IT Finance Manager

Business Organization Management

Similar to the view before, this cluster map shows projects that are being executed in an organization and have an impact on business processes. The color indicates the status of the project and the symbols indicate the budget of the project.

The business architect can quickly identify projects that consume the budget and understand the planned improvements for future business IT supports.

Application Cost Management

Investment Portfolio Management means deciding whether you buy, sell or maintain a position in an investment. For that, it is crucial to understand the past, current and future price of an investment. In a similar way, Application Portfolio Management requires the ability to understand what the total cost of an application is so that decisions whether to invest, maintain or retire an application can be base don facts. planningIT provides sophisticated cost management capabilities to truly understand and project the cost of your IT landscape.

Life-Cycle Costing

Applications ads well as technologies often have life cycles that span 10 or more years. Understanding at what point it becomes un-economic to continue to support an application is critical so that future investments can be planned. Managing the Capex / Opex ratio so that IT innovation is balanced with a sustainable cost-efficient IT infrastructure requires the ability to not just manage the current cost of an application but to understand the past cost trend and the future cost direction.