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Vendor Dashboard
Purpose
Provide a comprehensive overview of all Market Intelligence Purchasing Orders & Purchasing Requests
Use
- Enables you to view all Purchasing Requisitions by Vendor, Commodity, Termination Date (full timeseries), and Requisition Status
- Enables you to filter Purchasing Requisitions by Organization Hierarchy, Engagement Owner, Invoice Approver, and Cost Center (Business Unit Code, & Department Code).
- Shows total amount invoiced for Purchasing Orders as well as the upcoming terminations and renewals
- Provides insight into Vendor overlap & Software overlap within the organization
- Forecasts your total purchasing spend for the next year
Software Explorer
Speaking Frankly
Purpose
Provides a comprehensive overview of Speaking Frankly sessions within Market Intelligence technology.
Use
- Provides detailed insight into Q&A section of Speaking Frankly event per month
- Provides insight into attendance numbers in Speaking Frankly events within Market Intelligence technology
Technology Communication
Purpose
Provides a comprehensive overview of Communications and all events within Market Intelligence technology.
Use
- Provides insight into attendance numbers and time spent in various events across Market Intelligence technology
- Shows a comparison between unique opens and deep reads for communications sent within Market Intelligence technology
MI App Catalog
DS & MI Expense Analysis
Purpose
Provide a comparative overview of Market Intelligence -Technology P&L & DTS attribution P&L.
Use
- Enables you to view comparison of cost category between the two organization units (i.e MI Tech vs DTS attribution in MI)
- Shows total combined amount MI-Tech Operational cost and cost attribution from DTS.
- Displays DTS attributed cost on MI split by DTS organization pillars, absolute & %.
- Displays MI Tech operational cost by Business Lines, absolute & %.
CUBE
Purpose
Provide a comprehensive overview of all Market Intelligence ARIBA contracts, based on a line-line-item analysis to understand MI.
Use
- Executive Summary
- View Contract Details: Enables you to view all contract lines by Vendor, Service Tower, Expense Type, and Fee Type.
- Expense Insights: Shows total expenses by Service Tower, Vendor, and Fee Type.
- Vendor Analysis: Provides insight into vendor expenses and overlap within the organization
- Service Tower: Provides Insight Into the split of costs based on service towers.
- CUBE Model
- Filter Options: Allows filtering by Service Tower, Cost Center, Manufacturer, and Expense Archetype.
- Expense Types:
- Variable Fee: Expenses that fluctuate based on usage or other factors.
- Fixed Fee: Expenses that remain constant regardless of usage.
- Hybrid Fee: A combination of fixed and variable components.
Key Features:
- Contract Values: Displays active contract values and the count of contract lines.
- Expense Breakdown: Shows expenses by service tower, data source, and cost category.
- Vendor Expenses: Highlights expenses by vendor, including top vendors like Wipro Ltd., Oracle America, Inc., and Microsoft.
- CUBE Model: Helps users find the source of data based on service towers, service and cost categories.
Cloud Actuals vs Forecast
Purpose
Provide insight into the Market Intelligence cloud cost forecasts vs. actual costs.
Use
- Shows the AWS Account overview and how it maps to the Service Hierarchy (Click here for reference)
- Shows the forecast per AWS Account per month and a YOY comparison
- Shows the actual Cloud Spend per AWS Account vs the forecasted amount per month
Disclaimer
- Does not provide a P&L overview per Business Unit or Account.
Bladerunner Contractors
Purpose
Provide visibility across requisition spend, vendors, contractors, and employees for the Bladerunner cloud migration initiative.
Use
- Enables you to view all Purchasing Requisitions for Bladerunner by Vendor, Commodity, Termination Date (full timeseries), and Requisition Status
- Enables you to filter Purchasing Requisitions by Organization Hierarchy, Requisition ID, SBM Number, Business Unit Code
- Shows total amount invoiced for Bladerunner Purchasing Orders as well as the upcoming terminations and renewals
- Shows your and Contractor allocation to Bladerunner & provides a timeseries view of the progress
Technology Projects
Purpose
Provide a comprehensive overview of all Market Intelligence technology projects
Use
- Shows the time spend per project, per week/month/quarter/year, as well as the per person contribution
- Allows to roll up the time spend to Master Projects and Initiatives
- Shows how much time your workforce is spending on projects related to other Business Lines or Sponsoring Groups
- Provides a workforce cost overview per project:
- Employee costs are hourly costs calculated using the latest S&P Global rate card median for the Compensation Grade, Country, Tier, and Job Family Grade; and enriched with the Finance fringe on base, bonus on base, and fringe on bonus percentages.
- Non-Employee costs are based on the actual hourly costs and provided by the vendors. Where actuals costs are not available we use the Vendor-Country average cost.
Vendor Insourcing
Purpose
Reduce at least 20% of total contractors by converting BAU contractors to FTE's or rolling them off. This should result in at least a 10% recurring contractor cost reduction
Use
- Shows how we are tracking against the project plan in terms of dollars & counts for Contractors & FTEs overall & by Business Unit
- Shows the FTE hiring actuals vs plan by country, grade, & job family.
- Tracks the Telfon contractor reduction & cost reduction KPI's
- Enables you to filter by Organization Hierarchy, Business Unit Code, Vendor, Contractor, & Position ID
Vendor Insourcing
Purpose
Reduce cost by USD 10 million.
Use
- Shows how we are tracking against the project plan in terms of dollars & counts for Contractors & FTEs overall & by Business Unit
- Shows the FTE hiring actuals vs plan by country, grade, & job family.
- Tracks the Telfon contractor reduction & cost reduction KPI's
- Enables you to filter by Organization Hierarchy, Business Unit Code, Vendor, Contractor, & Position ID
MI Technology Radar
Recommendation
- Global Market Intelligence internal recommendation.
- Values are Trial, Buy/Adopt, Hold or Sell/Avoid.
- In many cases, the recommendation (and score) are based on commercial considerations and/or usage across MI (and S&P Global as a whole).
- For technologies listed as Hold, limit additional usage where possible and look for opportunities migrate away.
- For Avoid/SeII, migrate away as soon as possible.
Score
- S&P Global Market Intelligence internal score of technology where 1 is low and 100 is high.
Rating
- Industry score of technology.
- Think leader in Gartner magic quadrant.
Lincoln
Corporate Responsibility
Workforce Overview
Purpose
Provide visibility into the workforce distribution
Scope
- Division Market Intelligence
- Division Corporate - Enterprise Data
Use
- Provides the workforce actual count and trending across employees and contractors
- Provides the organizational hierarchy drill down to the most granular levels
- Provides the grade, job family, & job title distribution
- Provides insight into all open and filled positions
- Provides insight into the location distribution across country, city, and office
- Provides insight into the Early Careers (Interns & Graduates) actuals, trending, and hiring
Source Data
- Workday
- Sailpoint
Methodology to arrive at the total workforce:
Workday Feed:
- Includes all workforce reporting into the Divisional CEO, as well as the workforce allocated to Divisional cost centers
- Includes records where hire date is not null and is less than or equal to the file asof date
- Includes records where the termination date is null or greater than or equal to the file asof date
Sailpoint Feed:
- Includes all workforce reporting into the Divisional CEO, as well as the workforce allocated to Divisional cost centers
- Includes records where the hire date is not null and is less than or equal to the file asof date
- Includes records where the termination date is null or greater than or equal to the file asof date
- Includes records where IGA Status is “Active”
- Includes records where "Type" is "contractor"
- Excludes records where “Business Group” is “DIVESTED”
- Excludes records that are already in Workday
Usage & Audit
Refresh Calendar
Enterprise Radar
Corporate Vendor Dashboard
Gr8
Purpose
Provide visibility into the MI-Tech organization's alignment with our early careers hiring strategy and track against our 20% Grade 8 target
Use
- Provides the hiring trend for Interns and Grads vs Total Population
- Shows the grade distribution and % of population that are early careers
- Shows our intern conversion ratio
- Provides the breakdown by country and business line
Definitions
- Early Careers: Interns and Graduates
PRG
Purpose
Provides an insight into the PRG population within S&P Global
Use
- Shows how the population is allocated across the different PRG's
- Provides insight into which divisions the PRG leaders are in
- Provides insight into how the PRG population is spread across the business lines within Market Intelligence
Learning Compliance
Purpose
Provides insight into the completion of mandatory trainings within Market Intelligence Technology.
Use
- Provides a snapshot of the completed and non completed learnings
- Provides the overview of trainings that are overdue
- Special attention given to COBE and Escalera trainings
- Allows you to filter by Business Line and Country
Windows 11 Upgrade
Contractor Workforce
Purpose
Provide visibility into the Market Intelligence Technology Non-Employee Workforce.
Use
- Provides workforce distribution trend by Region, Country, City, and Office.
- Provides a view of contractors by vendor
- Provides trending and the average hourly rates by region
Assumptions
- Contractor hourly rates are provided directly from our top 10 vendors.
- For the remaining contractors, the hourly rate is taken from the Purchasing Requisition SOW
Workforce Rate Card
Purpose
Provide visibility into the Workforce rates within the S&P Org
Use
- Provides the average hourly rates by Region, Country, Job Grade, City Tier for employees and avg. hourly rates for the MI Tech Contractors
Assumptions
- Employee rates are provided directly from the workday rate card file
- Contractor hourly rates are for MI Tech only.
Employee Rate Card
SpinSight
Location Risk Analytics
Purpose
Provide visibility into the Market Intelligence workforce distribution and regional concentration
Use
- Provides workforce distribution by Region, Country, City, Office, Job Family/Group, Compensation Grade, and Worker Type.
- Provides a view into the top 10 countries and cities by workforce concentration
- Provides workforce and non-employee trends
- Provides a view into the internal mobility of the workforce across countries
OKR Dashboard
Purpose
Provide an overview of the Market Intelligence Technology Operational Key Results (OKRs)
Use
- Shows the overall RAG status as well as the RAG status per OKR
- Shows you the latest status of the OKR vs target and tracks the trending where possible
- Allows you to drill down into the Business Lines and Shared Services where possible
Definitions
All definitions can be found at: OKR Dashboard
- GREEN: OKR delivery is on target.
- AMBER: OKR delivery has open issues/risks with teams identifying a resolution.
- RED: OKR delivery is behind schedule with no firm resolution/plan.
- BLUE: OKR delivery has been met.
Device Compliance
Tanium App Catalog
RAW
Purpose
Provide insight into the Market Intelligence Technology People hiring plan (Workday) vs the People hiring budget (Anaplan) for the year
Use
- Facilitates the conversation between the Finance Partners, People Partners, and Hiring Managers around aligning their hiring plan to budget
- Provides a comparison of the open positions per month, grade, country
- Provides a cost comparison per month and overall
- Provides detailed insight into the overlap and delta between the two systems
Assumptions
Anaplan scope defined by Finance
Workday scope defined as:
- Open positions (regardless of REQ existence or status) with a target hire date in the relevant forward looking period
- Filled positions for future periods (hires with future start dates)
Anaplan position costs are annualized based on the December month cost * 12
Balanced Scorecard
Cloud Forecasting Percentage
BlueOptima Workforce Data
Cloud Forecast Finance
Purpose
- Provide insight into our corporate cloud costs
Scope
- Division Market Intelligence
- Division Corporate - Enterprise Data
- Division Commodity Insights
Data Sources
- Vacuum
- ServiceNow
- S&P Finance Hierarchy
Use
- Compares the Budget vs Forecast vs Actuals per cost center (UC/DC) and allows you to aggregate the costs to the Business Line and Divisional level using the S&P Finance Hierarchy
- Compares the Forecast vs Actuals per cloud account and allows you to aggregate the forecasts and costs to the Business Lines using the SNOW Service Hierarchy
- Please click here for insight into the SNOW Cloud Service Accounts
- Provides a raw data export facility
Disclaimer
- Does not provide a P&L overview per Business Line or Account
- Does not provide the invoiced amount per Business Line or Account
Software Catalog
Wipro
Investment Horizon
Purpose
Provide insight into Market Intelligence Technology time allocation to the Horizon Framework & Investment Categories
Use
- Track the journey from our internal baseline analysis in 2022 towards our Investment Horizon target of 75% Run, and 20% Grow & 5% Transform
- Provide insight into the time allocation to Investment Categories within the Horizon Framework
- Ability to filter by week, month, and quarter, as well as by organization hierarchy
Definitions
The Horizon Framework is as follows:
- Run (H1)
- Keep the Lights On
- Keep the Lights On / Support
- DevOps
- Integration
- Foundational Innovation
- Infrastructure Improvement
- Refactoring
- Feature Enhancement
- Incremental Improvements
- New Feature
- Grow (H2)
- Adjacencies
- Expanding Product (New Customer Type)
- New Product
- Transform (H3)
- Moonshots
- New Frontier
Time Tracking
Purpose
Provide insight into all time booked in Serena Business Manager (SBM) by the Market Intelligence Technology workforce
Use
- Enables you to view the workforce time tracking compliance per period, per reporting line and per sponsoring group, as well as over time
- Enables you to view the contractor time tracking submissions by status (Not Submitted, Pending Approval, Needs Clarification, and Approved)
- Provides insight into time tracked for MI Tech Initiatives, Master Projects and Projects
- Provides exports of the granular time tracking data per individual, per week
Definitions
- Employee Compliance: If time tracked hours for the week >= 75 % of contractual weekly hours
- Contractor Compliance: If time tracked hours for the week are Approved
- Executive Summary: Only shows completed weeks
Strategic Initiatives
Purpose
Provide visibility across requisition spend, vendors, contractors, and employees for initiatives CTA, Lodestone, SCAP, & MCAP.
Use
- Enables you to view all Purchasing Requisitions for the Strategic Initiatives by Vendor, Commodity, Termination Date (full timeseries), and Requisition Status
- Enables you to filter Purchasing Requisitions by Strategic Initiative, Organization Hierarchy, Requisition ID, SBM Number, and Business Unit Code.
- Shows total amount invoiced for Strategic Initiative Purchasing Orders as well as the upcoming terminations and renewals
- Shows your FTE and Contractor allocation to Strategic Initiative projects & provides the overview of open positions
Finance Hierarchies
Lacuna – Account and Spend Analytics
Fiori
Platform Usage Metrics
Operational Metrics