About VAlign
VAlign is a leading software development company providing solutions for managing cost and demand for Enterprise IT and Cloud Computing environments.
VAlign InsightTM is our IT Demand Management software that helps C-level executives, IT financial controllers, and IT operations to address the issues of:
- Cost Transparency – true financial transparency to find areas of over and under spending and chargeback on a realistic cost basis.
- Control – identifying utilization gaps, virtual machine sprawl or over provisioned applications and accurately forecast future capacity needs.
- Accountability - provide cost awareness at the user level, to create accountability amongst consumers.
VAlign solutions allow IT managers to discover, measure and align datacenter resources (hardware, software, labor and power/cooling, etc.), while breaking down the traditional barriers between IT and business functions.
Gartner estimates that IT budgets will exceed $3.2 Trillion in 2009, with an average of around $350 million for each the fortune 1000. However, today the vast majority of IT providers lack the ability to accurately track and manage the financial and business performance of IT. Many business functions have developed methods for measuring their performance for centuries: Sales has CRM systems, Finance has compliance GAAP reporting standards, and manufacturing has developed Activity Based Costing (ABC) systems. IT as a relative newcomer and an increasingly critical business function still relies on a plethora of spreadsheets for tracking service performance in financial business terms, a trend destined to change.