Financial Services

In times of increased cost awareness IT Financials are gaining in importance and draw more and more management attention. IT Manangers, already fully loaded with technical and organisational tasks, see themselves increasingly confronted with financial tasks. Topics like Budgeting/Forecasting, Service-Outsourcing or SLA Reporting are becoming an integral part of today's  IT management agenda.

Before the background of scarce managment ressoources and a high level of IT complexity, gaining transparency and insight into IT financials can be very challenging. This threatens the quality of decision making in IT.  aicooma responded to this challenge with its financial Services initiative:

aicooma financial Services supports your business in the following areas:

Outsourcing

  • Make or Buy Analysis/calculations
  • Business process analysis & Documentation
  • Market screening and Benchmarking
  • RfI, RfQ and RfP support
  • SLA Engineering: Definition of Service Levels,
  • SLA design

SLA & Contract audits

  • Review & Analysis of current contracts/SLAs
  • Recommendations on contract/SLA changes and  ammendments.
  • Contract design
  • IT-legal capacities (associate lawyer)

 

Reporting

  • Review & Analyis of current reporting
  • redefinition of KPIs
  • Best Practice recommendations reporting
  • Definition of reporting Guidelines
  • KPI benchmarking (via specialized Partners)
  • Integrating Reporting into the PDCA cycle

Cost analysis

  • customized costanalysis
  • Service costing
  • customized total costing concepts (TCO, AEC etc.)
  • profitability analysis

 

aicooma financial Services are availble in two modes of cooperation

  • project based

    aicooma financial Services supports your business with concrete project-based services, from clarifying the contract and expectation up to the presentation of results and follow ups.
  • concurrent support

    aicooma financial Services supports your business with financial and accounting know-how on an ongoing basis.

Benefits

  • Increased cost transparency
  • Enhanced decision making
  • Financial and IT-know-how combined
  • Cost reduction, increased productivity
  • Increased Management capcities (reduced workload)
  • Industry- & Best-Practice experience