CIOview Announces Fourth Generation TCO/ROI Engine
Exciting Improvements Include Blazing Performance, Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Model
Maynard, MA -- CIOview, the leading provider of TCO and ROI tools which help IT executives make better IT purchase decisions, is pleased to announce the release of CIOview Player 4.0, the fourth generation of its financial modeling tools. This new software platform breaks barriers in performance and ease of use, and introduces a new, flexible pricing model to match customers’ usage needs.
Engine Drives Powerful ROI and TCO Analysis
The CIOview Player is the foundation engine that drives all CIOview TCOnow! and ROInow! products. CIOview Player 4.0’s breakthrough design enhances performance multi-fold, and also adds navigational and design elements to greatly improve the user’s experience.
“With customers demanding deeper understanding of the total costs of their technology, more encompassing analysis is required. The screeching performance of this new release is mandatory to perform the analysis – including capacity planning and configuration analysis – that CIOview customers have come to expect,” said Scott McCready, president of CIOview. “The CIOview Player 4.0 delivers the muscle to drive the far-reaching knowledge and deep intelligence that are built in to CIOview products.”
Most TCO and ROI analysis tools today are based upon electronic spreadsheets, as the earliest generation of CIOview’s tools was. This new release breaks away from the limitations of a spreadsheet design, allowing CIOview to develop the most sophisticated financial inferencing models available today. Features of the new engine include:
- High performance financial engine, which can process large amounts of data at three to ten times the performance of a spreadsheet
- A robust inferencing engine that guide you through massive amounts of complex financial information
- Side-by-side TCO comparisons, unique in the market
- New user interface which simplifies navigation through the analysis
- Advice is in place for each line item, explaining how to answer each question
- Thousands of default benchmark data points are included, allowing you to progress through your analysis even without exact data for each question. You can refine your answers at a later date if required.
- Capacity planning tools that are system- and vendor-specific are built in
- Effortlessly share and update TCO and ROI projects with members of your team with CIOview’s portable format
- Localized benchmark data, including currencies and exchange rates for 26 countries
Innovative Pricing Model Maps to Typical ROI and TCO Tool Usage Requirements
CIOview Player 4.0 introduces a unique, flexible pricing model for customers. Customers can now choose the license term for each ROI/TCOnow! product that best matches their project’s planning and analysis period. For example, consultants can acquire ROI/TCOnow! products for the length of a client engagement, and IT organizations can acquire the ROI and TCO analysis tools for specific, upcoming decisions as needed. Licenses can be obtained for durations ranging from one month to multiple years.
The CIOview Player 4.0 is available immediately, and is the foundation of TCOnow! for Storage Management, TCOnow! for Windows versus Linux, ROInow! for Portals, and over 20 CIOview products. CIOview Player is available at no charge with Release 4.0 TCOnow! and ROInow! products.
About CIOview
CIOview is the industry standard provider of software products that configure, cost and compare technology solutions, so that IT professionals make better purchasing decisions. Use by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies, CIOview is the standard for comparing value of IT solutions.
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