IT Financial Management
Centralize, Simplify, and Extend IT Service Financial Management
The CA Clarity PPM for IT Governance (ITG) option, offers a single IT finance system of record that maps IT costs to services consumed, dynamically analyzes the impact due to budget changes, provides a detailed invoice for IT services, and provides an audit mechanism for all IT cost changes. For improved ongoing IT service planning, CA Clarity PPM for ITG also offers capabilities to track and monitor total cost of ownership (TCO), and report all costs and charges through recovery statements.
CA Clarity PPM for ITG ensures:
Contrast incurred costs with charged-back costs for services delivered.
Comprehensive Budgeting and Forecasting
Allows comprehensive financial planning for all IT investments, whether they are related to individual services, shared services, projects or assets. A hierarchy of investments involved in providing the service – including assets, projects and applications – is created enabling granular total cost, effort tracking and measurement of each and total cost drill-down analysis at the IT portfolio level. The ‘what-if’ analysis also allows users to create multiple financial plan scenarios, and connect them to portfolio scenarios.
Chargebacks for Increased Cost Visibility
Chargeback capabilities enable organizations to communicate and charge costs for IT services by business units. It provides visibility to all relevant stakeholders creating a stronger partnership between IT and the business in optimizing future IT expenditures. Chargebacks are presented to business units with a unified and detailed that includes a comprehensive breakdown of all project/service costs, including both labor and non-labor costs. In addition, previously collected costs can be leveraged to estimate the total lifecycle cost of a service, giving visibility into long-term service cost-of-delivery.
Invoicing and Cost Recovery Statements for Business and IT Financial Management and Review
Deliver a single invoice to the business which details all services delivered by IT. The invoice is presented in aggregate by service or other top-level investment, and business users can drill down to view the detailed charges for a given investment. Department representatives can approve or reject invoices. If changes to the invoice are required, IT can process reversal and adjustments of charges. The ability to compare cost and associated chargebacks gives IT leaders’ insight into ROI costs per service to more effectively communicate the value delivered by IT.
