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The Bowtie Effect: Why Detail Matters in IT Financial Management

The Bowtie Effect: Why Detail Matters in IT Financial Management

In the world of IT financial management, it’s not just understanding your IT costs but the operational detail behind ...

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ITFM Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage

ITFM Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage: 3 Key Takeaways

Last month, a faulty update distributed by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crashed millions of Microsoft Windows ...

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[Datasheet] Cost Transparency

Establish accurate, fully-burdened cost structures for everything IT delivers – allowing technology leaders to ...

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[Datasheet] Public Sector Bill of IT

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[Datasheet] IT Planning

Build detailed IT budgets and forecasts quickly and accurately - allowing you to reduce effort, increase accuracy, and ...

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How You Outgrown TBM?

Have You Outgrown TBM? 4 Key Signs

The beginning of every IT financial management (ITFM) journey starts with a single question: How much does our ...

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How Much is Excel Costing you?

How Much Is Excel Costing You?

In nearly every company that does IT financial management (ITFM), the starting point is Excel. In a way, it makes ...

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4 BIG Reasons CIOs Should Care About ITFM

4 Big Reasons Why CIOs Should Care About ITFM

Former GM chairman Roger Smith once famously said, “If I had all the money I spent on IT back, I could have bought ...

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Use the Pyramid of Insights to Drive Better IT Decisions

Drive Better Investment Decisions with the Pyramid of Insights

While many organizations are embracing IT financial management (ITFM) to optimize IT spending, the truth is that it ...

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2024 ITFMA World of IT Financial Management Conference

June 10-14, 2024

Nicus is supporting the upcoming 2024 ITFMA World of IT Financial Management Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Please ...

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ITFM vs. FinOps Part 3: Challenges and Use Cases in Bringing FinOps and ITFM Together

ITFM vs. FinOps Part 3: Challenges and Use Cases in Bringing FinOps and ITFM Together

In this third installment on FinOps and IT financial management (ITFM), we dig deeper into the process of integrating ...

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How FinOps and IT Financial Management Work Together

ITFM vs. FinOps Part 2: How FinOps and IT Financial Management Work Together

Analysts at McKinsey estimate that companies using FinOps, a cloud financial management discipline focused on cloud ...

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[Gartner Research Report] November 2023 Gartner Market Guide for IT Financial Management Tools

The November 2023 Gartner Market Guide for IT Financial Management Tools report published, and we’re in it!  Follow ...

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ITFM vs FinOps

ITFM vs. FinOps Part 1: Do Companies Need Both?

According to the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, we’ve reached the tipping point where the majority of ...

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Nicus Acquires Proven FM: What It Means for IT Finance Leaders

Nicus Acquires Proven FM: What It Means for IT Finance Leaders

Organizations looking for comprehensive IT financial management (ITFM) and technology business management (TBM) ...

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Why IT Financial Management Belongs on ServiceNow

Why IT Financial Management and ServiceNow Are Better Together

ServiceNow is at the forefront of digital transformation, with a staggering 85% of Fortune 500 companies using the ...

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ITFM Glossary

ITFM Glossary

If you’re an IT expert needing to learn about finance—or vice versa—this ITFM glossary of terms used in IT ...

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Technical Debt and the Case for ITFM

Technical Debt and the Case for ITFM

Technology has become a primary driver of business competition today, but as companies pursue digital strategies, many ...

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5 Personalities Who Can Sink Your ITFM Program or Help it Soar

5 Personalities Who Can Sink Your ITFM Program or Help it Soar

Every ITFM program has two core requirements for success: effective tactical execution and strong stakeholder ...

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[Video] Nicus on ServiceNow

Our native ServiceNow application leverages all the key capabilities the ServiceNow platform provides around workflow, ...

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[Presentation] Nicus 2-Day IT Finance Boot Camp

As managing IT budgets grows in complexity and faces constant challenges, ITFM and TBM programs are expanding at a ...

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[Webinar] Product Release: Portfolio Financials Management in Nicus 6.2

Original Broadcast: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 3pm ET Portfolio Financials Management is a new, add-on module in Nicus ...

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[Webinar] Gartner Research Series: ITFM and the Move to IT Product Lines

Original Broadcast: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 3pm ET Guest Speaker:  Jim McGittigan, Research Vice President, ...

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[Webinar] Partner Insights Series: Driving Value-Add Stakeholder Insights

Original Broadcast: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3pm ET Guest Speaker:  Craig Hollenbeck, Founding Partner and Principal ...

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[Webinar] Driving Better Results with IT Financial Transparency

Original Broadcast: January 21, 2021 3pm ET Speaker:  Gartner Research VP Jim McGittigan Many CIOs and IT ...

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[Webinar] The New Normal in IT Finance

In this on-demand webinar, featured guest Gartner Associate Principal Analyst Matt Subbert discusses the changes in IT ...

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Florida Blue’s Transparency Shift with Nicus: From financial reporting to true IT management

Background With 92 cost centers allocating dollars with no correlation, visibility into IT spend was nonexistent for ...

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[Case Study] Florida Blue’s Transparency Shift with Nicus: From financial reporting to true IT management

Background With 92 cost centers allocating dollars with no correlation, visibility into IT spend was nonexistent for ...

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[CIO Dive Webinar] Accelerating Transformation in Budget-Cutting Times

Date/Time: Now Available On-Demand Panelists: Chris Aber, Nicus; Anja Allen, Ernst & Young LLP; Ginger Allen, ...

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[Case Study] State of Arizona Reinvests $16.6 Million Running Government at the Speed of Business

Background Governor Doug Ducey has a clear vision for Arizona. He wants it to be the number one place to live, work, ...

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State of Arizona Reinvests $16.6 Million Running Government at the Speed of Business

Background Governor Doug Ducey has a clear vision for Arizona. He wants it to be the number one place to live, work, ...

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[Webinar] From Cost Center to Business Partner: How IT leaders are moving the dial

Date/Time: Now Available On-Demand Speaker: Martha Heller, CEO, Heller Search Associates With technology the ...

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[Webinar] IT Financial Management (ITFM) for Product-Centric Delivery

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 15th 3:30PM ET Speaker: Anja Allen, Principal, Ernst & Young LLP As IT ...

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[Webinar] Service Value Metrics: What we should be measuring to understand real value to the organization

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 25th 3PM ET Speaker: Nan Braun, CEO, Thavron Solutions Without understanding the real ...

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[Webinar] Rightsizing TBM for Your Organization

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11th 3PM ET Speaker: Bryan Morland, Partner, Proven FM TBM is a powerful framework, ...

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ITFM & TBM Program Maturity: Technology and Data

This blog is the third in a series of posts regarding ITFM & TBM Program Maturity. Get the full guide. Maturity ...

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[Whitepaper] IT Financials in an Agile and Product-centric World

According to a 2018 Gartner Survey, 85% of respondents’ IT organizations have either adopted, or plan to adopt, a ...

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IT Financials in an Agile and Product-centric World

This post is an excerpt from a whitepaper, authored by Nicus Chief Product Officer Amit Kumar, titled "IT Financials in ...

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ITFM & TBM Program Maturity: Maturity Factor #2 – Process

This blog is a continuation of our previous post regarding ITFM & TBM Program Maturity and the People ...

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ITFM & TBM Program Maturity: Maturity Factor #1 – People

With the right forethought and execution, launching an IT Financial Management (ITFM) or Technology Business Management ...

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[Webinar] ITFM & TBM Maturity Assessment & Roadmap

How do you grow an ITFM or TBM program to full maturity? This interactive webinar explains the entire process and ...

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[eBook] ITFM/TBM Program Maturity Guide

With the right forethought and execution, launching an IT Financial Management (ITFM) or Technology Business Management ...

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[Case Study] City of Seattle Tackles IT Centralization and Gains 3,000 Hours Annually with Nicus

In 2015, the City of Seattle Mayor saw a future driven by technology and an opportunity for the city. At the time, ...

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[Case Study] AmFam Uses Nicus to Elevate IT Intelligence & Business Planning

Sparked by an ongoing quest for reliable data to guide profit and growth planning, and a never-ending backlog of ...

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3 Simple Rules to Manage Remote Work Effectively

As organizations navigate the post-pandemic landscape, it’s becoming clear that having a successful remote work ...

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How to Reduce Storage Costs by Right-Sizing Consumption

Storage costs are one of the most under-optimized areas of spend in many IT budgets today. That means there’s a great ...

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3 Best Practices for Short-term IT Cost Control

As organizations seek to become as lean as possible to survive the economic turbulence caused by COVID-19, technology ...

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4 Recession Survival Rules for CIOs & IT Leaders

Nobody knows if today’s current economic pullback will be a short-lived anomaly or a long-term struggle, although the ...

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[eBook] Dispelling the 8 Biggest ITFM & TBM Misconceptions

Differences, wrong expectations, critical prerequisites, the truth about ITFM/TBM - it's all ...

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ITFM vs. TBM: The 1 Key Difference

Many organizations assume ITFM and TBM to be completely different disciplines, but that couldn’t be further from the ...

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How ITFM/TBM Offers Guidance Through Economic Turmoil

After bringing the longest bull market in U.S. history to a jarring end, the growing COVID-19 crisis is continuing to ...

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[Case Study] LifeWay Boosts Efficiency & Gains 3 Key Strategic Benefits with Nicus IT Planning

Executive Summary Frustrated by an increasingly complex and labor-intensive spreadsheet-based planning system, LifeWay ...

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LifeWay Boosts Efficiency & Gains 3 Key Strategic Benefits with Nicus IT Planning

Executive Summary Frustrated by an increasingly complex and labor-intensive spreadsheet-based planning system, LifeWay ...

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6 ITFM/TBM Software Pitfalls That Impede Long-term Value

Implementing ITFM/TBM software is a considerable investment, which is why organizations aim for a rapid deployment to ...

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5 Trends That Make ITFM/TBM Critical for 2020 Success

Overall interest in ITFM/TBM has grown steadily over the past several years. But in 2020, there are several trends that ...

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3 Reasons ITFM/TBM Budget Cuts Sabotage Future Gains

When faced with mandatory budget reductions, IT leaders start scouring CapEx spend in search of “nice to have” ...

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The 3 Biggest Obstacles to CIO-CMO Alignment

According to the 2018-19 Gartner CMO Spend Survey, Marketing departments are the top consumer of IT in most ...

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5 Reasons Digital Transformations Fall Short

Despite today’s increasing interest and investment in digital transformation, the long-term trajectory of most ...

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[Datasheet] Advanced Cost Transparency

Establish a firm connection between technology spend and the outcomes it enables -- supporting strategic alignment ...

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3 Simple Credibility Tips for New CIOs

Building and maintaining credibility is a top priority for newly appointed CIOs, because the credibility established in ...

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How to Secure ITFM Program Buy-in with a Solid Business Case

The first, and arguably the most important, step in launching an ITFM program is to gain internal buy-in across both ...

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Customer Insight: 3 Key Takeaways from GuideWell’s Path to ITFM Maturity

In a 1-hour “fireside chat,” GuideWell’s IT BMO, Ginger Allen, shared several valuable insights from her ...

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Customer Insight: Erie Insurance’s Cost Transparency Journey

We sat down with Nick Kaliszewski, Director of IT Finance at Erie Insurance, to discuss the key inflection points of ...

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IT Leadership: Are You Playing Defense or Offense?

As CIO, are you and IT in a strong, offensive position? Or are you often defending or playing catch up? At Gartner ...

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6 Rules for Long-term Showback or Chargeback Success

In recent weeks, we've covered two crucial topics around the process of building a new showback or chargeback model: ...

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[eBook] How to Produce an Effective Bill of IT Using Showback or Chargeback

Enable more intelligent conversation around technology spend- and the value it provides - with an effective ...

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5 Unexpected Cloud Costs to Consider Before Migration

Cloud computing continues to make big promises of reduced costs, increased flexibility, and greater scalability (to ...

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3 Bill of IT Execution Strategies for Showback or Chargeback

There are three core phases necessary to launch a new showback or chargeback and deliver it as a bill of IT. First, ...

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A Brand New, New Brand for Nicus

We’re excited to announce a highly anticipated launch the Nicus team has been working passionately towards…a ...

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IT Financial Management Beyond Spreadsheets

Let’s face it. As IT Finance practitioners, we love Excel. It’s flexible, familiar, predictable...it’s what we ...

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4 Ways to Win with Nicus at Gartner IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor & Asset Management Summit

As we prepare for all the buzz at the upcoming Gartner Summit in Dallas, Texas, we can’t help but get excited ...

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Showback vs. Chargeback: Which Should Drive Your Bill of IT?

As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and transformation, it’s critical that IT and ...

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4 Key Takeaways from ITFMA ’19 San Antonio

It has taken me over a week to unpack my experience from the latest ITFMA conference in San Antonio. I’m grateful ...

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5 Ways to Drive IT Budget Accountability & Collaboration

In many organizations, there’s a problematic disconnect between IT Finance and the rest of the business, especially ...

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Choosing a Cost Model Design & Allocation Methodology

One of the most intimidating aspects of building a cost model is choosing your design and allocation methodology. The ...

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[Presentation] A Roadmap to Building Value Through IT Finance

Informed decision-making is the core objective of IT Financial Management, and the key to delivering value. But it’s ...

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[Presentation] Know Your Audience: Providing Insights to Stakeholders that Create Value

Everyone wants cost transparency. But once you have it, what's the next step? That crucial question is where ...

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[Presentation] How to Implement IT Showback or Chargeback Like a Pro

Putting a showback or chargeback system in place may feel intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. This presentation ...

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5 Tangible Cost Model Use Cases & Business Outcomes

You already know that cost modeling gives you transparency behind service costs. But what can you use that transparency ...

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How to Write Airtight Service Definitions for Your Cost Model

The first step in every new cost modeling project is to create a catalog of clearly defined IT services. Your service ...

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Showback & Chargeback Best Practices – Expert Panel Recap

In our recent monthly webinar, a dynamic panel discussion unfolded as experienced Nicus customers shared ...

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3 Key Capabilities Every Service Cost Model Should Include

If you’ve made the decision or have been tasked with building a cost model, it’s likely your organization and its ...

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How to Defend and Socialize Your New IT Cost Model

As IT Finance practitioners and practice leads, we can all agree that cost modeling (aka service costing) is the key to ...

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5 Ways CIOs and IT Leaders Reap Value from Cost Modeling

From a high-level perspective, the value of cost modeling is relatively simple: it brings full transparency to service ...

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How to Overcome the 3 Biggest Challenges of IT Cost Modeling

Creating an accurate cost model to manage, measure, and bill IT services is a crucial step in organizational maturity. ...

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The Top 3 ITFM Conferences Remaining in 2019

A common challenge we hear amongst IT Finance practitioners and practice leads is the inability to get out of the ...

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[eBook] A Practitioner’s Guide to Cost Modeling

Optimize costs, deliver insight, and “run IT as a business” by implementing a cost model in your ...

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ITFMA ’19 New Orleans: Post-Conference Highlight Roundup

New Orleans never disappoints and neither did last week’s ITFMA event! The Financial World of Information ...

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[eBook] 4 Steps to a Healthier ITFM Practice Beyond Spreadsheets

The most trusted tool in any finance professional’s toolkit is Excel. IT Finance practitioners have been managing IT ...

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[Video] Nicus IT Planning

Manage IT budget, multi-year forecasts, and actuals with versioning, variance reporting, and more in real-time with ...

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[Video] Nicus Cost Modeling

Build your Service Catalog, create a Cost Model, calculate service costs, and provide data and insights to influence ...

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[Video] Nicus Bill of IT

Enable your team to clearly articulate consumption and empower spending choices with the automation, influence, and ...

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[Video] Nicus Application TCO

Evaluate the business value derived from applications and the costs incurred to deliver them, and drive accountability ...

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[Video] Nicus Cloud Transparency

Monitor cloud spend and consumption, compare product service rates, leverage cost-effective solutions, and automate ...

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[Video] Nicus Project Financials

Centralize project costs, react promptly when changes happen, and confidently forecast project costs and track back to ...

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Nicus Presents CHIP Donation Supporting Healthcare Access

The 2019 Financial World of Information Technology Conference presented by the ITFMA is just around the ...

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Full Support of TBM and Bill of IT Variance Reporting Among Top Highlights in Nicus 5.12

We are very excited to introduce Nicus 5.12, a meaningful update to the Nicus platform and suite of ITFM products. As ...

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[eBook] Corporate Planning vs. ITFM Tools

IT organizations at high-performing companies are backed by world-class IT budgeting and forecasting processes. The ...

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[Video] Break up with Excel

Have your IT Finance needs matured beyond spreadsheets? Maybe it's ...

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[Video] The Challenges of Excel in IT Financial Management

Rob Mischianti, Nicus Chief Evangelist, shares the challenges organizations face when they've outgrown Excel and need a ...

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City of Seattle Gains 3,000 Hours Annually with Nicus

Like many other State and Local Government entities, the City of Seattle’s Central IT division was managing the IT ...

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How to Do More With Your IT Finance Data

Today’s high performing companies know data is king. However, all too often with big data comes big headaches. ...

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Nicus Appoints New CEO John Clark to Lead the ITFM Charge

In last week’s Nicus News and published press release, Nicus announced John Clark as the newly appointed Chief ...

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4 Ways Corporate Planning Tools Prevent Best-in-Class IT Budgeting and Forecasting

IT organizations at high performing companies are backed by world-class IT budgeting and forecasting processes. The ...

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How AmFam Reduced TCO Analysis from Weeks to an Hour

In 2015, American Family Insurance (AmFam) launched a strategic initiative partnering Corporate Finance and ...

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Making the Leap from ITFM Reporting to Business Intelligence

Guest Post by Lauren Fulton We live in a world where anyone can become data literate and access analytical tools ...

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3 Major Takeaways from Gartner ITSV 2018

Here we are three weeks after the Gartner IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor & Asset Management Summit 2018, and ...

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Finding the Right ITFM Solution and Implementation Partner

From steering committees and goal alignment to avoiding common pitfalls and “precision traps”, there are many ...

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Key #5 to a Winning ITFM Implementation: Balance of Precision & Simplicity

An ITFM implementation can have its challenges, for example: accepting your data is “good enough” to get started ...

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[Video] About Nicus ITFM

Nicus provides IT Financial and Business Management solutions that help customers achieve IT cost transparency and make ...

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Key #4 to ITFM Implementation Success: “Good Enough” Data

Purchasing and implementing an ITFM tool, along with building a sustainable ITFM program, can feel like an ...

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Key #3 to ITFM Implementation Success: Proof of Value

Proving value of your ITFM program may not be at the top of your list of to-dos when planning and implementing a ...

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[eBook] 6 Keys to a Winning ITFM Implementation

  IT Financial Management (ITFM) has become one of the most important initiatives for any organization. When IT ...

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Key #2 to ITFM Implementation Success: Strategic and Tactical Alignment

Successful ITFM implementation requires resources, communication, organization, and strategic and tactical ...

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Key #1 to ITFM Implementation Success: Steering Committee

IT Financial Management (ITFM) has become one of the most important initiatives for any organization. When IT can ...

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[Case Study] State IT Agency Simplifies Cost Allocation to Gain Visibility and Trust

In response to a set of increasingly burdensome operational inefficiencies, a state IT agency responsible for $60+ ...

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7 Steps to Great ITFM Data

About a month ago, I attended a phenomenal IT Financial Management (ITFM) Week in Chicago. The weather was perfect, ...

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[Presentation] Managing Overhead & Shared Costs

As you begin to build your cost modeling processes, you will inevitably come across many forms of overhead ...

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[Presentation] Evaluating and Implementing ITFM Solutions

There are several different IT Financial Management solutions on the market, and each offers its own area of ...

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[Presentation] Building an Effective Service Catalog

One of the first steps in implementing a cost model and a showback or chargeback process is defining the ...

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[Case Study] Fortune 500 Insurance Firm Reclaims 2,000 Hours while Elevating IT’s Strategic Position in the Business

In an effort to alleviate ongoing struggles from its legacy, spreadsheet-based planning system, a Fortune 500 insurance ...

IT Cost Transparency Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

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TBM vs ITFM: New clothes for IT Financial Management?

Over the past few years, we've heard more and more IT professionals mention "Technology Business Management" (TBM), ...

IT Cost Transparency Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

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2017 Gartner IT Finance, Procurement, and Asset Management Conference

Nicus is a Premier sponsor at the upcoming 2017 Gartner IT Finance, Procurement, and Asset Management Conference ...

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Increasing Adoption of Your ITFM Processes

The success rate of your ITFM program increases with broad user adoption.  This can be a challenge for many reasons ...

Cost Optimization IT Cost Transparency

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Enabling Actionable Transparency Through Allocated Views of IT Spend

Basic ITFM: ITFM provides allocated views of IT spend Each view is generated by separate data & processes ...

Cost Optimization IT Cost Transparency Service Cost Modeling

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The Great Pendulum Swing of IT Cost Transparency

At one time or another, most of us in IT or IT Finance have heard things like “IT is a big black hole” or “I ...

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ITFM Tool Performance

Several of our clients have used ITFM solutions from other vendors before making the switch to Nicus M-PWR.  When one ...

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