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See the Bigger Picture

Realize a vision for the future of IT that serves the goals of the business. Understand and demonstrate how resources are consumed and make IT an essential strategic partner.

Now available on Nicus Cloud and as a native ServiceNow application

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Less Time Wrangling Spreadsheets.
More Time Adding Value.

Reduce the burden of maintaining what’s essential to spend more energy discovering what’s possible.

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Boost Confidence

Find hidden sources of variance to reduce risk, increase trust and build a clearer vision for the future.

Foster Accountability

Make it simple for business leaders to share responsibility for costs.

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See What’s Ahead

Get instant visibility into how changes will affect every aspect of your budget.

Simplify Planning Today to Better
Prepare for Tomorrow

  • 01

    Stay Agile

  • 02

    Set Projects Up for Success

  • 03

    Simplify Vendor Spend

  • 04

    Clarify Labor Costs

  • Automate tasks like consolidation or line item generation to accelerate budgets and spend more time on value-add analysis.
  • Model detailed what-if scenarios on budgets and forecasts to stay ahead of the curve.
  • Boost accuracy by minimizing manual errors and understanding long-term effects.
  • Ensure projects are always aligned with business goals and delivered using the ideal resource mix.
  • Plan for the long-term with multi-year forecasts that reveal true costs vs. value.
  • Prioritize initiatives based on a deeper understanding of what you can deliver.
  • Stay focused on outcomes with enhanced tracking and reconciliation of project spend.
  • Track and forecast your whole portfolio in one place.
  • Let new cost visibility inform contract negotiations.
  • Unify siloed vendor data to stop overspend, expose redundancy and find underutilized contracts to exit or reallocate.
  • Generate fully burdened labor rates automatically, across the entire organization.
  • Prioritize fixed labor resources against growing, shifting demand, while factoring for supply variances like seasonality and vacancy rate.
  • Plan by headcount using pre-defined roles units and auto-generated financial line items.

Simplify Planning Today to Better
Prepare for Tomorrow

  • 01

    Stay Agile

    • Automate tasks like consolidation or line item generation to accelerate budgets and spend more time on value-add analysis.
    • Model detailed what-if scenarios on budgets and forecasts to stay ahead of the curve.
    • Boost accuracy by minimizing manual errors and understanding long-term effects.
  • 02

    Set Projects Up for Success

    • Ensure projects are always aligned with business goals and delivered using the ideal resource mix.
    • Plan for the long-term with multi-year forecasts that reveal true costs vs. value.
    • Prioritize initiatives based on a deeper understanding of what you can deliver.
    • Stay focused on outcomes with enhanced tracking and reconciliation of project spend.
  • 03

    Simplify Vendor Spend

    • Track and forecast your whole portfolio in one place.
    • Let new cost visibility inform contract negotiations.
    • Unify siloed vendor data to stop overspend, expose redundancy and find underutilized contracts to exit or reallocate.
  • 04

    Clarify Labor Costs

    • Generate fully burdened labor rates automatically, across the entire organization.
    • Prioritize fixed labor resources against growing, shifting demand, while factoring for supply variances like seasonality and vacancy rate.
    • Plan by headcount using pre-defined roles units and auto-generated financial line items.

Illuminate the Road Ahead

Bring rigor, speed and insight to the planning process and make sure each investment supports long-term business objectives. See how IT planning helps define the needs of your organization well into the future.

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