Explore how Yarken maps to TBM and FinOps frameworks
Transparency
Ingest, normalize, and allocate your data so it’s ready to generate insights.
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Data Ingestion
Ingest cloud cost and usage data from AWS, Azure, and GCP in FOCUS format, with near real-time (hourly or daily) updates
Ingest costs and usage data across your entire IT ecosystem, including labor, license usage, CMDB, and HR/finance systems.
Ingest costs and usage data across your entire IT ecosystem, including labor, license usage, CMDB, and HR/finance systems.
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Normalisation
Normalize and map data into TBM-aligned cost model for consistent reporting
Normalize cloud tags to gain standardized reporting across multicloud.
Normalize cloud tags to gain standardized reporting across multicloud.
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Allocation
Allocate spend sources to applications, products, and services
Allocate costs to consumers and business units based on real usage metrics
Map data to the TBM model with flexibility to support direct vs. shared and consumptive vs. assumptive models.
Allocate costs to consumers and business units based on real usage metrics
Map data to the TBM model with flexibility to support direct vs. shared and consumptive vs. assumptive models.
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Enrichment
Enrich datasets with tags, business metadata, and organizational context
Use rules and lookups to enhance data during ingestion models.
Use rules and lookups to enhance data during ingestion models.
Alignment
Align Spend with Budgets and Forecasts throughout the year.
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Budgeting
Support both top-down and bottom-up budgeting through Yarken’s budget approval workflow
Model budgets consistently using the TBM taxonomy
Model budgets consistently using the TBM taxonomy
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Forecasting
Cloud forecasts can be based on historical run rates with the ability to apply manual adjustments to incorporate growth, transformation initiatives, and planned changes.
Improve collaboration and decrease Cloud forecast variance through shared visibility and commentary across teams
Continuously update forecasts across the TBM taxonomy throughout the year, and report on the various models.
Improve collaboration and decrease Cloud forecast variance through shared visibility and commentary across teams
Continuously update forecasts across the TBM taxonomy throughout the year, and report on the various models.
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Planning & Estimation
Build workload-level business cases by ingesting cloud-pricing calculator estimates
Improve cloud deployment cost estimates by incorporating non-cloud supporting costs like labor, licensing, and overhead.
Plan business objectives and expected outcomes up front and track throughout your deployment cycle.
Improve cloud deployment cost estimates by incorporating non-cloud supporting costs like labor, licensing, and overhead.
Plan business objectives and expected outcomes up front and track throughout your deployment cycle.
Insights
Identify spend changes and variances early, with insights to take proactive action
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Reporting & Analytics
The Ask Yarken AI assistant surfaces insights and highlights optimization opportunities.
Create custom dashboards that align with your internal reporting needs. Set custom landing pages per user
Pre-built reports aligned to common FinOps and TBM analytics areas with the ability to drill down to resource and transaction-level detail for root cause analysis
Create custom dashboards that align with your internal reporting needs. Set custom landing pages per user
Pre-built reports aligned to common FinOps and TBM analytics areas with the ability to drill down to resource and transaction-level detail for root cause analysis
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Anomaly Detection
Ask Yarken to find anomalies using baseline and trend deviation analysis.
Deliver alerts to Slack and Microsoft Teams for threshold breaches in spend across vendors, applications, cost pools, towers, and cloud.
Near real-time (hourly) visibility of cloud spend and usage to reduce financial risk and enable proactive decision-making.
Deliver alerts to Slack and Microsoft Teams for threshold breaches in spend across vendors, applications, cost pools, towers, and cloud.
Near real-time (hourly) visibility of cloud spend and usage to reduce financial risk and enable proactive decision-making.
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Variance Reporting
Provide variance analysis and early indicators of budget risk through the use of the Ask Yarken AI agent.
Track actuals vs budget continuously across various reporting levels (financial, TBM, and application level)
Track actuals vs budget continuously across various reporting levels (financial, TBM, and application level)
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AI Insights
Ask Yarken interprets financial and operational signals and identifies material drivers behind cost movement
Evaluate downstream impacts before recommending action.
Prepares structured, policy-aligned execution paths
Evaluate downstream impacts before recommending action.
Prepares structured, policy-aligned execution paths
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Sustainability
Powered by GreenPixie, Yarken provides real-time insights into carbon emissions and energy usage—helping organizations reduce environmental impact and make more sustainable technology decisions.
Optimization
Optimize for cost, usage and efficient license utilization
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Unit Economics
Calculate unit costs for Solution offerings based on real usage metrics
Track unit cost metrics over time
Provide visibility into marginal cost and optimization opportunities
Track unit cost metrics over time
Provide visibility into marginal cost and optimization opportunities
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Usage Optimization
Optimization recommendations ingested from AWS and Azure to help reduce waste
Identify unused, underutilized, or over-provisioned SaaS licenses relative to actual consumption
Identify unused, underutilized, or over-provisioned SaaS licenses relative to actual consumption
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Usage Metrics
Usage metrics allocate costs of service offerings to consumers more accurately.
Manage license usage to reduce underutilized licenses
Track business case usage to actuals throughout the lifecycle
Manage license usage to reduce underutilized licenses
Track business case usage to actuals throughout the lifecycle
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Rate Optimization
Analyze daily and hourly cloud usage to identify opportunities for commitment discounts, reserved instances and savings plans
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Licensing & SaaS
Consolidate license, contract, and usage data across SaaS products
Identify unused, underutilized, or misallocated licenses
Support right-sizing, renewal planning, and vendor optimization
Connect license count and cost to actual usage
Identify unused, underutilized, or misallocated licenses
Support right-sizing, renewal planning, and vendor optimization
Connect license count and cost to actual usage
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Architecting & Workload Placement
Compare architectural and deployment options using usage assumptions and pricing calculator cost estimates to select the most effective design
Plan for value outcomes during the workload build phase.
Plan for value outcomes during the workload build phase.
Strategy
Connect technology investments to value delivery and organizational objectives
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Service Costing
Gain an understanding of how internal applications and services contribute to your external service catalog.
Ensure your service catalog reflects fully loaded costs across infrastructure, platforms, and support.
Ensure your service catalog reflects fully loaded costs across infrastructure, platforms, and support.
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Application TCO
Calculate the fully loaded costs of application ownership
Overlay license fees with labour support costs, share of infrastructure, and overheads
Overlay license fees with labour support costs, share of infrastructure, and overheads
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Showback
Create showback reporting to show the true cost of Cloud and IT operations to consuming business units.
Back every Business Unit cost with usage-based allocation logic
Back every Business Unit cost with usage-based allocation logic
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Invoicing & Chargeback
Generate chargeback reports ready to be ingested into your ERP system
Support Financial Month End by creating cloud accrual journals based on granular usage not found in vendor invoices.
Support Financial Month End by creating cloud accrual journals based on granular usage not found in vendor invoices.
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Value Modeling
Link technology spend to non-cost metrics like business outcomes and KPIs
Understand how changes spend is linked to changes in value
Understand how changes spend is linked to changes in value
Governance
Governed, auditable, and policy-driven cost management
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Governance, Policy & Risk
Automate standard operating procedures with Ask Yarken agentic AI to execute repeatable workflows
End-to-end traceability and control access across ITFM
End-to-end traceability and control access across ITFM
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FinOps Assessment
Continuously monitor your FinOps maturity through data-driven signals like % of spend tagged/allocated and coverage of reserved instances, and get recommendations
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Executive Strategy Alignment
Use TBM to communicate how value and business strategy are enabled through technology spend. Reprioritize and reinvest based on value.
FinOps
Our commitment to SOC 2 compliance ensures that our SaaS Cost Transparency platform meets the highest standards of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
TBM
Technology Business Management (TBM) is a technology investment discipline that aligns organizations and their technology spend to business strategy and value.
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Integrations
Direct integration to AWS & Azure. Integrate with your preferred Cloud provider to ingest all cost and usage data in the cloud-native format.
Security
Our commitment to SOC 2 compliance ensures that our SaaS Cost Transparency platform meets the highest standards of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.