IT Cost Management for Application and Support Rationalization

To reduce costs without negatively impacting the business, expenses that do not add value must be eliminated. The challenge is to identify the right candidates for rationalization among the many applications in the IT application portfolio.

This is a hard problem. The cost of an 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 this complex range of cost drivers to be understood for each of the hundreds of applications delivered by corporate IT, it is vital to have continuous and systematic cost visibility in order to rationalize application and support offerings.

Gain Full Visibility into the Cost and Priority of Applications

If you have ever struggled to reduce costs while continuing to meet business requirements, our IT Cost Management solution can answer key questions including:

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 effectively minimized?

IT Cost Visibility Delivers Tangible Benefits

For the teams responsible for business applications, visibility into costs delivers immediate savings. The ability to compare utilization , service levels, trends and support calls with cost is a great enabler for continuous and systematic application cost optimization, including:

Application Portfolio Rationalization – Our IT Cost Management solution 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 – Our IT Cost Management solution will uncover the applications that have high total and high unit costs, then drill down into reasons for excessive expenditures to identify applications that have the potential to deliver significant costs savings if service levels were reduced.
End-of-Life Applications – Our IT Cost Management solution delivers visibility into the use of business applications including business priority, cost per user and usage trend to quickly identify candidates for end-of-life.
Reduce Support Costs – With our IT Cost Management solution, you gain visibility into the overall support costs for all applications as well as the per user costs and number of support calls to easily identify candidates for support reduction.

Out-of-the-Box IT Cost Management

Our unique approach to IT Cost Management delivers the visibility into costs needed to continuously rationalize portfolios of business applications. Only our IT Cost Management solution:

Analyzes “what-if“ scenarios to estimate savings from application rationalization
Delivers out-of-the-box application cost models
Enables drill-down into any level of detail including unit cost, cost drivers, account type, users, support calls and SLA level
Reports on applications that are candidates for end-of-life by identifying applications with low usage and high support costs
Identifies applications that have the potential to stop support
Gives visibility into applications with potential for consolidation

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