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ITAM › Cost Analysis shows two tabs — Development and Optimization — for a selectable period of 6, 12, or 24 months.

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Development

The period is summarized in four figures: Current Monthly Cost (against the previous month), Avg Monthly Cost (with minimum and maximum), Yearly Cost (Projected), and Biggest Change.
Color shows direction here, not a judgement: yellow means an increase, green a decrease.
The cost trend shows the monthly course as columns on the left, and the breakdown by category with a trend arrow per category on the right.
Both charts scale to their own largest value — the column height on the left and the bar length on the right are not comparable with each other.
Below that, Biggest Changes lists the entries with the strongest swing against the previous month.

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Optimization

The savings potential appears in four figures: Unused Budget (per month and year), Affected Costs, Unused Licenses, and Avg Utilization with a target value of over 90 %.
This tab calculates exclusively with units that are already assigned: a contract that is recorded but never assigned does not appear here — not even when it leaves budget unused. All four figures also stay empty as long as no assignable positions exist.
The Unused Costs table lists the entries with utilization and unused amount per month and year — the direct entry point to Assigning Costs to Assets.
Optimization Opportunities shows tiles with title, description, and action text provided by the system: Assigning Costs to Assets describes how you assign a position’s free units to assets.