1. iT Cost Management for Business Applications
Gain Full Cost Visibility into Application Costs excessive expenditures to identify applications that have the
potential to deliver significant costs savings if service levels
The total cost of an enterprise application is much more than
were reduced.
software licenses and maintenance fees. Server, network, database,
• End-of-Life Applications – An easy way to save money
LDAP, backups, failover, redundancy, consulting and more all
without impacting the business is to end-of-life or terminate
contribute substantial costs to running the application. With
maintenance on applications with high costs and low usage
a complex range of cost drivers to be understood for each of
levels. IT Cost Management delivers visibility into the use of
the hundreds of applications delivered by corporate IT, full cost
business applications including business priority and the cost
visibility is vital to make smart spending decisions that align with per user to quickly identify candidates for end-of-life.
business goals.
• Outsourcing Candidates – Outsourcing can be a great money
The costs for business applications must be reduced – and the saver – but not always. IT Cost Management delivers visibility
business must be supported. If you have ever struggled to meet into infrastructure and support costs for applications and
these opposing requirements IT Cost Management can answer compares those to industry standard costs, quickly identifying
key questions: those applications that should be considered for outsourcing.
• Reduce Support Costs – Applications that have high support
• What BU is consuming what business application and how
costs but a low number of support calls are candidates for
much is it costing?
reducing support levels. With IT Cost Management, you gain
• Which business applications are running over budget –
visibility into the overall support costs for all applications as
and why?
well as the per user costs.
• Which applications could operate with a reduced service level?
• Eliminate Inefficiencies in Underlying Infrastructure – The
• Can we save money by terminating maintenance or ending cost of underlying infrastructure can drive up the costs of
the life of an application? business applications significantly. IT Cost Management gives
• How can our business application portfolio be minimized visibility into the underlying cost drivers including hardware,
effectively? network, backups, security, consulting, administration and
more. With this visibility, application owners can make
• What are the cost savings of outsourcing a business
informed decisions about tradeoffs in service levels.
application?
• Application Chargeback and Billing – It is much easier to
Tangible results from increased Cost Visibility have a business conversation about the cost of delivering
IT professionals and finance teams must continually make decisions applications if full visibility into underlying expenses is
that impact both cost and service levels of business applications. available to all parties. IT Cost Management delivers full
transparency into the cost of business applications to both
Giving individuals in-depth information about cost drivers helps
corporate IT and the business units that must pay for them.
to make smarter decisions when comparing actual spend to plan,
Fact-based conversations about cost are enabled using a
running annual budgeting processes, executing cost reduction
common language.
analysis, providing BU visibility, or conducting any other business
processes that impacts costs.
For teams responsible for business applications, visibility into costs Achieve Cost Visibilty noW!
delivers immediate savings:
• Application Portfolio Rationalization – Among all the Week One: Week Two:
hundreds of applications in your organization, which deliver • Identify existing data sources • Personalize templates
• Associate data to IT services • Customize work ows
value and which cost too much for what you get? IT Cost • Con gure cost formulas • Setup user accounts
• Setup templates • Begin use
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. 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,
• Reduction in Service Levels – Business requirements do
eliminating the overhead of installation and deployment in your datacenter. Pick
change. Applications that historically needed high service any area where you need visibility – business applications, storage, virtualization,
levels may no longer need the same high level of service. IT 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.
Cost Management will uncover the applications that have high
total and high unit costs, then drill down into reasons for those Two Weeks to Visibility into Costs of Business Applications
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2. 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.
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