CIOview Announces TCOnow! for ERP/CRM
Now CIOs can quickly establish the best platform for ERP and CRM projects
Boxborough, MA -- CIOview, the leading provider of software tools that help organizations make better IT purchasing decisions, today announced TCOnow! for ERP/CRM. TCOnow! for ERP/CRM lets IT managers who are implementing ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) determine the most cost-effective platform for them to use -- from NT to Unix to mainframe.
Prior to TCOnow! it took weeks of work for an IT professional to assess the cost of ERP/CRM on just one platform. Using TCOnow!, that can be accomplished in just hours or less, and TCOnow! lets you automatically compare platforms without any additional effort. According to Scott McCready, President of CIOview, "In the past, many platform decisions were based on gut feeling -- few companies were platform-agnostic. TCOnow! lets you see the different costs associated with all of the major platforms. Now, CFOs can now make rational, facts-based platform selections."
Breakthrough Budget Planning Detail
Organizations can see the total costs by major cost category -- hardware, software, storage, networking, services, people, facilities, downtime, and more. TCOnow! lets you see how your category costs differ from platform to platform. Even more, there are two additional levels of analysis that allow you to drill down to the details: an item level by cost category; and an assumptions level by item. All told, TCOnow! provides a level of budget planning unavailable until now.
"This can save an organization weeks of work -- the level of detail and comprehensive analysis is more than any organization can pull together on its own in a short timeframe," commented McCready. "Accurate budgeting is essential for businesses, and TCOnow! gets you there quickly."
About CIOview TCOnow! for ERP/CRM
TCOnow! for ERP/CRM, through an easy, question-and-answer format, lets your company evaluate the costs of implementing an ERP/CRM solution. You don't have to be a technology or finance expert to gain an accurate, granular view of the costs associated with an ERP/CRM implementation. In 15 minutes you quickly can establish what the basic costs of deploying ERP and CRM are on various platforms -- from NT and Unix to a mainframe. Then you can drill down in increasing detail on any cost area you want to explore further, even to the point of examining the cost of racks and cabling and the respective power consumption of the hardware selected.
TCOnow! 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. TCOnow! contains a 5-minute PreView version as well as a detailed analysis option. In addition, with one click you can explore "behind the scenes" -- to understand the detailed data behind the TCOnow inference engine.
Once you have completed your TCO analysis you can perform "what-if" scenarios to test the robustness of your assumptions. Finally the product automatically delivers an editable 30-page business case detailing all of your individualized costs and assumptions.
Features of TCOnow! for ERP/CRM
- A robust inference engine using hundreds of data points creates a system configuration
- A capacity planning engine which changes the system configuration based on your anticipated growth rates
- 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 ROI, budgeted ROI, "CFO-ready" ROI
- 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
TCOnow! for ERP/CRM is available now and can be purchased on the company's web site at www.cioview.com for $3,499.
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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