Program Management: Financial Tracking

[drchristina]

What are some automated tools that you use to manage your program budget?

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi @drchristina ,

1. Finance related ServiceNow Modules 

• Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM): Used for top-down planning, prioritizing work, and aligning investments with business goals.
• Application Portfolio Management (APM): Used to manage the total cost of ownership for software applications and rationalize spending.
• Resource Management: Tracks resource costs and capacity, ensuring labor expenses are accurately forecasted and tracked

2. Reporting on Finance- you can use

• Performance Analytics: Provides deep insights into financial KPIs, such as planned versus actual spending, helping to identify budget anomalies early.
• Project Workspace Dashboard: A centralized, visual workspace for tracking project KPIs, including budget health, in real-time.

3. Finance Related tracking /Planning tool.

• Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Financials: This enables managers to define, track, and monitor budgets at the project, program, and portfolio levels. It allows for the creation of cost plans, budget forecasts, and tracking of actual expenses in real-time.
• Financial Modeling and Allocation (ITFM): IT Financial Management (ITFM) provides a workbench to extract expenses from a General Ledger, map them to IT services, and automatically allocate costs based on predefined rules. (Refer: https://www.servicenow.com/community/spm-blog/itfm-cost-allocations-the-basics/ba-p/2280110)
• Cost Management Module (com.snc.cost_management): This module facilitates defining rate cards, tracking one-time or recurring costs, and distributing expenses across departments. (refer:https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-business-management/cost-management/r_CostManagement.html)
• Scenario Planning in Portfolio Planning Workspace: Enables managers to simulate different budgetary scenarios, such as budget cuts or resource shifts, to analyze financial impacts before implementation.
• Nicus Planning: A native ServiceNow store app that replaces static spreadsheets for IT budgeting and forecasting, offering automated importing of actuals for variance analysis (refer:https://store.servicenow.com/store/app/66fa6be61b246a50a85b16db234bcb20)