OVERVIEW

TCOnow! for ERP and CRM

Do you need to quickly and painlessly analyze the technical and financial alternatives of a SAP, Siebel or PeopleSoft project on Windows/Intel or UNIX? What would it cost to migrate an existing Siebel, PeopleSoft or SAP environment to a new hardware or software platform such as Microsoft Windows? What is the effect of running a SQL Server database? See how different risk strategies can change your system architecture and overall cost.

These questions are important whether you are acquiring a new system or adding functionality to an existing one. Regardless of the magnitude of your project, TCOnow! will quickly help you answer all your questions regarding deploying Siebel, SAP or Peoplesoft on Windows Server 2003, AIX, Solaris, or HP-UX. Despite the potential complexity of an ERP analysis TCOnow! will always deliver an automatically generated 50+ page business case report with documented assumptions and a financial primer.

TCOnow! for ERP and CRM makes your analysis painless and timely because it contains a sophisticated system configuration engine and hundreds of default answers. By answering as few as 20 questions you can rapidly generate your costs for:

Once you have reviewed you basic cost comparison you can drill-down and change any of the assumptions such as utilization rates, partitioning, clustering, and even down to the level of the cost of power for the servers you have selected!

IT and Financial Professionals needing a detailed and well-documented analysis can:

• Select from 5 server consolidation strategies, including capacity on demand
• Automatically configure an ERP/CRM deployment
• Model your capacity planning as you change your underlying growth assumptions
• Obtain the performance and pricing on more than 500 different servers
• Select from one of 17 industry groups and see the default costs for employee salaries, benefits, depreciation method and schedule, cost of capital, etc.
• See your costs change as you switch from one database vendor to another
• See system requirements change as you size based on your current or future needs
• Determine how industry warranty and support terms affect your project costs
• See how changes in your financial assumptions impact your comparison
• Change your partition or clustering assumptions and watch your TCO change

• Require a standard methodology to determine the optimal ERP or CRM solution
• Want performance and configuration data from an independent third party
• Do not have the time to build and maintain highly complex spreadsheets
• Want to do extensive "what-if" analysis that is simply not possible with a spreadsheet such as changing your financial assumptions, configuration assumptions (partitioning and clustering), downtime assumptions, etc.
• Need a very precise business case for internal selling purposes