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Serviceware Financial
Serviceware Financial is a leading software tool for the financial management of your IT and shared services. With a structured service catalog, a detailed cost-to-service-flow, and the capabilities to create virtually infinite budgeting scenarios, you can create as much cost transparency as you need.
Automated capabilities for documentation allow for simplified, tax-compliant reporting and adherence to all transfer pricing regulations. Serviceware FInancial is the easiest way to cut down on IT and shared service costs and prove to your business the true value of your services.
Transparent service costs and values
Immediate cuts to superfluous cost items
Simplified budgeting
Faster, more data-driven controlling
Automated, compliant documentation
Rapid cloud cost assessment and optimization
Provide maximum transparency for your business
Create a clear service offering for your business
Develop a transparent and flexible service portfolio as a basis for well-founded decision-making
Clarify where and how business costs are created
Avoid flat fees in your business communication and instead automatically calculate the actual consumption of IT services
React quickly and well-informed to budget challenges
Utilize continuous planned/actual control during the budgeting period in order to identify deviations early on and avoid negative consequences
Read our whitepaper and learn about the benefits of ITFM tools and IT cost transparency! Clarify and communicate business costs to all stakeholders
Set the course for cost-efficient IT services
Unravel cost drivers in detail
Leverage smart analysis tools to identify inefficient service components and continuously optimize your service portfolio
Lower operational costs
Use scenario comparisons and benchmarking to make the right decisions by e.g. comparing make-or-buy scenarios or cloud/on-premise solutions
Enable business units to cost-consciously utilize IT
Promote the cost-efficient use of IT via consumption-based accounting of services
Read our whitepaper and find out how to optimize your IT cost control. Save costs in the short and the long term!
Simplify the planning and budgeting of IT services
Avoid budget planning mistakes
Deliver reliable and comprehensive information to your cost center owners for dependable planning
Automate the budgeting process for all stakeholders
Simplify planning processes through best practice workflows
Improve efficiency with self-services for your business
Offer a centralized portal, enabling cost center owners to manage their demands, order services, and grant authorizations
Reconsider how you manage your IT budget and use our fact sheet to quickly implement future-proof budgeting
Reduced worktime for settlement from 1-2 days to just 2 hours per month
PALFINGER, a leading manufacturer of lifting solution, introduced Serviceware Financial as a tool for their IT financial management. Today, they use the solution to manage more than 30 services for over 3000 employees.
Read case studyQuick tips and tricks to get your IT financials on track with Serviceware
How to secure liquidity without compromising business critical services?
How to analyze costs of strategic partners minimizing the impact on the service portfolio?
How to evaluate strategic relevant projects within the project portfolio?
How to revise the budget during a crisis as results of savings and consumption changes?
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Plan, monitor and analyze financial performance. Dive deep and profit from self-service analyses and reporting.
Ensure seamless, digital service processes to support customers and employees across all departments
Optimally allocate resources, automatically plan routes for mobile agents, and significantly increase customer satisfaction
Wondering how that relates to your business case?
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