Gaining control over spiraling IT costs is one of your company's most difficult challenges. Today's changing computing landscape may include multiple platforms, new technologies, distributed applications and an increasingly diverse user community. How can your IT organisation track and control costs in this complex, mixed environment? The answer is here: SAS IT Charge Management.

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Working in concert with SAS IT Resource Management, SAS IT Charge Management provides an enterprise solution for tracking and managing IT costs. Utilising the latest in software technology — an open architecture, client-server design, portability across multiple platforms, and a graphical user interface — IT Charge Management is flexible, powerful, easy to use and easy to maintain.

Use SAS IT Charge Management to:

• Allocate IT resources to particular business cost centers.
• Apply different charge rates.
• Employ your own billing schemes.
• Supply users with a quick and easy way to audit and manage IT resource use.
• Provide IT with a quick and accurate response to billing and auditing inquiries.
• Offer invoice and costs reporting in multiple currencies.

Using the comprehensive data warehousing capabilities of SAS IT Resource Management, SAS IT Charge Management provides you with chargeback data from diverse computing environments. And because it integrates data from your internal systems into the warehouse, your IT organisation doesn't waste time tracking down changes and searching multiple systems to answer routine questions.

SAS IT Charge Management enables you to implement whatever chargeback methodology best fits your environment. You can mix chargeback methodologies, and chargeback items can be selected at your discretion and identified using your site-specific standards.

For reporting, SAS IT Charge Management offers AccountView — a facility that takes the guesswork out of determining IT usage within your company. Your IT organisation, executive management and end users will have access to user-defined and ready-to-run reports. In addition, AccountView offers standard reports including charge item lists, charge by customer (summary and detail), charge by item, charge by shift, and top 10 divisions by charge.

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