Introduction

To accurately control and optimize your costs, you need a clear understanding of what parts of your enterprise incurred different costs.

Cost Center visualizes your original costs or amortized costs in various dimensions and using different display filters for cost analysis so that you can analyze the trends and drivers of your service usage and costs from a variety of perspectives or within different defined scopes.

• Original costs are those recorded when the expenditures are generated.
• Amortized costs are those recorded when the revenues are obtained or the costs are generated.

You can also forecast your costs and usage to plan ahead.

For details about cost and usage information, access Billing Center and choose Billing > Bills, or access Cost Analysis in Cost Center.

Common cost analysis methods include:

Preconfigured Analysis Reports

Custom Analysis Reports

Cost Tags

Cost Details

Forecasting