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Establish accurate, fully-burdened cost structures for everything IT delivers – allowing technology leaders to ...
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The beginning of every IT financial management (ITFM) journey starts with a single question: How much does our ...
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In nearly every company that does IT financial management (ITFM), the starting point is Excel. In a way, it makes ...
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Former GM chairman Roger Smith once famously said, “If I had all the money I spent on IT back, I could have bought ...
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While many organizations are embracing IT financial management (ITFM) to optimize IT spending, the truth is that it ...
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June 10-14, 2024
Nicus is supporting the upcoming 2024 ITFMA World of IT Financial Management Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Please ...
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In this third installment on FinOps and IT financial management (ITFM), we dig deeper into the process of integrating ...
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Analysts at McKinsey estimate that companies using FinOps, a cloud financial management discipline focused on cloud ...
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The November 2023 Gartner Market Guide for IT Financial Management Tools report published, and we’re in it! Follow ...
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According to the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, we’ve reached the tipping point where the majority of ...
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Organizations looking for comprehensive IT financial management (ITFM) and technology business management (TBM) ...
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ServiceNow is at the forefront of digital transformation, with a staggering 85% of Fortune 500 companies using the ...
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If you’re an IT expert needing to learn about finance—or vice versa—this ITFM glossary of terms used in IT ...
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Technology has become a primary driver of business competition today, but as companies pursue digital strategies, many ...
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Every ITFM program has two core requirements for success: effective tactical execution and strong stakeholder ...
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Our native ServiceNow application leverages all the key capabilities the ServiceNow platform provides around workflow, ...
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As managing IT budgets grows in complexity and faces constant challenges, ITFM and TBM programs are expanding at a ...
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Original Broadcast: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 3pm ET Portfolio Financials Management is a new, add-on module in Nicus ...
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Original Broadcast: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3pm ET Guest Speaker: Jim McGittigan, Research Vice President, ...
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Original Broadcast: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3pm ET Guest Speaker: Craig Hollenbeck, Founding Partner and Principal ...
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Original Broadcast: January 21, 2021 3pm ET Speaker: Gartner Research VP Jim McGittigan Many CIOs and IT ...
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In this on-demand webinar, featured guest Gartner Associate Principal Analyst Matt Subbert discusses the changes in IT ...
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Background With 92 cost centers allocating dollars with no correlation, visibility into IT spend was nonexistent for ...
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Date/Time: Now Available On-Demand Panelists: Chris Aber, Nicus; Anja Allen, Ernst & Young LLP; Ginger Allen, ...
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Background Governor Doug Ducey has a clear vision for Arizona. He wants it to be the number one place to live, work, ...
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Date/Time: Now Available On-Demand Speaker: Martha Heller, CEO, Heller Search Associates With technology the ...
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Date/Time: Tuesday, September 15th 3:30PM ET Speaker: Anja Allen, Principal, Ernst & Young LLP As IT ...
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Date/Time: Tuesday, August 25th 3PM ET Speaker: Nan Braun, CEO, Thavron Solutions Without understanding the real ...
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Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11th 3PM ET Speaker: Bryan Morland, Partner, Proven FM TBM is a powerful framework, ...
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This blog is the third in a series of posts regarding ITFM & TBM Program Maturity. Get the full guide. Maturity ...
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According to a 2018 Gartner Survey, 85% of respondents’ IT organizations have either adopted, or plan to adopt, a ...
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This post is an excerpt from a whitepaper, authored by Nicus Chief Product Officer Amit Kumar, titled "IT Financials in ...
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This blog is a continuation of our previous post regarding ITFM & TBM Program Maturity and the People ...
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With the right forethought and execution, launching an IT Financial Management (ITFM) or Technology Business Management ...
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How do you grow an ITFM or TBM program to full maturity? This interactive webinar explains the entire process and ...
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With the right forethought and execution, launching an IT Financial Management (ITFM) or Technology Business Management ...
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In 2015, the City of Seattle Mayor saw a future driven by technology and an opportunity for the city. At the time, ...
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As organizations navigate the post-pandemic landscape, it’s becoming clear that having a successful remote work ...
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Storage costs are one of the most under-optimized areas of spend in many IT budgets today. That means there’s a great ...
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As organizations seek to become as lean as possible to survive the economic turbulence caused by COVID-19, technology ...
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Nobody knows if today’s current economic pullback will be a short-lived anomaly or a long-term struggle, although the ...
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Differences, wrong expectations, critical prerequisites, the truth about ITFM/TBM - it's all ...
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Many organizations assume ITFM and TBM to be completely different disciplines, but that couldn’t be further from the ...
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After bringing the longest bull market in U.S. history to a jarring end, the growing COVID-19 crisis is continuing to ...
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Executive Summary Frustrated by an increasingly complex and labor-intensive spreadsheet-based planning system, LifeWay ...
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In a recent Gartner survey, cost optimization was cited as the fourth most important objective of ITFM/TBM (out of 12 ...
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Implementing ITFM/TBM software is a considerable investment, which is why organizations aim for a rapid deployment to ...
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Overall interest in ITFM/TBM has grown steadily over the past several years. But in 2020, there are several trends that ...
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When faced with mandatory budget reductions, IT leaders start scouring CapEx spend in search of “nice to have” ...
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According to the 2018-19 Gartner CMO Spend Survey, Marketing departments are the top consumer of IT in most ...
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Despite today’s increasing interest and investment in digital transformation, the long-term trajectory of most ...
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Establish a firm connection between technology spend and the outcomes it enables -- supporting strategic alignment ...
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Building and maintaining credibility is a top priority for newly appointed CIOs, because the credibility established in ...
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The first, and arguably the most important, step in launching an ITFM program is to gain internal buy-in across both ...
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In a 1-hour “fireside chat,” GuideWell’s IT BMO, Ginger Allen, shared several valuable insights from her ...
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We sat down with Nick Kaliszewski, Director of IT Finance at Erie Insurance, to discuss the key inflection points of ...
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As CIO, are you and IT in a strong, offensive position? Or are you often defending or playing catch up? At Gartner ...
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In recent weeks, we've covered two crucial topics around the process of building a new showback or chargeback model: ...
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Enable more intelligent conversation around technology spend- and the value it provides - with an effective ...
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Cloud computing continues to make big promises of reduced costs, increased flexibility, and greater scalability (to ...
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There are three core phases necessary to launch a new showback or chargeback and deliver it as a bill of IT. First, ...
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We’re excited to announce a highly anticipated launch the Nicus team has been working passionately towards…a ...
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Let’s face it. As IT Finance practitioners, we love Excel. It’s flexible, familiar, predictable...it’s what we ...
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As we prepare for all the buzz at the upcoming Gartner Summit in Dallas, Texas, we can’t help but get excited ...
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As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and transformation, it’s critical that IT and ...
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It has taken me over a week to unpack my experience from the latest ITFMA conference in San Antonio. I’m grateful ...
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One of the most intimidating aspects of building a cost model is choosing your design and allocation methodology. The ...
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Informed decision-making is the core objective of IT Financial Management, and the key to delivering value. But it’s ...
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Everyone wants cost transparency. But once you have it, what's the next step? That crucial question is where ...
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Putting a showback or chargeback system in place may feel intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation ...
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You already know that cost modeling gives you transparency behind service costs. But what can you use that transparency ...
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The first step in every new cost modeling project is to create a catalog of clearly defined IT services. Your service ...
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In our recent monthly webinar, a dynamic panel discussion unfolded as experienced Nicus customers shared ...
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If you’ve made the decision or have been tasked with building a cost model, it’s likely your organization and its ...
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As IT Finance practitioners and practice leads, we can all agree that cost modeling (aka service costing) is the key to ...
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From a high-level perspective, the value of cost modeling is relatively simple: it brings full transparency to service ...
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Creating an accurate cost model to manage, measure, and bill IT services is a crucial step in organizational maturity. ...
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A common challenge we hear amongst IT Finance practitioners and practice leads is the inability to get out of the ...
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Optimize costs, deliver insight, and “run IT as a business” by implementing a cost model in your ...
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New Orleans never disappoints and neither did last week’s ITFMA event! The Financial World of Information ...
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The most trusted tool in any finance professional’s toolkit is Excel. IT Finance practitioners have been managing IT ...
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Manage IT budget, multi-year forecasts, and actuals with versioning, variance reporting, and more in real-time with ...
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Excel holds a special place in the hearts of IT finance professionals – it’s comfortable, familiar, and has a ...
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Enable your team to clearly articulate consumption and empower spending choices with the automation, influence, and ...
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Evaluate the business value derived from applications and the costs incurred to deliver them, and drive accountability ...
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Monitor cloud spend and consumption, compare product service rates, leverage cost-effective solutions, and automate ...
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Centralize project costs, react promptly when changes happen, and confidently forecast project costs and track back to ...
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The 2019 Financial World of Information Technology Conference presented by the ITFMA is just around the ...
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We are very excited to introduce Nicus 5.12, a meaningful update to the Nicus platform and suite of ITFM products. As ...
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IT organizations at high-performing companies are backed by world-class IT budgeting and forecasting processes. The ...
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Rob Mischianti, Nicus Chief Evangelist, shares the challenges organizations face when they've outgrown Excel and need a ...
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Like many other State and Local Government entities, the City of Seattle’s Central IT division was managing the IT ...
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Today’s high performing companies know data is king. However, all too often with big data comes big headaches. ...
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Here we are three weeks after the Gartner IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor & Asset Management Summit 2018, and ...
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From steering committees and goal alignment to avoiding common pitfalls and “precision traps”, there are many ...
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Successful ITFM implementation requires resources, communication, organization, and strategic and tactical ...
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IT Financial Management (ITFM) has become one of the most important initiatives for any organization. When IT can ...
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In response to a set of increasingly burdensome operational inefficiencies, a state IT agency responsible for $60+ ...
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About a month ago, I attended a phenomenal IT Financial Management (ITFM) Week in Chicago. The weather was perfect, ...
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As you begin to build your cost modeling processes, you will inevitably come across many forms of overhead ...
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There are several different IT Financial Management solutions on the market, and each offers its own area of ...
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One of the first steps in implementing a cost model and a showback or chargeback process is defining the ...
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In an effort to alleviate ongoing struggles from its legacy, spreadsheet-based planning system, a Fortune 500 insurance ...
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Over the past few years, we've heard more and more IT professionals mention "Technology Business Management" (TBM), ...
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Nicus is a Premier sponsor at the upcoming 2017 Gartner IT Finance, Procurement, and Asset Management Conference ...
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The success rate of your ITFM program increases with broad user adoption. This can be a challenge for many reasons ...
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Basic ITFM: ITFM provides allocated views of IT spend Each view is generated by separate data & processes ...
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At one time or another, most of us in IT or IT Finance have heard things like “IT is a big black hole” or “I ...
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Several of our clients have used ITFM solutions from other vendors before making the switch to Nicus M-PWR. When one ...
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