Visual Cost and Value Modeling

Digital Fuel's IT Financial Management (ITFM) platform has been built with user productivity at its core. The visual modeling environment enables customers to quickly build and customize cost models, service level business logic, quality and value rules, and more. Its intuitive interface allows users to quickly move and connect components of the model in an easy drag-and-drop fashion, as well as browse via the model to see intermediate and final results and connections.

Digital Fuel Templates

Digital Fuel's IT Financial Management (ITFM) ensures fast time-to-value and low ongoing cost of ownership for all our customers. It includes predefined models and templates to deliver best practices that dramatically increase productivity. The metadata provided by the modeling environment feeds into the platform to configure every component, creating an easy path to get started with built-in functionality or customize for special requirements.

"What-if" Scenario Builder

One of the most powerful capabilities in the IT Financial Management platform is the ability to easily put together alternate scenarios to understand the impact on cost or service levels, quality, and value. If we virtualize the servers, how much money will we save? What will be the impact of consolidating data centers? Will increasing service levels impact our ability to meet our service goals? These types of what-if scenarios are easy to build and analyze with Digital Fuel's IT Financial Management.

Pre-defined Models

Our pre-defined cost model, SLA templates, and key efficiency metrics templates deliver powerful capabilities for working with cost and service quality data allowing you to:

• Allocate direct costs to IT departments, IT capabilities/services, and business units
• Allocate indirect costs to IT services and business units by percentage, cost, usage volume, or other methods (e.g. headcount)
• Distribute unabsorbed indirect costs to business units
• Breakdown by account type, by fixed vs. variable, by CAPEX vs. OPEX
• Hierarchical organization of IT departments, IT services, and business units
• Calculate unit costs
• Calculate business SLAs by IT departments, IT capabilities/ services, and business units
• Understand root cause of potential SLA breaches
• Calculate business impact of potential SLA breaches
• Calculate an endless variety of KPIs, OLAs, value and efficiency metrics

Pre-built Templates

Pre-built templates are the ideal way to increase productivity while applying industry best practices. The industry-standard templates built into the Digital Fuel platform include:

• Cost model templates
• Utilization templates
• Usage templates
• Pricing templates
• Service level agreement templates
• Efficiency templates
• Data templates