Change the IT conversation from Cost to Value and Risk
Mainframe
Distributed Computing
Virtualisation
Cloud
Emerging Digital

A traditional ledger does not provide the IT Financial insights that today’s CIOs need, forcing them to make decisions in the dark
Common IT decisions
Additional
metrics
required...
Offshoring,
Vendor sourcing
TCO & Unit Cost of
IT Functions and
IT Assets
Cloud
(Iaas, PaaS)
TCO & Unit Cost of
IT Infrastructure components
Cloud
(SaaS),
Blockchain
TCO of Services
Investment/Exit of Products or
Business Units
True cost of servicing
Products or Business Units
Generating these IT Financial metrics on an ad-hoc basis is increasingly difficult and time consuming
The complexity of dozens of vendor commercial models, dozens of infrastructure architectures and complex operating models make excel an unsuitable option.
Learn how ad-hoc Excel based modelling risks millions of capital investments
While other alternatives exist, they are also poorly equipped to handle the complexity
CostLens© is a state-of-the-art IT Cost Modelling Engine with pre-built cost algorithms that aligns to industry-standards and offers a ready-suite of Best Practice IT Cost Reports
Chart of Accounts
Storage
Service Catalogue
Network (optional)
Software Assets (optional)
Staff / Timesheet (optional)
technologies to display easy to
understand reports
CostLens offers businesses operating in a complex environment with a consistent, standards-based decision framework to manage costs and maximise returns on IT expenditure

Manage your IT costbase and
demonstrate effective cost control
Today’s IT organisations are globally dispersed, operating
hybrid IT Infrastructures and multi-vendor global sourcing
models. CostLens allows you to easily manage your
costbase despite this complex landscape.

Demonstrate value to stakeholders
CostLens offers a suite of 100+ out-of-the-box Best Practice reports that demonstrate value to senior stakeholders.

Drive cost efficiencies to fund innovation
Easily align costs to common industry standards for benchmark analysis, in conjunction with several other techniques to optimise costs.
Generate accurate financials for all your IT investment cases
Investment in IT requires complex metrics such as TCO of Applications, fully-loaded like-for-like comparisons, etc – metrics that are often poorly modelled. CostLens eliminates the guesswork from these decisions
Embeds a data-driven, continuous cost discipline culture
CostLens offers a suite of 100+ out-of-the-box Best Practice reports that demonstrate value to senior stakeholders
CostLens is the only tool that uses a big-data engine to enable end-to-end cost analytics that is critical to isolate cost problems
The uniquely designed ‘SplitLink’ framework is aware of cost metadata and automatically builds end-to-end cost relationships at a low level of detail. This helps isolate and drill down on problem areas easily.

A case study on how a leading Financial Services firm implemented a consistent IT Cost framework across all its entities in Europe
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Knowledge base
IT Cost Management for the ‘New Normal’ inspects how leading CIOs are managing IT costs in a post-pandemic environment