USU - Business Service Management - Planning/Calculation Manager

The provision of IT and business services demands precise, targeted planning of resources and close cost calculations. The ability to control IT costs is equally important for IT decision-makers and those in charge of company business processes. It must be ensured that the resulting costs and the actual demand in purchase quantities for distinct IT services can be reassessed and controlled any time during the year. Company-wide goals and requirements as well as those within IT departments place great demands on the standardization and details of IT planning/budgeting and cost calculations.

With the Valuemation Planning/Calculation Manager, you'll have a clear overview of the status of your IT costs and budget at any time. It will help you to achieve great transparency over the IT budgeting process and the ongoing cost management during the course of the year. At the same time, you'll harmonize your enterprise planning and IT planning and take already allocated fixed costs into account through interfaces to ERP systems.

Your Benefits: With the Planning/Calculation Manager, you can:

Detect discrepancies between planned and actual expenses through reliable, informative reports and statistics with forecasting functions
Respond to changes in a flexible manner
Depict different scenarios and simulate unit costs and prices for more precise cost calculations and price structures
Distribute IT costs across service modules
Simplify budget coordination with other business areas
Keep your IT investments aligned with the actual demand for services and resources.

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Valuemation offers you a basis for enjoying seamlessly integrated, standardized service processes based on ITIL Best Practices, all automated to the greatest possible extent. In addition to the Planning/Calculation Manager, the following modules are also available:

Service Request Manager for automated application for and approval of IT goods and services
Procurement Manager for a lean, workflow-guided procurement process
Asset Manager for achieving the greatest transparency over your entire IT inventory
Costing/Charging Manager for usage-based cost allocation of IT services

When it comes to IT Service Management, Valuemation's proven strengths have already been well recognized by numerous international analysts:

"USU's solution (...) has strong financial management capabilities."
(Forrester Research Inc.; The Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Life-Cycle Management, Q2 2009 - 10. April 2009)
"USU has strong financial management capabilities that deliver to the needs of the ITAM market."
(Gartner, Inc.; MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2008 - 21. April 2008)

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