| Born in Sydney Australia, ClearCost is the result of over 20 man years of development. Its founders came from the front line of IT management in banking, manufacturing and professional services, environments that demanded rigorous accountability which simply could not be delivered with the available systems. ClearCost was designed by IT professionals to solve the problems of IT professionals.
Financial Integration
ClearCost integrates the Service Financial Management processes of IT groups and presents unique, relevant analysis on all aspects of the IT investment.
IT Budgeting/Re-forecasts (what we spend)
Operating, capital and headcount budgeting & actual spend (alternatively supports import or export to and from finance systems)
Activity & Capacity Catalogue (what we do)
Through 'activity based costing', ClearCost maps budgeted resources/external costs & indirect costs to activities performed and capacity generated
Service Catalogue (what we deliver)
This is the business view of what IT delivers underpinned by the Activity & Capacity Catalogue (IT Service Costing & Pricing)
Usage and Demand (who uses what)
ClearCost marries the usage demand to services
Asset Capacity (what the technology generates)
The operational view of physical (or virtual) assets, their capacity and what services depend on those. A simple CMDB or integrated to your existing CMDB.
Contract Management (external obligations)
Contractual arrangements and management of those, (eg Maintenance or Lease contracts), linked to budget and to assets where relevant.
General functionality of ClearCost:
- Multi-user
- Security to the Cost Centre and Account Code level
- Intuitive user interface (finance made accessible to IT)
- Data importing for client tables & base data setup (e.g. Chart of Account codes, cost centres)
- Data exporting to various Financial Accounting systems
- Templates of different Operational & Service-models for quick start (including ITIL framework)
- Extensive range of reporting, charting and data extraction
- Online Help
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