# Platform Features & Modules

The Archera platform is divided into the following dashboards and the general areas they fall under.

## Setup

**0. Actionable Savings** — Contains the setup "success" checklist with the steps needed to complete setup of Archera for the given clouds you have installed, and view the initial savings analysis with low-risk, 1-click potential savings once setup is completed.

## Commitments

**1. Commitment Planner** — The core dashboard. Features the ability to submit "purchase plans" for commitments you would like to buy, create and manage custom plans, and view submitted and executed plans. Archera provides three plans by default: "Recommended", "Balanced", and "High Savings."

**2. Commitment Inventory** — Shows all of your commitments and their respective cost, savings, utilization, and locked/unlocked status (only relevant to Archera's Insured Commitments).

**3. Commitment Moneyback** — Shows what commitments are being suggested for buyback or rebate, what commitments have been slated for buyback, and what commitments were bought back or are currently being rebated by Archera. You can also enable buyback automation based on a specific lookback period and dollar threshold.

## Visibility

**4. Cost Attribution** — Allows you to view segments of your infrastructure and their accompanying cost, resource count, and budget. You can also make segments here based on cloud provider and infrastructure rules (service, resource group, region, tags, instance family, operating system, and tenancy).

**5. Cost Explorer** — Similar to AWS's Cost Explorer functionality. Allows you to view costs across time, compare costs across time ranges, group by specific metrics, view costs by metric (amortized, blended, net amortized, net unblended, unblended, normalized usage amount, usage quantity), adjust cost granularity (daily, monthly, yearly), and more.

**6. Infrastructure Inventory** — Shows all resources in your accounts. You can filter infrastructure by many options, including whether they were recently used, uptime, coverage, instance family, instance type, and more. Click through any resource to see additional details about usage.

**7. Savings Breakdown** — Shows gross and net savings across different commitment/service types, along with resource cost and count over time.

**8. Financial Workbench** — Allows you to add the terms of your EDP/PPA (Enterprise Discount Plan / Private Pricing Agreement with AWS) and add any active credit programs from cloud providers.

## Operations

**9. Reporting** — Custom reporting dashboard separated into five different tabs: Cost Explorer, Segment Explorer, Reservation Explorer, Tag Explorer, and Monthly Explorer.

**10. Assessments** — Relates to AWS's WAFR (Well-Architected Framework Report).

**11. Payment Planner** — Shows a log of all payments issued to customers in the form of rebates or credits from Archera.

**12. Forecasting** — Allows you to create custom forecasts based on services and third-party software costs.

## Settings

Along with these dashboards, there are organization settings and user settings portals:

### Organization Settings

* **General** — General settings
* **Users** — Users in the organization
* **SSO** — SSO settings
* **Billing** — Billing settings
* **Invoices** — Invoices
* **Integrations** — Cloud provider integrations to Archera
* **Discounts** — Applicable discounts like EDPs, PPAs, and MACCs
* **Notifications** — Organization level notification settings

### User Settings

* **Account** — User account settings
* **Notifications** — User notification settings
* **API Access** — API settings
* **Comment Templates** — Comment templates for users regarding commitment plans