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by deborah crane

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My company wants to develop two to three scenarios, for various size fictional companies, which would use realistic numbers and demonstrate how our product can reduce their TCO for IT assets.

I have investigated the Gartner TCO Alliance and though it is thorough it really does not fill the niche we are looking for. I found another one from Alinean; which seems to fill the niche, but they carry it so far that the price becomes prohibitive.

We just want (without reinventing it if possible) a straight forward TCO Calculator for IT asset ownership that we can license to use for our internal purposes as well as creating the scenarios mentioned above.

Searches on the WEB yield hundreds of white papers written on TCO, yet finding a tool has proven to be a challenge.

So, that is my question:

Does anyone know of such a tool?

Many thanks for your time!!

Deborah Crane

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by cdworkis

Hi Deborah,

You might want to look at a link on www.citrix.com called the ACE cost analyzer. It's a TCO calculator that focuses on thin-client server based computing by default, but if you change some of the defaults you can analyze just about anything.

Hope that helps,
Charlie

by ivan mcphee

Hi Deborah,

WCG Ltd. (www.winslow-consulting.com) has a tool known as WCG e-Valuator which is used to calculate TCO, IRR, NPV, and ROI for IT assets. We use it for justifying (1) capital expenditure based on the savings of technology replacement;(2) outsourcing justification; (3) justifying investment in business continuity solutions; and (4) systems consolidation. For you more information check out the website or email evaluator@winslow-consulting.com.

Best Regards,

Ivan McPhee

by deborah crane

It took many hours of searches and reading, but I finally found three tools in addition to the Gartner tool.

Ivan I looked at the WCG tool... very in depth! They are actually borderline competing with us, so I'll skip them.

The one I am going to recommend is ROInow from CIOview. It is reasonably priced and seems to fill our needs.

Another which is probably an ourstanding product, but is quite pricey is from Ailean called ROI Analyst.

The third was priced right, but technically they are a bit behind the curve. Caseview from HMC.

Thanks for the two replies. Perhaps this message will help others who may be looking for the same thing.

Deborah

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