Digital Fuel Reporting and Analysis

The Reporting and Analysis capabilities inside Digital Fuel's IT Financial Management (ITFM) platform provide everything needed for ongoing financial management of your IT services across multiple lines of business which may be geographically and/or legally distributed. These capabilities are delivered through a dynamic reporting engine that offers easy-to-use wizards and pre-built templates for fast, yet comprehensive analytics. Digital Fuel’s easy-to-navigate dashboards and reports with drill-down enable anytime, anywhere financial management visibility, perfect for the iPad.

Pre-built Reports

ITFM delivers dozens of pre-built reports and dashboards to answer the most common questions, and also provides drilldowns for deeper analysis. This approach saves you significant time and effort to get up and running as well as streamlines ongoing maintenance with multiple customers. Key pre-built reports include:

Entire IT Organization

• Top Budget Overruns
• IT Expenses by Account Type
• IT Cost Automatic Risk Observations
• Highest Fixed vs. Variable

IT Departments/Cost Centers

• Top Spending IT Departments
• IT Department Actual Cost vs. Forecast
• IT Department Expenses by Account Type
• IT Department Cost Allocations by Service

Business Units

• Top Spending Business Units
• BU IT Spend by Service, by Month
• BU IT Usage/Volume by Service
• BU IT Spend vs. Plan

Services

• Top Services by Delivery Cost
• Candidates for End of Life
• Candidates for Application Consolidation
• Candidates for Virtualization
• Candidates for Service Level Reduction
• Candidates for Support Reduction
• Service Cost Allocation by BU, by Region
• Service Usage/Volume by BU, by Region
• Service Usage/Volume by Month
• Service Unit Cost by Month
• Service Cost Drivers
• Service Unit Cost vs. Industry Average
• Service Actual Cost vs. Plan
• Service Unit Cost vs. Plan

Custom Reporting

IT Financial Management's report wizard enables users to quickly build custom reports. With a scalable calculation engine and the utilization of templates for all major IT services, you can easily generate multi-dimensional reports and drilldowns on all aspects of IT cost, quality, and value.

Sophisticated Drilldown Capabilities

The details really matter. And you need to respond quickly with access to higher-level insights into the cost, quality, and value information provided by ITFM. Easy, flexible, and intuitive drilldowns allow you to quickly investigate the information you see on the screen, draw conclusions, and take necessarily action — all while saving and documenting the investigation path to allow reuse and sharing with others.

Observation Engine

Most users will probably not have the time to go over all of the reports in the system every day to find anomalies and essential insights. However, the Observation Engine will bring to your attention the most important observations that you should investigate immediately.

Dimension Analysis and Reporting

Making business and operational decisions require analyzing IT costs, quality, and value from multiple perspectives that span across multiple geographies, organization units, service lines, products, cost type, general leger accounts, cost drivers, and more. For example, a business unit manager in Brazil wants to know how much she spends on email service for her organizational unit, while a global manager of data centers wants to know where the least expensive location is to host. Multi-dimension analysis and reporting allows all of your IT personnel and business stakeholdres to easily view and analyze cost, quality, and value information at any level of detail needed.

Role-based Dashboards

Different types of users will require different visibility into IT financial management information. ITFM provides role-based dashboards that immediately present the most relevant information — from alerts to summary reports to next steps.

Booklet Preparation Kit

The visibility delivered by ITFM usually needs to be across organizations. Yet the preparation of reports that can be used consistently by all stakeholders is a time-consuming process. ITFM automatically generates booklets that can be easily distributed to IT, business unit, and customer stakeholders.

Alerts

ITFM automatically notifies you when budget overruns are looming, specific cost metrics are above industry norm, service levels are about to be breached, and a wide variety of other role-based information.