As IT becomes more integral to business success, companies want to manage IT costs and services like any other business asset. This requires new processes, software, and services that align IT investments and operations with business processes and metrics.

For successful IT Financial Management end-user and business requirements must be accompanied with financial analysis to ensure cost efficiency and a positive return on the IT investment. SatoriAnalytics provides a comprehensive approach to IT Financial Management:

• Metering, analyzing, and forecasting data center demand and utilization to optimize the cost-effectiveness and energy-efficiency in the data center.
• Accurate accounting and billing for IT services that provides 100 percent IT cost transparency.
• Advanced analytics for IT ROI and TCO analysis, enabling the IT and finance organizations to deliver a positive return on IT investments.

Optimizing Data Center Cost Effectiveness and Energy Efficiency

SatoriAnalytics uses patent-pending technology to monitor available and used compute capacity across a wide-range of physical and virtual systems. The ability to abstract and normalize resource usage enables IT and finance to accurately assess the true costs of IT infrastructure resources. Sophisticated demand simulation enables IT to optimize its data centers, quantify the savings of data center consolidation and virtualization projects, and ensure that its decisions meet the corporate financial and energy efficiency goals.

Accurate Accounting and Billing for IT Services

SatoriAnalytics provides accurate IT cost analysis, enabling IT to understand how data center resources are used, which businesses are using resources, and understand the fully loaded costs of those IT services. Supporting a wide-range of billing options, including usage-based chargeback, SatoriAnalytics provides a detailed accounting of fully-loaded data center costs, including hardware and software costs, personnel and support costs, energy costs, networking costs, and facilities costs. Moreover, SatoriTech enables IT to bill specific usage by application, server, or business unit. Price list modeling and optimization enables IT to easily integrate into ITIL service catalogs.

Optimizing ROI for IT Services

SatoriAnalytics provides complete insight into the allocation of IT expenses, including upfront capital investments and ongoing operating costs, enabling IT determine the right investments for its business needs. In addition, IT and finance executives can:

• Optimize the ROI of existing IT investments with scenario planning to compare the cost-benefit trade-offs of different options.
• Analyze and implement cost-effective private clouds, including the implementation of usage-based or utility-based accounting.
• Prepare the data center for outsourcing, providing a vendor neutral perspective on the most cost-effective outsourcing opportunities.
• Implement sustainability goals into the IT ROI calculating, including metrics that help IT and finance set and measure CO₂ reduction and energy cost goals for the data center.