In today's rapidly changing IT landscape, how can enterprises manage the true cost of distributed computing?

TCO Manager for Distributed Computing is the industry's first software tool that provides IT decision support for modeling, analyzing and improving your TCO.

What Will TCO Manager Do For Me?
TCO Manager helps you understand three basic scenarios concerning the total cost of ownership of your distributed-computing environment: Where am I? How do I compare? Where can I go? The software allows you to input your actual cost data, to compare your actual data to a typical environment based on your company profile and to create and explore proposed scenarios or targets based on a number of variables such as changes to technology, complexity factors and best practices.

How Does TCO Manager Work?
Following the GartnerGroup TCO Model, the software uses asset, cost, service-level and IS performance data to calculate and develop actual TCO reports, develop a typical comparison, and explore an optimal TCO target.

With the TCO Manager software, you can assess and track TCO over time to drive continuous cost reductions and improvements in value from IT investments.

TCO Manager Features
This powerful and flexible software tool provides the following features:

• Compare your actual TCO to a typical TCO as defined by GartnerGroup research. The typical TCO reflects your company type, size, worldwide location, assets, technology and complexity.
• Audits the results to highlight strengths and weaknesses in your TCO .
• Allows you to create a proposed environment based on improvements to assets, technology and complexity, and to compare the target TCO with your actual TCO.
• Provides simulation on the costs and benefits of improvement plans for return on investment analysis.
• Moves beyond costs to include headcount, activity-based costing, performance metrics and service-level comparisons.
• Contains the TCO index^TM, a database of TCO metrics combining industry data and research from GartnerGroup.

TCO Manager Benefits

• Gain an understanding of the TCO concepts that can be applied to your particular organization.
• Explore various scenarios, taking into account variables such as changes in organization, training, processes, best practices, products and architecture, in order to forecast the impact of the contemplated changes to your IT infrastructures.
• Quickly quantify a wide range of IT planning alternatives.
• Develop budgets and a credible way of justifying your IT investments in order to reduce costs and prioritize IT scenarios.
• Gain valuable insight into your strengths and weaknesses in order to pinpoint areas for improvement.
• Implement and build a decision support methodology for driving continuous reductions in your TCO and increasing the value from investments in technology.