Week One:• Identify existing data sources• Associate data to IT services• Con�gure cost formulas • Setup templates

Week Two:• Personalize templates• Customize work�ows • Setup user accounts• Begin use

Two Weeks to Visibility into Costs of Business Applications

Achieve Cost Visibilty noW!

Digital Fuel’s IT Cost Management solutions can begin saving your organization money in weeks. Using a SaaS approach, Digital Fuel hosts everything for you, eliminating the overhead of installation and deployment in your datacenter. Pick any area where you need visibility – business applications, storage, virtualization, etc. – and your IT and finance teams will have access to the detailed IT cost data they need to make smart cost-related decisions within weeks.

Gain Full Cost Visibility into Application Costs

The total cost of an enterprise application is much more than

software licenses and maintenance fees. Server, network, database,

LDAP, backups, failover, redundancy, consulting and more all

contribute substantial costs to running the application. With

a complex range of cost drivers to be understood for each of

the hundreds of applications delivered by corporate IT, full cost

visibility is vital to make smart spending decisions that align with

business goals.

The costs for business applications must be reduced – and the

business must be supported. If you have ever struggled to meet

these opposing requirements IT Cost Management can answer

key questions:

What BU is consuming what business application and how •much is it costing?

Which business applications are running over budget – •and why?

Which applications could operate with a reduced service level?•

Can we save money by terminating maintenance or ending •the life of an application?

How can our business application portfolio be minimized •effectively?

What are the cost savings of outsourcing a business •application?

Tangible results from increased Cost Visibility

IT professionals and finance teams must continually make decisions

that impact both cost and service levels of business applications.

Giving individuals in-depth information about cost drivers helps

to make smarter decisions when comparing actual spend to plan,

running annual budgeting processes, executing cost reduction

analysis, providing BU visibility, or conducting any other business

processes that impacts costs.

For teams responsible for business applications, visibility into costs

delivers immediate savings:

Application Portfolio Rationalization• – Among all the hundreds of applications in your organization, which deliver value and which cost too much for what you get? IT Cost Management will rank all applications in your portfolio by cost, by priority, and by cost per user, immediately identifying those applications that are too expensive for value received.

Reduction in Service Levels• – Business requirements do change. Applications that historically needed high service levels may no longer need the same high level of service. IT Cost Management will uncover the applications that have high total and high unit costs, then drill down into reasons for those

excessive expenditures to identify applications that have the potential to deliver significant costs savings if service levels were reduced.

End-of-Life Applications• – An easy way to save money without impacting the business is to end-of-life or terminate maintenance on applications with high costs and low usage levels. IT Cost Management delivers visibility into the use of business applications including business priority and the cost per user to quickly identify candidates for end-of-life.

Outsourcing Candidates• – Outsourcing can be a great money saver – but not always. IT Cost Management delivers visibility into infrastructure and support costs for applications and compares those to industry standard costs, quickly identifying those applications that should be considered for outsourcing.

Reduce Support Costs• – Applications that have high support costs but a low number of support calls are candidates for reducing support levels. With IT Cost Management, you gain visibility into the overall support costs for all applications as well as the per user costs.

Eliminate Inefficiencies in Underlying Infrastructure• – The cost of underlying infrastructure can drive up the costs of business applications significantly. IT Cost Management gives visibility into the underlying cost drivers including hardware, network, backups, security, consulting, administration and more. With this visibility, application owners can make informed decisions about tradeoffs in service levels.

Application Chargeback and Billing• – It is much easier to have a business conversation about the cost of delivering applications if full visibility into underlying expenses is available to all parties. IT Cost Management delivers full transparency into the cost of business applications to both corporate IT and the business units that must pay for them. Fact-based conversations about cost are enabled using a common language.

iT Cost Management for Business Applications

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iT Cost Management for Business Applications

IT Cost Management brings organization and visibility into the complex underlying cost drivers that impact application costs.

IT Cost Management shows important metrics at a glance to immediately identify cost irregularities requiring attention.

IT Cost Management instant summary reports deliver quick information with drill-down reporting for deeper analysis of key cost drivers.

©2009 Digital Fuel Technologies, inc. All rights reserved