Our Web-based Bill of IT is easily deployed across organizational and geographic boundaries to create a single, unified, comprehensive global chargeback or showback process. Bill of IT is delivered on a scheduled and automated basis each month to provide Business Managers at all levels in the organization a detailed invoice of the cost and value of the IT services they consume. To further highlight the scalable and automated nature of our solution, many of ComSci's clients deliver consumption details to each employee within the firm for the services they consume - this not only provides cost-control awareness and behavioral changes at the employee level but fosters an environment where the business units become partners with IT to ensure IT services are more effectively and efficiently consumed.

Enhanced Financial Governance - SaaS or Outsourced

Our Bill of IT with Line Item Details supports a major initiative within the Financial Management process of ITIL V3 - to provide information that allows Business Units to manage their consumption and demand of IT Services. ComSci's scalable production process, delivered as either a "self-service" SaaS solution or an outsourced production support service provides IT and Business Unit Manager's with the information necessary to effectively understand and control consumption. This provides an IT Financial Governance process with effective costing disciplines and providing visibility" that can influence changes in consumption patterns to better utilize IT assets.

Utilizing our solution, business unit managers will have the information to better understand how user demand for IT drives consumption and costs in their units. This information will assist the business in forecasting their future needs more accurately, track and manage usage, and make more thoughtful choices. Also, once Business Managers understand what they are paying for, their focus quickly changes. Instead of asking "Why are my workstations so expensive?" they change their emphasis to "What technology do we need over the next 12 to 24 months to maintain our competitive edge?"

Demand-based Budgeting and Forecasting

A critical component of any budget and forecast process is to understand the demand and business plans of the organization you are supporting. This is most prevalent in all IT organizations. IT cannot develop a budget in a vacuum - they need to understand the initiatives being set forth by each of their internal clients to effectively develop a budget to support those requirements. To facilitate that process, ComSci provides demand-based planning and forecasting. Business Managers can easily and quickly assign their consumption requirements providing IT with the needed planning metrics to set forth their IT Services budget and forecasts. Our demand planning capabilities allows for multiple versions of the budget or forecast based different business assumptions enhancing IT's ability to determine budget and forecast impacts based on each associated business plan assumption.

More Effective Decision-making

With ComSci, business units are provided with management reporting and configurable dashboards that will illustrate their consumption and spending by end-user products, applications, and projects enabling more effective decision-making between costs and service levels. The goals of effective consumption management are twofold: optimizing and often reducing the quantity of IT products the business consumes - with an eye toward cutting overall costs - and changing the mix of IT spending to focus more on lower-cost products and higher-value investments. With our Bill of IT with Line Item Details based on actual IT usage, the business can begin seeking ways to control and reduce consumption.