General Information

IT- Costing & Charging wins in the today's time increasingly in importance, since it points an enormous potential for reduction of costs out. So it is able to give a powerful tool to the foresighted IT manager, to get the finances not only at short notice under control. Costing & Charging should hold straight within the range of the information technology likewise for introduction, as today in many other, us appearing already natural ranges.

The strategic decision to lead the IT range as Cost/profit centers or system house in order to arrange and to steer the IT costs and achievements more transparent, makes on a long-term basis the introduction of a IT Costing & Charging necessary.  The IT Costing & Charging serves not only the accounting of the IT costs, but supplies also important information for the strategic IT Controlling.

For the implementation of a IT Costing & Charging, the definition of an account model will however be necessarily in the apron, in which one specifies, which achievements of the IT over which IT of products to the customer are sold.

This account model depends on the objective, the organization form of the IT and their surrounding field.

One thing should not be ignored when planning:  The account in the Client /Server surrounding field is by characteristics (e.g. heterogeneity) more complex than in the large computer surrounding field (Mainframe).  Information can be generated by evaluations of the data of the Costing & Charging, which is necessary for the control and strategic adjustment of the IT of range among other things.  These information wins due to present paging in the IT to the e-Business increasingly in importance, whereby the IT becomes a component of the business models.

Costing & Charging is a crucial step of that so far more technically aligned IT Costing & Charging to an instrument, with which more transparency into the computing center and into the enterprise-far data processing one brings.  Our company uses its experience from Workshops, installations and customer discussions to develop the product further Valuemation permanently.