Press information 2011
Augsburg, October 27, 2011 – Cost Xpert Tool Suite convincing with facelift and innovative features
The new version of the Cost Xpert Tool Suite impresses with versatile customer- and practice-oriented features and new services. The market leader for methodology-driven estimation sets new benchmarks in the field of IT industrialization and brings about continuous transparency and active controlling for the optimization of your IT along the entire value chain – just like in factory production. The goal is a holistic support from business and IT processes to the lasting efficiency increase of enterprises. ”suCXess“ appears as a web-based application in the first quarter of 2012.[more]
Bonn, October 13, 2011 – T-Venture invests in Cost Xpert, the solutions provider for the systematic cost estimation of IT/software projects
T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom’s venture capital company, invests in Cost Xpert AG. The core competency of the Augsburg-based innovative solutions provider is the systematic cost estimation of IT/software projects. The company’s unique expertise has brought about a paradigm shift in IT and, as is the case in the production sector, facilitates integrated IT industrialization. The investment allows the solutions provider, active in the market since 2007, to create additional services to cater to the significant increase in demand, especially over the last two years. [more]
Augsburg, October 05, 2011 - Cost Xpert takes IT into the industrial age
Cost Xpert offers a comprehensive portfolio of services for IT procurement. Due to the unique expertise - the IME (Integrated Methodology driven Estimation) - this innovative company is able to support the IT procurement process from the IT sourcing strategy to the supply chain management. The objective of Cost Xpert is to establish a continuous industrialized sourcing process for IT services. In the IT/software sector, “purchasing via catalog” will also be possible in the near future. In the course of a contract award by an established automotive manufacturer, Cost Xpert has already successfully proven its unique expertise. [more]
Augsburg, September 01, 2011 – Cost Xpert extends its product/service portfolio to IT procurement
The world market leader in the field of methodical cost estimation extends its product/service portfolio to IT procurement. In order to efficiently support IT procurement personnel in the economic acquisition process Cost Xpert developed an innovative training curriculum resulting in competent know-how transfer to these IT purchasers. The trainings' objective is to provide the participants with a methodology that enables them to systematically evaluate a proposal for plausibility and reasonableness, in a quick and easy fashion, even without specific IT knowledge. This empowers the procurement personnel to negotiate with its IT service providers with substantive and quantitative arguments based on industry benchmarks. [more]
Berlin, July 19, 2011 - Cost Xpert will present at this year’s conference for »IT Transformation« in Berlin
Cost Xpert gives a presentation for the first time at the leading European IT conference of Marcus Evans and serves as a sponsor. Marcus Evans, the producer of high quality live business events, organizes the 9th IT conference about the contemporary issue »IT Transformation« from September 27th to September 28th in Berlin. On the basis of the presentation »Supporting IT Strategies and Transformation by methodology-driven benchmarking«, Cost Xpert will introduce the benefits of methodology-driven estimations in the field of »IT Transformation«. This event provides an interesting platform for CIOs and executive IT manager to inform themselves and discuss about the current changes, challenges as well as potentials in the field of transformation processes concerning the company related IT. [more]
Augsburg, July 18, 2011 - Membership of Cost Xpert AG in GPM – the German association for project management
Since June 1 Cost Xpert is a member of GPM, the German association for Project Management. With more than 5,800 members, GPM represents the largest network for project managers in Europe. The objective of the non-profit association is to promote and develop project management. Therefore, the membership with GPM enables Cost Xpert, the worldwide leading provider of solutions and services of methodological IT cost estimation, to present sustainable solutions and standards in the field of IT estimation on a competent platform. [more]
Augsburg, March 31, 2011 - Cost Xpert extents its training options with a special method training to estimate on a business case basis
To support the business side efficiently with the estimation of effort in their IT-projects at an early stage, the world leader in integrated methodology driven estimation offers special trainings in the field of the sizing method Use Case Points. The objective is to reach reliable and realistic results of time, effort and costs on the base of business cases. Cost Xpert’s customers are able to reach comprehensive security in planning and sustainable competitive advantages. [more]
Augsburg, February 03, 2011 - Estimation Guidelines ensure high quality estimates
For the first time, Cost Xpert makes individual and general Estimation Guidelines available for its clients. The objective is to establish a standardized and systematic estimation procedure to ensure a person-independent and replicable assessment of reliable high-quality results. The clients of the world leading company in Integrated Methodology driven estimation (IME) are able - with the help of various guidelines - to estimate their versatile IT projects quickly, easily, safely and reliably, even without specific knowledge about estimation techniques. [more]
