An ERP Solution for IT

Achieve Greater IT Financial Management

through Advanced IT Service Costing

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ABOUT KEDARitFounded in 2001, KEDAR Information

Technologies is one of the nation’s leading

IT Service Management companies that

specialize in strategic Financial

Management, Process Engineering, and

Training business and technology

solutions.

OUR THEMETo put the value stream of how business objectives are achieved at our client’s �ngertips. Providing these clients greater cost transparency and governance over business processes and technology resources.

OUR MISSIONUsing cutting-edge technologies to develop “Lean Thinking” solutions that achieve enduring results for our clients.

OUR COMMITMENTKEDARit is committed to helping your IT organization succeed. We accomplish this by leveraging our experience, knowledge of best practice frameworks, and proprietary intellectual property in ways that enable you to:• Reduce costs• Improve IT service management capabilities• Increase the effectiveness of operations

Contact us to Optimizeand reduce Your It Costs.

KEDAR Information technologies, Inc.

(972)-317-3577 www.KEDARit.com

ContactUs@KEDARit.com

COp-S™ Delivers Immediate Value

Rapid Return On InvestmentKEDARit clients save an average of 3% to 8%.Most have saved over a million dollars by implementing Iresulting COp-S™ optimized solutions that relate directly to information uncovered during a COp- S™ engagement.

Accelerate Cost Optimization and Reduction Initiatives COp-S™ accelerates the time-to-value of service-based cost optimization and reduction efforts by delivering greater IT cost transparency required for crucial spending decisions, built-in best practices, proven approachesand experiences.

Align Business Strategy to IT ServIces and ProcessesCOp-S™ provides the tools, ITFM best practice, and IT service costing methods to focus on your strategic business’ objectives. COp-S™ allows your organization to focus on the real IT service and process cost drivers - not just technology and people cost. COp-S™ you to view IT spending from multiple dimensions and how it is aligned to services, business units and objectives, departments, and employee processes and activities.

Optimize IT Service Delivery CostsCOp-S™ allows IT organizations to optimize service delivery costs. COp-S™ provides automated cost allocation methods and framework for:• Service spending and usage,• Service Catalog items, and• Service cost driver mapping..

Improve Service Level ManagementCOp-S™ improves service level management by:• Lowering the cost of delivering business services• Improving adoption of standards and best practice, and• Modeling service unit costs.

Ensure ComplianceEnsure compliance with industry quality and regulatory requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, OMB Circular A-87, ISO 20000, and others through implementation of COp-S™

A Stable, Successful and SustainableSolution that includes:• IT financial management dashboards• Easy to use What-if analysis functions• Powerful IT financial cost modeling tools• IT service costing patented methodology

The pervasive nature of technology in business today demands that CIOs communicate the cost and value of technology based capabilities in business language. Also, CIOs must de�ne and manage the utilization of these capabilities in business measureable terms. 

IT organizations that have a comprehensive understanding of their costs and aligned business value more effectively optimize these costs, eliminate waste, and achieve transformation to lean management at an accelerated time to value pace. 

The Cost Optimization Service Solution Delivers The unprecedented IT service cost transparency and value alignment to business objectives that today’s CIOs and Business Leaders need. COp-S™ enables IT organizations to quickly:

Develop an IT Service Catalogby de�ning IT technology capabilities into a structured Service Catalog.

Achieve Greater Cost Transparency by applying an automated methodology to determine the unit cost of IT services.

De�ne Business and IT Value Alignment by utilizing a powerful cost modeling tool to establish the value IT delivers each business unit. .

• Business and IT Alignment

• Demand Driven Value

• Optimization Solutions

• Showback/Chargeback

• Automated Financial Model

• Allocation Management

• Service Catalog

• Service Unit Cost

• Service Utilization

CostTransparenc

ValueAlignment

BusinessIntelligence

COp-S™ integrated capabilities • Service unit costs,• Consumed service usage,• Employee process and activity utilization,• Impact of improvements,• Key performance indicators (KPI’s), and• Cost allocation of people, process and technology.

De�ne IT Unit Cost for Maximum ValueCOp-S™ achieves what manual spreadsheet or basic accounting methods are unable to do. For example, the COp-S™ service-based cost model allows you to implement an IT Service Catalog, and de�ne:

• Billing and charge-back strategies,• High-cost low-value services, and• Underlying cost drivers.

The COp-S™ cost model’s, structured methodology, and automated tools improve accuracy of IT Financial Management, and makes it easy and fast. IT organizations that use COp-S™ apply “business intelligence (BI)” information to accurately determine the effectiveness of IT services delivered to end users, based on return on value, cost, and resource utilization. COp-S™ delivers scalability and �exibility, so CIOs can de�ne IT service costs, and create a mature chargeback system that allocates service costs to multiple sources, such as:

COp-S™ provides you the capability to directly apply IT �nancial management and ITSM concepts:

• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO),• Activity Based Costing (ABC),• Managerial Accounting,• IT Service Management (ITSM),• IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Financial Management best practice.

For many business and government organizations, the use of the COp-S™ service-based cost model delivers value driven services at optimized costs. IT leaders are better able to manage the organization’s �nancial performance to meet business objectives.

Why? Because they have real-time access to Demand Management and Staff Utilization dataand information. Business and IT leaders that regularly review this business intelligence lower their service unit costs across the enterprise, and make decisions based on resource and investment facts.

• Business units,• Applications, and• Personnel.

Armed with the right service-based costing model and business intelligence, business and IT decision makers make the right optimization and investment decisions that more effectively maximize productivity and revenue.