Are You Getting The Most
From Your IT Budget?


I’ve got our budgeting and forecasting down so well I can tell the business the cost of opening a new centre ahead of time.
– IT Operations Manager
Early Learning Centre Group
Better Manage the Cost & Performance of IT
When it comes to preparing the IT budget, CIOs and IT leaders often work in isolation. Cost centre managers and service owners must attempt to establish their IT budget with little capability to tie that into business strategy. Taking months to conduct, the IT budgeting process becomes misaligned with the larger goals of the organisation.
Corporate planning tools may track multi-year assets, but rarely track the detailed information that IT needs to understand what portion of their costs underpin particular products and services. When variances are provided only at a cost centre and account level, many hours are wasted digging through various data sources and matching data within spreadsheets.
The frequent issues we hear are:
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Now, ClearCost gives you a better way
ClearCost’s Budgeting & Planning solution provides IT budget owners a more accurate and agile process for IT budgeting, planning and forecasting in far less time. ClearCost automates IT planning and variance analysis, enabling IT organisations to accelerate the budget and forecast process, foster accountability of budget owners, and increase plan accuracy.
With ClearCost the budgeting process can seamlessly work in both IT Services and traditional general ledger cost centre framework, promoting better alignment of IT investment with

Budgeting with Clearcost allows CIOs and their team to better manage the cost and performance of IT.
Simplify your IT planning today, for a better tomorrow
Foster smarter spending by eliminating padding, using the savings to fund innovation
Empower the IT team to align spend with business priorities
Allows users to make informed budgeting decisions using the ClearCost methodology equipping the IT team to calculate & create their own spending plans
Budgeting
ClearCost includes operating, capital & budgeting capabilities, utilising your internal corporate budgeting system.
Forecasting
Enterprises have developed trust with ClearCost for their forecasting process based on the expertise developed over 20 years of operation.
Planning
Planning automates and accelerates the IT planning process, cultivating greater accountability, increased plan accuracy and the agility to free up funds for other initiatives.
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Are You Getting The Most From Your IT Budget?

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