Methodology expertise sustainably ensured
Do you continously want high estimation accuracy, but you have a lack of resources or are under time pressure?
Outsourcing the estimation
Cost Xpert offers the possibility to take the responsibility of the complete estimation process. Our focus as a reliable partner of our customers lies on the integrated solution-oriented support - in means of IT procurement as well as IT management. Our solution provides reliable estimations of any application with a certainity of 20 % and ensures therefore a steady estimation accuracy to our customers.
Potentials of outsourcing in IT procurement:
Plausability to support the negotiation strategy
Based on your tender documents you achieve:
- Dependable, comprehensible results about effort, time, costs, financial demands, tolerance threshold, maintenane costs, errors etc.
- Detailed presentation of costs of all activities and IT services (e.g. testing)
- Complete transparency of all requirements and their effects on effort time and costs
- Extensive KPIs to compare objectively offers and suppliers
You achieve:
- A scientific basis to argue and negotiate
- Transparency about the accuracy and feasibility of the offer
- Cost savings through succesful negotiation
Participation or performing negotiations
Naturally we support our customers in negotiation as scientific and objective consultant. Our goal is to achieve a satisfying agreement between our customer and the IT service provider.
Measuring performance of IT services
Based on the results of the plausibility check you gain:
- Standardized KPIs for measuring IT services for economic control of investments and weak point analysis.
- Extensive figures of technology, rating and IT benchmarking of e.g. production factors, providers etc.
- Figures to rate and measure quality and reliability
Potentials of outsourcing in IT-Management:
Security and transparency for optimal planning
Even in the feasibility phase the systematic support of our estimation process beginns. Reliable estimations are possible even with little customer data.
Our performances during reliable estimations:
- Defining the goals with the customer
- Determine objectively the real equivalent of the IT performance
- Analyses and simultations to create optimal realization and risk analyses
- Definition of the investment and cost plan including threshold values
- Generating project plans (time, resources) and financial plans
- Transparency over supplier and project specific cost drivers
- Result processing, coordination, declarations and avices
Possibilites to increase productivity
Based on the results of the estimation we offer extensive benchmark options and analyses for a sustainable productivity and efficiency increase of the IT management:
- Cost-benefit-analyses for all relevand hard- and softfacts
- Identification of the most efficient realization
- Benchmarking and rating of productivity factors
- Transparency and rating of potentials along the value added chaing
Responsibility for our customer's success
Our responsibility lies vertically and horizontally along our complete power spectrum: from the first idea to the implementation, integration, application, customizing, maintenance until the End of Life of a software project. This means that Cost Xpert takes over project monitoring and controll to ensure the success in "time&budget" with all its functions.
IME creates the freedom to concentrate on core competencies.
