Announcing ROInow! Consultant Software
New ROI Calculator Justifies IT Purchases in Era of Tightened Budgets
Boxborough, MA -- CIOview, the leading provider of ROI analysis tools for information technology investments, today announced ROInow! Consultant. ROInow! Consultant provides a full-featured, easy to use template that lets consultants, IT managers, and financial specialists determine the return on investment (ROI) of any information technology initiative in less than an hour. ROInow! is built to pass the most rigorous standards of CFOs, with built-in features for the financial novice.
"Quantifying results of any IT initiative has become a requirement in most organizations, particularly in today's economic climate. Quick, accurate and comprehensive reporting on financial costs and benefits is essential," said Ann Palermo, vice president of marketing at CIOview. " We built this product to satisfy the informational needs of CFO's -- without requiring the user to have an MBA in Finance."
Organizations no longer need to spend time creating, testing and verifying complex financial analysis spreadsheets to assess and justify their planned IT projects. ROInow! Consultant insulates you from cumbersome and often confusing multi-page spreadsheet workbooks. It lets you immediately begin a financial assessment that focuses on your expertise -- your project, your company and your costs and benefits -- rather than on complex financial methodology.
About ROInow! Consultant
ROInow! Consultant lets companies evaluate the financial benefits of any information technology undertaking by providing:
- A template for gathering costs and benefits of any technology initiative lets you begin your analysis right away -- without having to create and test complex spreadsheets
- A simple user interface requires no training to get up and running
- A one-click "what-if" capability lets you immediately see the impact of changing financial assumptions, rollout schedule, and budgetary assumptions
- Financial analysis tools allow finance groups to translate the results into the terms they prefer
- Built-in financial engine for creating discounted cash flows over a 3-year timeframe; ROI, NPV IRR, TCO and payback period calculations saves hours or days of formula research, creation and testing
- Four options of depreciation method for your finance organization to choose from
- Sensitivity analysis by cost and/or benefits
- Over twelve cost and benefit categories that you can customize with your own questions and default financial data
- Easy-to-use Topic Navigator user interface quickly organizes your costs, benefits and analysis into a simple and accessible format
- Reusable customized "Project Templates" lets you share expertise throughout your organization
- Financial metrics automatically generated and graphed
- An automatically generated, custom ROI analysis report saves hours of creating charts and typing, and is fully editable in MS Word or HTML.
- Tested financial calculations gives you confidence in your results
Pricing and Availability
ROInow! Consultant is priced at $149 and is available now at www.cioview.com. "This brings instant, comprehensive ROI to a mass audience at a price no one can afford to ignore." Said Scott McCready, president of CIOview.
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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