Introduce Clarity to Your Costs


Originally, we envisioned ClearCost to be used as a forecasting tool to balance our supply and demand and essentially set prices for our services based on the input costs.
We soon discovered that ClearCost could do far more than this and ClearCost is now our source of truth for all of our costing/pricing information and has actual expenditure data from our SAP General Ledger, applied back to ClearCost each month.
In this way we ensure we always have an accurate, ‘up to date’ understanding of our financial forecast and how our individual services are performing.”
-Tony Grant, Chief Information
Officer, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries,
Queensland Government
As an IT leader, are you challenged with understanding the costs to deploy and maintain IT services?
Without clarity on the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of applications and services, IT cannot effectively plan, forecast or budget. Knowing the TCO of your IT delivery allows you to effectively manage your IT budget and communicate the value delivered to the business. Yet calculating TCO is not easy or straightfoward.
The frequent issues we hear are:
Benefits To Your Organisation
Now, ClearCost gives you a better way
ClearCost provides total transparency of IT spend for both technical and business service views, allowing organisations to make the most of their resources and investments. ClearCost empowers you to manage outcomes and look defensively at what components created those outcomes. Understand the impact of spend on service delivery and the subsequent effect on the business. ClearCost has a clear and concise technical service TCO and related business TCO – a unique feature of our software. This enables organisations to apply continuous optimisation to operational cost and invest further into future growth.
Understand and optimise the (TCO) total cost of ownership
Reduce time-to-value
ClearCost applies best-practices for service & business TCO models, IT metrics, and reports allowing you to create timely and tangible results
Generate decisions based on facts
See a clear view of service & business TCO, utilisation, and performance combined with ‘what-if’ analytics enables data-driven decisions
Increase acceptance by your stakeholders
ClearCost’s taxonomy creates trust among business and technology stakeholders
Quantify
Quantify, explain and predict IT costs
Optimise
Optimise IT data to reduce cost or reinvest newly-found funds
Plan
Automated forward looking planning tool
Data-sheet
Introduce Clarity to Your Costs

We deliver great outcomes for our clients.
Read below how companies in Private Enterprise, Public and Government have benefited from partnering with ClearCost, enabling them to manage their IT function as a business and deliver value for their whole organisation.

Goodstart ICT utilises ClearCost to boost meaningful conversations with the wider business

QLD Government Dept. of Agriculture & Fisheries Delivers Clarity to Partner Agencies
Playbook
Shaping Business Demand
