IT Financial Management

Improve financial decisions with a real-time view of spending

In today's IT departments, annual budgeting is no longer effective. Organizations need a solution that can dynamically manage IT funding in real time. Planview Enterprise offers the first complete view into IT spending, delivering dynamic, real-time visibility into the funding of projects, applications, assets, and labor. With Planview Enterprise, you can track and manage spending across IT while providing new levels of transparency into your IT finances. Leveraging a portfolio management discipline, Planview Enterprise offers a platform for improved financial decision making that enables you to answer the following questions:

• What does it cost to deliver a business service?
• How can I accurately manage chargebacks?
• What is the total cost of ownership of my applications?
• How can I enable financial regulatory compliance?
• How can I fund more innovation?

Improve Profitability by Optimizing Spending

By leveraging dynamic views of spending you can identify and eliminate low-value investments and dramatically reduce IT costs. Balance and align tactical work with strategic goals and execute comprehensive financial plans to ensure that you are spending your IT budget in the most efficient manner possible. Reveal hidden value by optimizing application portfolios and lowering maintenance costs. Improve IT performance and deliver projects and services more efficiently.

Leverage Powerful Budgeting and Forecasting Tools

Planview Enterprise allows you to manage financial data quickly and easily with real-time budgeting and forecasting tools. Dynamically compare baselines to actuals, balance funding agreements with SLAs, and perform advanced scenario planning. You can gain further financial insight into IT spending using enhanced financial dashboards, decision modeling, ranking tools, and prioritization capabilities.

Enable Financial Regulatory Compliance

Planview Enterprise provides a single, automated tool for record keeping. You can use auditable, automated workflows to track decision making, time records, and billing throughout IT. Use this information to support financial regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and SOP 98-1 while improving department accountability.

Mature Financial Management Capabilities with Proven Best Practices

Planview Enterprise is integrated with proven best practices that build process maturity and support financial compliance. Our adaptive best practices provide a providing a step-by-step guide to process improvement that is built in to your Planview solution. Improve your process maturity with a comprehensive library of best practices for budgeting, forecasting, and more.

Enhance Financial Decision Making

Improved IT financial management can dramatically reduce costs and deliver value back to the business. Leverage Planview Enterprise for a total view of your IT spending.