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the cost of IT cost transparency is a new category of information technology management software and systems that enables enterprise IT organizations to model and track the total cost to deliver and maintain the IT Services they provide to the business. It is increasingly a task of management accounting. IT cost transparency solutions integrate financial information such as labor, software licensing costs, hardware acquisition and depreciation, data center facilities charges, from general ledger systems and combines that with operational data from ticketing, monitoring, asset management, and project portfolio management systems to provide a single, integrated view of IT costs by service, department, GL line item and project. In addition to tracking cost elements, IT Cost Transparency tracks utilization, usage and operational performance metrics in order to provide a measure of value or ROI. Costs, budgets, performance metrics and changes to data points are tracked over time to identify trends and the impact of changes to underlying cost drivers in order to help managers address the key drivers in escalating IT costs and improve planning. IT cost transparency combines elements of activity based costing, business intelligence, operational monitoring and performance dashboards. It provides the system on which to implement ITIL v3 Financial Management guidelines to assist with Financial Management for IT services and is closely related to IT Service Management. == Capabilities == While specific solutions vary, capabilities can include: * Simplified or automated collection of key cost driver data * An allocation or cost modeling interface * Custom reporting and analysis of unit cost drivers, including CIO dashboards * Ability to track operational metrics such as utilization, service levels, support tickets along with cost * Bill of IT reports for chargeback or service allocation to Lines of Business * Forecast and budget tracking versus actual and over time * Hypothetical scenario planning for new project ROI analysis * Cost benchmarking against industry averages or common metrics * Self-service portal for employees to manage assigned assets 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IT cost transparency」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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