What is our CAPEX distribution?
The What is our CAPEX Distribution? is business question provides an overview of your projects and their costs.
The analytics visualize the current and planned project budgets on a yearly basis and identify the most important investment and divestment candidates. This business question helps you to understand whether your projects are in budget and on time.
Set filters for each view to understand project costs for business owner organizations, business capabilities, and various project groups. Review your current year projects per cost type so that you understand CAPEX trends, optimize project planning, and streamline the investment portfolio.
Use the method that is most convenient for you:
- In the left navigation panel, enter What is our CAPEX distribution? in the Search Navigation field.
- In the left navigation panel, click Home. In the content area, go to the Business Questions page and click the tile for What is our CAPEX distribution?
- In the left navigation panel, expand the sections Business Questions and Finance and click What is our CAPEX distribution?
Cards showing applications costs: Point to the 
rescan button to see when the indicator was last updated. Click the button to rescan the costs based on the most recent data.
25 Most Expensive Projects by Cost Type: Shows a bar chart with the most expensive projects for the current year. Each bar shows a break down of the costs based on cost type.
Planned Budget by Cost Type: Shows the distribution of the planned project costs based on cost type. Point to a doughnut slice to display a tooltip with the percentage of planned project costs for the cost type. Double-click a doughnut slice to open a report showing all projects with a cost specified for that cost type.
Planned Budget Over Time: Shows the total sum of the planned project budget for a 5-year time span. Point to a bar to display a tooltip showing the planned project budget spent for that year.
Go to the business question What is our CAPEX distribution? Click the caption of any of the reports in the content area to drill down:
- Click the caption 25 Most Costly Projects by Cost Type view to drill down to the report. Double-click a project's bar to open the content area.
- Go to Overview > Cost Accrual to review and revise the project's costs.
- Go to the Financials page to review and revise the business case for the project.
This business question relies on data captured for projects. For every project, the current year costs should be defined to have meaningful results for the business question.
Go to the Data Quality page and resolve the issues to ensure that the data is complete.
Go to the Data Source page to review the projects that are used to answer the business question. The data source is a list report and cannot be edited.