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Everyone knows you can’t control what you can’t measure. Yet the concept of IT Chargeback has historically been very contentious. Two trends have renewed interest in the topic:
1) IT Operations is expected to run “like a business” now, with its own P&L.
2) Infrastructure virtualization creates operational efficiencies by sharing resources but further obscures usage, and by extension costs.
As a result, industry analysts say a credible chargeback system is a critical success factor for any shared-services organization.
VAlign InsightTM, our flagship activity-based accounting enabling software, features a web portal to offer IT critical demand and usage information, an essential ingredient that enables activity-based accounting capability for cloud and virtualized services, providing IT executives, business leaders, or customers visibility into how much of the shared (virtual) cloud infrastructure resources (compute, storage, and network etc.) are being consumed, at a verifiable and realistic cost-basis.
VAlign Insight for Enterprises
Demand management is a fundamental requirement to deploying and leveraging a private cloud in the enterprise, as well as communicating the value proposition of your IT investments. So start harnessing the power of the private cloud today by adding the demand and service visibility provided by VAlign Insight.
VAlign Insight generates:
- a granular drill down of project costs to identify areas of over/under spending
- accurate reporting of internal IT costs to avoid vm sprawl
- visibility into the cost of a project e.g. rent, power & cooling etc.
- Identify over and under provisioned applications
- project pricing, mapping of projects to business groups to create user accountability
- capacity forecasting reports to anticipate future infrastructure needs
- recommended chargeback methods
Valign Insight for Cloud Providers
Understanding of operational data is key to Cloud service providers to accurately price their services as well as make the right agile cost, acquisition and vendor decisions.
VAlign Insight provides:
- visibility into service cost breakdown per customer to identify over/under priced services
- ability to add profit margins or discounts to ensure competitive pricing
- detailed usage & billing reports allowing for tiered pricing plans
- capacity forecasting and consumption trend reports to forecast demand
