Skip to content
7lens Docs
7lens.io Register to Test

CFO Capital Lens

Where does technology spend leak, and what does it do to the business?

  • Who it is for: Chief Financial Officers and finance leaders responsible for technology cost, investment and business value.
  • The question it answers: Where does technology spend leak, and what does it do to the business?

How you onboard the use case

Section titled “How you onboard the use case”

You onboard the CFO Capital Lens by onboarding the 7lens Ontology and relating technology cost to the technology, applications and business areas it supports.

1. Bring in technology cost

Section titled “1. Bring in technology cost”

Ingest technology cost and investment from the finance and source systems the organization already uses, through Collector.

2. Relate spend to what it supports

Section titled “2. Relate spend to what it supports”

Connect each cost to the applications, services, business areas and organizational entities it funds, using the relationships in the 7lens Ontology.

3. Read cost against value

Section titled “3. Read cost against value”

Relate spend to business value and efficiency so cost optimization is grounded in what each investment actually delivers.

4. Build a Lens

Section titled “4. Build a Lens”

Once the 7lens Ontology is onboarded, configure the Lens on top of your existing Context: the attributes, relationships, mappings, and context this reading needs. You do not start from scratch, because the Ontology and the Context are already there. The seven named Lenses are reference use cases you configure, combine and extend, not separate pre-built products.

What 7lens connects

Section titled “What 7lens connects”

The CFO Capital Lens relates technology spend to the Context: the technology, applications, services, business areas and organizational entities the spend actually supports, so cost is read against business value rather than as an isolated financial figure.

  • Technology cost
  • Applications
  • Services
  • Business areas
  • Organizational entities
  • Technology investment
  • Business value
  • Efficiency and cost optimization

Relationship chain: Spend → Technology → Application → Business area → Business value

Each unit of spend connects through the technology and applications it funds to the business area and value it supports, so leaks and returns both become visible.

The problem

Section titled “The problem”

The CFO sees technology spend as a financial number, but not what that spend actually supports. Cost, applications, services, business areas and organizational entities live in different systems, so it is hard to relate investment to business value or to find where spend leaks without delivering a return.

Spend only means something when it is related to the technology, applications and business it supports.

The outcome

Section titled “The outcome”

The CFO can see where technology spend leaks and what it does for the business: which applications, services and business areas each cost supports, where investment delivers value, and where cost can be optimized — instead of an isolated financial number.

The value

Section titled “The value”

Technology spend is related to the technology, applications and business areas it actually supports, so the CFO can connect cost to business value and target efficiency where it matters.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”