that the insights are derived from, which is why you will see some that refer to year-to-date, annual, or previous period. These do relate to the evaluation period of the insight, but it is actually last month from today's (now) date. Since we're currently in June 2020, the insight will use data from May 2020 (calendar year) in Cost Transparency and use current month, previous period, year-to-date, etc. time based metrics and functions.


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Tue June 16, 2020 02:27 AM

Hi @Megan Saffo,

 

- Vendors

- Purchase orders

- Cost centre

- Servers (cpu & memory utilisation), 

- Storage utilisation

- Service consumption volumes for (PCs, Ipads, Mobile)

- Managed Print Services

- Application (analysis of support non-production environments)

- Insights & actions related to Cloudability

- Software licensing consumption (cores to infrastructure)

- Eliminating legacy products/services

 

Basically I would like to be able to filter any column in a master data table/model to be able to use the data in Apptio to tell a story that improves value for our stakeholders. We do this now manually by using the same data we use to feed Apptio but we put in a spreadsheet, build and excel chart and copy and paste it into Powerpoint.

 

Let me know if you would like to discuss sometime. My CSA is @Greg Winfield


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Tue June 16, 2020 02:10 AM

Hi @Ben Haines - absolutely, this is something we have been gathering more feedback on. Are there any use cases that come to mind specific to OOTB metrics, datasets/objects, or products from the Apptio product suite? If so, what types of configurations would you and your team find useful, specific to filtering, calculations, and thresholds?


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Fri June 12, 2020 04:17 PM

This document refers to "Current Period" in several places.  I was uncertain of how current period is defined in this instance (i.e. current period setting in CT?  the current calendar month (i.e. the month of today's date)).  Answer = the current calendar month (i.e. the month of today's date).

 

Hope this is helpful!


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Mon June 08, 2020 07:27 PM

It would be great if you could build your own insights items that are specific to your organisation. We have some significant areas of opportunity that I would like to track. We used to use Insights Tracker in the past but I am looking for a more automated data solution.


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