CIOview Announces ROInow! for Tivoli's Business System Manager (TBSM)
IT and CFOs can quickly establish the costs and benefits of moving to the next generation of system management tools
Boxborough, MA -- CIOview, the leading provider of ROI and TCO software tools that help organizations make better IT purchasing decisions, today announced ROInow! for Tivoli's Business System Manager (TBSM).
ROInow! for Tivoli TBSM allows users to rapidly estimate the cost and benefits of managing computers on a line-of-business basis rather than using a stovepipe approach. The software permits users to look at the systems requirements right down to the task level, making it very clear where the savings are likely to come from. ROInow! for Tivoli TBSM also enables users to change financial assumptions such as tax rates, cost of capital, as well as change other assumptions such as IT staff experience and system expansion possibilities.
"The Tivoli Business Systems Manager solution is a great product for many business," said Scott McCready, CIOview President, "but the costs of implementation need to be clearly analyzed to ensure a proper fit with an organization. ROInow! for Tivoli TBSM is the perfect tool for anyone thinking of implementing the Tivoli solution."
The Nuances of TBSM Can Be Lost
Before TBSM, companies had one set of system monitors for their mainframes and quite another for their UNIX boxes. The messages and the skill set required for these two worlds are quite different. As a result, companies have a stovepipe approach to their systems management requirements. How do you prioritize system warnings or failures if you don't know what the business impact will be of a particular server becoming unavailable? How do you know if it is a test machine that is in trouble or a machine responsible for transferring payment information to a central bank? TBSM allows companies to see the computer resources and system management issues by line-of-business operation thereby providing senior management with a clear picture and business case for applying more computing resources to a particular business function.
According to Scott McCready president of CIOview, "TBSM is a classic case of IT being able to say we know best, but senior management want to know explicitly what the savings are. Now IT can say to their CFO, 'here is the cost structure that we currently have in place and here is a side-by-side comparison of how our cost structure would look like if we deployed TBSM.' Given that the nuances of system management can be lost for many CFO's, the equation for TBSM has to be a very clear case."
About CIOview ROInow! for TBSM
ROInow! for TBSM, through an easy, question-and-answer format, lets your company evaluate the costs and benefits of implementing a new generation of systems management automation. You don't have to be a technology or finance expert to gain an accurate, granular view of the costs and benefits associated with a TBSM implementation. In 5 minutes or less you can quickly establish what the basic costs and benefits will be. Furthermore it becomes immediately apparent what the major factors are that will drive your costs and benefits. If you are satisfied that a more detailed analysis is warranted you simply move into the FullView portion of ROInow! where you can modify all of the underlying assumptions.
ROInow! has hundreds of default data points, each accompanied by a helpful hint to guide you to either accept the default answer or help you change it appropriately. Once you have completed your ROI analysis you can perform "what-if" scenarios to test the robustness of your assumptions. Finally the product automatically delivers an editable 35-page business case detailing all of your individualized costs and assumptions.
Features of ROInow! for TBSM
- Simple to use format
- Helpful hints and assumptions built into the product get you up and running immediately, without formal training
- Financial analysis for 3, 4, or 5-year periods
- Choice of financial results: after-tax TCO, budgeted TCO, "CFO-ready" TCO
- Automatically generated charts: Total cost by platform, TCO by platform over time, total budgeted cost by platform, breakdown of annual an initial costs by platform, and more
- Comprehensive "what-if" scenarios -- one click changes tax rate, cost of capital, depreciation method, equipment capitalization threshold and more
- "Behind the Scenes" section details the assumptions and defaults for all costs
- Default values provided for all selections; can be overridden if your organization has specific costs
- A comprehensive report that details your costs by category and explains your financial results is available to view on-screen and export.
Pricing and Availability
ROInow! for TBSM is available now and can be purchased on the company's web site at www.cioview.com for $999.
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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