Accounting & Chargeback

Help your CIO gain cost transparency and accountability over IT spending with tools that correlate resource utilization to IT costs.

Effectively accounting for IT investments and costs and being able to chargeback (or simply showback) costs to different business units has always been a CIO’s challenge. The rapid adoption of shared and virtualized infrastructures magnifies this challenge, as it requires moving from a simple fixed or allocation models to more complex, utilization-based models. Therefore the ability to continuously collect and process utilization data related to all components and services is a key requirement. And so is the ability to automatically generate accounting and chargeback reports for customers, business units, applications and services and to make them easily accessible.

Caplan for Accounting & Chargeback

Caplan for Accounting & Chargeback leverages the data collection and processing foundation provided by Caplan to support users to effectively implement an IT Financial Management process.

Caplan provides:

  • Cost Analytics:  specifically designed IT cost and forecast analysis across all operational metrics (e.g. server, storage, networks, facilities and others) based on flexible resource assignments at different levels (e.g. customers, business units, applications and services)
  • Cost Transparency: total visibility and accountability of usage and allocation of physical and virtual resources to applications and business unit cost centers
  • Cost Modeling:  support for any cost types (e.g. capital/operational, direct/shared, fixed/variable), flexible cost models, such as fixed-rate, allocation-based, utilization-based cost models or any combination of those, and multiple chargeback hierarchies
  • Cost Simulation: support for what-if scenarios to simulate the potential impact of new cost models on chargeback outcomes
  • Cost Reporting: automated reports for accounting and chargeback published on customizable dashboards