Grow your IT Wisdom for solid Business Decisions

Understand your IT costs

Dive into your IT Consumption

How do you evaluate your IT costs in terms of supporting business operations?

Understand your IT costs

Dive into your IT Consumption

IT Cost Transparency

Competitive athletes continuously review their training. They measure and adjust it quickly to achieve their goals. Corporate IT should implement this in a comparable form.

Established IT structures are often continued to operate without reviewing the benefits or their importance for the business result. In many customer projects, we were able to identify short-term savings potential. By reviewing IT service usage, coordinating with the business units or repositioning, cost optimization can be achieved in short term.

Your IT landscape usually changes on a daily basis – this requires continuous monitoring of the performance (updating of the overall landscape) as well as the dependencies between the IT services. In particular, externally provided services should be precisely monitored in order to comply with legal requirements and to ensure correct billing of services.

The benefits of our service to understand your IT costs

Your IT costs typically consist of infrastructure, provider, support and application elements. Together, we define this scope (of cost consideration) and create automated workflows to capture the necessary data. This can include all or part of the departmental costs.

By linking to usage information and utilization data, we create targeted evaluations for the defined IT services.

This includes but is not limited to:

This makes it possible to permanently scrutinize little-used, expensive IT services and, if necessary, to migrate, switch off or replace them.

Particularly in the context of mergers and acquisitions, this allows conclusions to be drawn when deciding on IT mergers.

Our Methodology

Based on your IT topology and the focus of the cost analysis, we select the IT services. Using measurement criteria to be defined, we capture cost elements in terms of consumption, use of shared resources and individual costs and create automated capture processes.

To automate the monitoring and to be able to estimate changes in advance, we implement our Data Control Platform ‘DC360Ocean’ as a data lake and analysis platform.

We then connect DC360Ocean to your data sources, such as systems monitoring, HR platform or external provider interfaces for usage information. According to the agreed criteria, we collect the necessary data and store it in our data lake.

Implementation of a central information platform for selected IT services with overviews regarding:

IT Structures

Utilization of Capacities

Costs incurred

Control your IT Usage

Example

Which technologies and capacities are needed for the implementation of a virtual sales tool?

Our service

Based on the information collected by our Data Control Platform, we jointly develop a target structure, taking into account performance, efficiency and operating expenses. For this purpose we evaluate service offerings as well as technologies.
We are happy to accompany the project during its realization.

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Increase your IT Services Quality

Example

Due to a company takeover, IT systems have to be consolidated and new users have to be integrated.

Our Service

With the IT services information we collect, we can directly estimate how many users can be integrated or which enhancements are necessary.

On request, we support you in implementing the necessary adjustments and check the results.

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Understand your IT Costs

Example

As part of a cloud strategy a company needs assistance to decide which IT services can be optimized through cloud usage.

Our Service

With our methodology we continuously collect your IT services data regarding IT usage, compliance/legal requirements (for applications & data).
Based on your requirements and IT service options we develop migration concepts for the IT services.

Upon request, we assist with the migration. If required, we support the implementation.

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Optimize your IT Investments

Example

Sales representatives regularly report critical application issues.

Our Service

We analyze your IT services, identify dependencies on infrastructure and application layers. Based on this, we create optimization concepts with concrete instructions for action.

If required, we provide support during implementation.

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Live your IT Strategy

Example

A real estate asset management company wants to offer virtual tour of buildings.

Our Service

We evaluate with you the necessary IT capacities, technologies and costs (including operation) for a cost/benefit analysis.

We are happy to accompany the project during its realization.

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