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Invest in Realistic and Comprehensive Project Costing
Blueprint: CIO
IT leaders are often held accountable for unexpected cost overruns despite routinely being excluded from project budgeting in the first place. The result? Initiatives that fail to deliver, strained relationships with finance, and an ongoing credibility gap. Our actionable research helps IT...
Do the math now so that you can defend the spend later.
This Excel tool provides a full view of total costs over your project’s lifecycle.. Estimate the total costs of your investment for up to five years postproject. Summarize your estimated amounts versus actual costs.Assess the long-term cost of operating and maintaining your investment.Document and analyze the variables and assumptions that could.
TCO Calculator
Tool: CIO
This Excel tool provides a full view of total costs over your project’s lifecycle.
Capture and Market the ROI of Your VMO
Blueprint: Vendor Management
Calculating the impact or value of a vendor management office (VMO) can be difficult without the right framework and tools. In addition to quantifying the VMO’s contributions, they must be conveyed internally so that other departments understand the VMO’s impact on and benefits to the entire...
Quantify the impact and demonstrate the value that your VMO delivers to your organization.
Use this tool to determine the cost of your RFP process. Use this tool to calculate the cost of your RFP process and to track the savings achieved from issuing fewer RFPs or speeding up the RFP process. The first version can be used to estimate the cost of an RFP when the human capital devoted to the project is fairly consistent from week to week..
General Process Cost Estimator and Delta Estimator
Tool: Vendor Management
Use this general tool to calculate the cost and potential savings due to improvements in processes when other tools are too specific.
ServiceNow Cloud Cost Management
SoftwareReviews: Software Product
Improve cloud resources, manage costs, and reduce risk. Gain in-depth visibility into cloud consumption for SaaS, laaS, and PaaS, all in a single place.
Improve cloud resources, manage costs, and reduce risk. Gain in-depth visibility into cloud consumption for SaaS, laaS, and PaaS, all in a single place.
Move a Data Center
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
IT managers may only face a data center move once or twice in their professional lives, and therefore may have little knowledge of how to approach the project.
Moving the data center is best described as a controlled disaster where minute-by-minute planning is critical to success.
A data center move has numerous one-time and ongoing expenses spanning a range of areas and project phases. It is important to develop an accurate budget up fron... A data center move has numerous one-time and ongoing expenses spanning a range of areas and project phases. A recent Info-Tech survey indicates that the average data center relocation.
Data Center Relocation Budget Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
A data center move has numerous one-time and ongoing expenses spanning a range of areas and project phases. It is important to develop an accurate budget up front so that expectations regarding the timeline of these costs throughout the project can be budgeted for in advance.
CostLens
SoftwareReviews: Software Product
CostLens is a fully hosted IT Financial Management software with a pre-built cost modelling engine aligned to industry-standards that automates Cost Transparency & Showback reports, enables Cost Takeout, Demonstrates value of Shared Services, and improves returns of Transformation initiatives.
CostLens is a fully hosted IT Financial Management software with a pre-built cost modelling engine aligned to industry-standards that automates Cost Transparency & Showback reports, enables Cost Takeout, Demonstrates value of Shared Services, and improves returns of Transformation initiatives.
CostPerform Cost Management Software
SoftwareReviews: Software Product
By effectively managing costs you can improve your company’s performance and outperform the competition. And with CostPerform’s cost management software, it’s easier, more transparent, less risky and more fun than creating a spreadsheet in Excel.
By effectively managing costs you can improve your company’s performance and outperform the competition. And with CostPerform’s cost management software, it’s easier, more transparent, less risky and more fun than creating a spreadsheet in Excel.
Meeting Cost Estimator
Tool: Vendor Management
Use this tool to determine the cost of your vendor-related meetings.
Use this tool to determine the cost of your vendor-related meetings. Use this tool to calculate the cost of your meetings and to track the savings achieved from scaling back your meetings: fewer meetings, fewer people attending meetings, and shorter meetings. There are two versions of the Meeting Cost Estimator. The first version can be used to.
Microsoft Cost Management
SoftwareReviews: Software Product
Manage your cloud investment with Microsoft Cost Management. Track usage, monitor expenses, identify cost anomalies, and forecast your expenditures. Summarize costs, compare usage, and isolate fluctuations so you can focus on creating efficiencies to support your day-to-day operations.
Manage your cloud investment with Microsoft Cost Management. Track usage, monitor expenses, identify cost anomalies, and forecast your expenditures. Summarize costs, compare usage, and isolate fluctuations so you can focus on creating efficiencies to support your day-to-day operations.
Take Control of Cloud Costs on AWS
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
Develop processes, procedures, and policies to effectively manage cloud costs.
Change the way you work to get full value from the cloud.
Document cost factors by cloud service. Use this template to document the drivers of cost for the cloud services your organization uses.
Service Cost Cheat Sheet
Templates And Policies: Infrastructure & Operations
Document cost factors by cloud service.
Establish a Service-Based Costing Model
Blueprint: CIO
Service-based costing brings clarity to IT expenditures and visibility to IT consumption. However, overcoming the challenges of service-based costing requires a logical and systematic approach.
Not knowing your costs is an expense you can’t afford.
The Service-Based Cost Model Tool is designed to identify the cost of IT department services, such as the cost of the help desk service. The Service-Based Cost Model Tool is designed to identify the cost of IT department services, such as the cost of the help desk service. The tool uses cost allocation and the IT department general ledger to.
Service-Based Cost Model Tool
Tool: CIO
The Service-Based Cost Model Tool is designed to identify the cost of IT department services, such as the cost of the help desk service.
Service-Based Costing Presentation
Templates And Policies: CIO
The Service-Based Costing Presentation is designed to present the costs of specific services.
Endpoint Protection TCO & ROI Comparison Calculator
Tool: Security
Use this TCO and ROI calculator to compare costs and benefits when examining various endpoint protection solutions.
Use this TCO and ROI calculator to compare costs and benefits when examining various endpoint protection solutions. Use this tool to establish TCO models specific to your organization. Gain an understanding of the financial consequences of three different options versus the status quo. The tool can be used to:Forecast different cost models based.
Build a Data Center
Blueprint: Infrastructure & Operations
42% of IT leaders have been tasked with completing a data center build-out in 2010. Often, the organization lacks previous experience building a data center.
Building a data center is a complex and expensive challenge requiring specific design and engineering skills.
Building a Greenfield data center is an expensive and lengthy project that can be hard to plan for. A recent Info-Tech survey showed a decrease in facility costs to an average of $400-$700 per square foot, as opposed to the industry standard of $600-$900 per square foot. This data center facility budget tool will help to estimate: ... A recent.
Data Center Facility Budget Tool
Tool: Infrastructure & Operations
Building a Greenfield data center is an expensive and lengthy project that can be hard to plan for. Because of its enormity, it is extremely important to accurately estimate a budget. Estimate capital expenditures and operating expenses over the lifespan of the data center to help plan for the...
Infracost
SoftwareReviews: Software Product
Infracost shifts cloud costs left and makes FinOps proactive. It sits in the engineering workflow (CI/CD), and shows the cost impact of code changes (IaC) before the code is shipped to production. This catches costly mistakes before any money has been spent. It also checks to make sure all resources are tagged with your set tagging policy, and runs checks on the code against our FinOps policy packs, ensuring best practices are followed (e.g. GP2 volumes should be GP3).
Infracost shifts cloud costs left and makes FinOps proactive. It sits in the engineering workflow (CI/CD), and shows the cost impact of code changes (IaC) before the code is shipped to production. This catches costly mistakes before any money has been spent. It also checks to make sure all resources are tagged with your set tagging policy, and.
Software Configuration Management Tools: Comparative TCO Calculator
Tool: Change & Release Management
For smaller development teams, open-source software configuration management (SCM) tools are a tempting alternative to commercial off-the-shelf packages. Use this total cost of ownership tool to find the real cost differential between open-source and commercial options.
A spreadsheet that dynamically calculates total cost per category, total cost per year, and overall TCO for open-source and commercial off-the-shelf SCM solutions. Employ this TCO tool to find the real cost differential between open-source and commercial options.This tool is part of Info-Tech's software configuration management series, which also.
Build Your IT Cost Optimization Roadmap
Blueprint: CIO
Develop an IT cost-optimization strategy based on your specific circumstances and timeline. Info-Tech’s methodology helps you maintain sustainable cost optimization across IT by focusing on four levers: assets, vendors, project portfolio, and workforce.
Improve cost-to-value in a sustainable manner.
Develop an IT cost-optimization strategy based on your specific circumstances and timeline. Info-Tech’s methodology helps you maintain sustainable cost optimization across IT by focusing on four levers: assets, vendors, project portfolio, and workforce. Improve cost-to-value in a sustainable manner.
IT Cost Optimization Research Center
Research Center
Improve your IT cost-to-value ratio while building a mature and sustainable cost optimization practice.
The IT Cost Optimization Research Center by Info-Tech Research Group is your gateway to improving your organization's IT cost-to-value ratio and building a sustainable cost optimization practice. Discover the key strategies and initiatives that will enable you to optimize your IT costs while maximizing the value delivered by your IT investments..
Routine COTS Application Maintenance Policy
Templates And Policies: Applications
Over the course of an application's lifecycle, maintenance costs will comprise the majority of total cost of ownership. An Application Maintenance Policy should be in place for all COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) applications to maximize availability.
Over the course of an application's lifecycle, maintenance costs will comprise the majority of total cost of ownership. An Application Maintenance Policy should be in place for all COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) applications to maximize availability.. Over the course of an application’s... This Routine COTS Application Maintenance Policy will.
Build a More Effective Go-to-Market Strategy
Blueprint: Applications
A successful go-to-market (GTM) strategy aligns marketing, product, sales, and customer success, enables product launch decision-making based on deep buyer understanding, and drives competitive differentiation with a solid business case to capture incremental market opportunity.
Maximize GTM success with sharper market and buyer insight, competitive differentiation, and launch readiness to drive revenues.
The Go-to-Market Strategy Cost Budget and Revenue Forecast Workbook enables the capture of costs related to product design, build and launch, and helps you compare projected revenues to gauge acceptable margins in support of the product launch business case. The Go-to-Market Strategy Cost Budget and Revenue Forecast Workbook enables the capture of.
Go-to-Market Strategy Cost Budget and Revenue Forecast Workbook
Tool: Applications
The Go-to-Market Strategy Cost Budget and Revenue Forecast Workbook enables the capture of costs related to product design, build and launch, and helps you compare projected revenues to gauge acceptable margins in support of the product launch business case.
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