ClearCost Consulting

Running IT as a business

We specialize in working with the IT management team and their business counterparts to affect a shift to a commercial style of IT management based around the use of ClearCost, the software product revolutionizing IT financial management.

Tangible deliverables include:

incorporation of specialized IT service costing into the client's budget process and financial management methods
best practice in chargeback/service charging
IT Cost Management strategies
integrated budget to demand model
support for ITIL - specifically IT Financial Management
establishment of Service Catalogues as part of a broader Service Management initiative
financial frameworks for Service Level Agreements

Putting you on a sound business footing, service charging introduces the following 'desirable' characteristics:

priced service catalogue (common language between IT and the business)
choice of services
greater transparency of costs
activity based costing to underpin the calculation logic
service level agreements
accountability for end-to-end service delivery of each service.

Wrigleys

“the ClearCost tool is only half the story though..
setting up the information and learning how to best use it is crucial too ...the icing on the cake is their advice on pros, cons and best practice along the way”

Lend Lease Global Data Center (USA)

“...you go from presenting cost in the linear traditional financial summary view to a more products/services view that clearly demonstrates
the IT group’s value add to the organization. Beyond how the cost is presented, management has the added benefit of an alternative view to manage their area.”