PIReporter for Profit and Cost Centers

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Cost Analysis

 

PIReporter for Profit and Cost Centers provides integration between performance data from SMF and ASG-TMON sources and, profit and cost centers for real-world projects and applications.

 

The true benefit of computer resources to the organization's goals and bottom line is hard to substantiate without the understanding the true cost of real-world projects and their impact on on-going processes and tasks. To understand the true cost of projects, the benefit of computer and IT resources and the return on investment of different initiatives requires measures that include computer resource consumption.

 

Applying performance and cost centers' consumption of computer and IT resources helps complete the financial outlook of the organization's operations. Management can measure, analyze, plan, execute and monitor operations effectively when complete financial information is available.

 

PIReporter for Profit and Cost Centers provides project resource consumption and cost analyses that are used to calculate costs of real-world projects based on computer resource consumption. That provides management and administrators with the ability to compare projects, spot trends and plan for future needs based on project requirement predictions.

 

Other benefits provided by PIReporter for Profit and Cost Centers include:

· Data collection from different performance sources, integration and archiving for project resource consumption.

· Off-loading performance data storage and analysis to a non-critical platform

· Analysis applications that allow users to author reports without IT support

· Historic comparisons using a standard frame of reference

· Proven methods for project classification and resource data integration

 

Additional features and highlights include:

· Advanced entity selection-date, project, name pattern/exclusion lists

· Multiple summary levels-project, date, time interval

· Measure analysis-CPU/response time, database storage, transaction count

· Period comparison-tab and graphic display for trend analysis of project resource consumption and cost

 

 

 

 

 
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