Cost Management
More than 60% of IT budgets is still spent on day-to-day applications and systems operations. The basic task in reducing operating costs is to create scope for investment.
Major and minor projects and ongoing operations all have to be budgeted. The VMS Benchmark provides solid, “hard” figures for annual SAP planning. And since our Benchmarking works automatically, you’re also saving time.
Budget figures are IT’s communications level with company controlling. But how can you communicate ? Why are certain services expensive and others not ?
This is precisely what the VMS Report shows. The methods it uses create the link between IT processes, business processes, and their costs, and it suddenly becomes easy to show why certain services cost what they do. The arguments become even more powerful after a VMS benchmarking versus best practice.
Of course, every properly managed company has created processes by means of internal controlling to keep costs down. But while internal controlling looks inward, you still need to know how the market has developed. Are the cost developments that people are talking about relevant to your company ? What savings options can you implement in the short-term ? And which ones can you implement over the medium-term ? And how about for the long term ? Only a comparison with the best – the Benchmark – can really help you decide that.
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