One of the fastest growing trends in IT management is the need to align IT and business services and to create more transparency in IT cost management. SatoriAnalytics automates the metering and analysis of IT data center and infrastructure costs, enabling IT managers to accurately measure usage by application, server, or business unit and provide detailed accounting for budget planning, analysis, and chargeback.

Automating the Cost Transparency Process

Managing and analyzing the financials of IT operations can be a complex, time consuming, and manual operation. SatoriAnalytics automates much of this process by measuring the actual capacity used, aligning this to IT costs, and creating a detail resource allocation and chargeback report that enables IT to align IT costs with business requirements.

With the SatoriTech solution, IT can:

• Compare costs and capacity across a wide range of architectures.
• Model and track fully loaded infrastructure costs.
• Create an IT bill of services.
• Benchmark and model IT costs for budgeting and forecasting.

Benefits of the SatoriAnalytics Approach to IT Accounting

The key to accurate IT cost analysis is to understand how data center resources are used, identify businesses that are using the resources, and determine the fully-loaded cost of IT services. SatoriAnalytics provides patent-pending technology that measures and meters capacity and integrates with financial data to provide detailed accounting of their IT costs.

• Model and track fully loaded IT infrastructure costs, including hardware, software, labor, facilities, energy, and support costs. In addition, detailed assessments on energy costs, enable IT to manage and chargeback for energy usage based on actual capacity consumed by business unit or application.
• Cloud metering and accounting, enables IT to create a bill of service based on actual IT services consumed. SatoriAnalytics calculates the resource units consumed with a proprietary alogorithm thaking into account CPU, memory, and storage I/O resources for each server. Similar to an electricity meter, SatoriAnalytics measures and records capacity as it is consumed. It integrates accounting system data and provides a detailed bill of IT services.
• Benchmarking IT costs for budget and forecasting by analyzing the cost per installed resource unit, consumption of capacity by each application and user, and empirical data of consumption over time, IT can match costs accurately to business unit use and then measure how actual usage corresponds to budgeted allocations.
• What-if scenario planning to compare the financial and CO₂ emission impact between different server hardware and software options, to model the impact of IT cost changes and new application deployments on individual business units.