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Nicus IT Planning

Reduce the burden of maintaining what’s essential to spend more energy discovering what’s possible. Less Time Wrangling Spreadsheets. More Time Adding Value.

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Accelerate Your IT Budgeting and Forecasting Process

Organizations using Excel for IT budgeting, forecasting and planning face persistent challenges: manual errors, outdated data and difficulty consolidating complex spreadsheets. Traditional corporate planning tools also fall short, lacking the granular technology cost structures necessary for multi-year IT planning, real-time variance and what-if analysis and audience specific views.

Nicus IT Planning automates and centralizes enterprise IT budgeting and forecasting —empowering stakeholders to trim waste to fund innovation, govern vendor spend and accelerate decisions.

Make Decisions at the Speed of Business

Boost accuracy, eliminate spreadsheet headaches and wasting hours trying to connect aggregated numbers back to technology detail. Nicus’ high-performance modeling engine informs and accelerates IT forecasting and decision-making.

  • 24/7 real-time forecasting and rapid what-if scenario modeling lets you instantly visualize the impact of decisions on budgets and operations
  • Understand the full IT footprint and precise decision levers that connect to business goals
  • See total spend commitment and compare true costs vs. value over time with multi-year forecasting
  • Reduce uncertainty and build trust with high-accuracy predictive insights and detailed audit trails of forecast changes
  • Capture budget below the cost center and account level for more detailed forecasting and what-if scenario modeling
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Deliver Seamless IT Budgeting for the Enterprise

Build detailed IT budgets quickly and accurately with automatic line-item tagging and mapping that minimizes manual effort. Nicus IT Planning integrates directly with your general ledger to deliver defensible, real-time data and decision-making insights.

  • Consolidate validated IT cost and operational data in a detailed, centralized subledger to minimize confusion and conflict
  • Ensure transparency with detailed audit trails of all budget changes
  • Rationalize spend and expose waste with drill-down visibility into costs
  • Automatically import and map real-time actuals to quickly identify, explain and manage sources of variance
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Vendor Management

Take Control of IT Vendor Cost Management

Optimize contracts, uncover hidden savings opportunities, and avoid overpayment by unifying siloed vendor cost data in Nicus.

  • Expose redundant and underutilized contracts that drive waste in IT spending
  • Track vendor contracts and upcoming renewals to prevent surprise charges
  • Automatically map actuals to identify variance and errors in vendor billing
  • Use granular expense tracking to inform contract negotiations

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Monitor Labor Costs and Availability

Gain full visibility into labor costs, balance availability with shifting demand, and maximize predictability in workforce planning.

  • Automatically generate fully burdened labor rates across the enterprise for more accurate budgeting and forecasting
  • Optimize labor resources while factoring in supply variances like seasonality and vacancy rate
  • Plan by headcount using pre-defined roles and auto-generated financial line items

Case Study: How the City of Seattle Saved 3,000 Hours Annually with Nicus

Setup IT Projects for Success

Set Projects Up for Success

Managing projects in spreadsheets is challenging as evidenced by how many IT projects run over budget. Now with significant investments pouring into AI, accurately forecasting spend and continuously tracking budget versus actuals is essential. Nicus IT Planning provides clarity and precision, aligning projects with business goals, optimizing resource allocation, and offering multi-year forecasts to reveal true costs versus value.

  • Align projects—including AI initiatives—seamlessly with business objectives, using the ideal mix of resources
  • Gain accuracy and foresight through comprehensive multi-year forecasting
  • Prioritize initiatives based on a deeper understanding of what you can deliver
  • Stay focused on outcomes with enhanced tracking and reconciliation of project spend.

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Built on ServiceNow Solution

Integrate IT Planning with ServiceNow®

Run IT Planning natively on the ServiceNow platform. Consolidate platforms, link financial and operational data across applications, and make value-driven decisions.

  • Eliminate standalone tools and spreadsheets by managing IT costs within ServiceNow for a unified, streamlined experience
  • Get up and running faster by leveraging ServiceNow’s built-in automation, security, data integration and reporting tools
  • Provide IT and finance teams with drill-down visibility into IT spend for better decision-making
  • Scale capabilities while aligning with ServiceNow’s evolving roadmap

Benefits

IT Planning Efficiency

Efficiency

Eliminate up to 80% of labor costs associated with manual Excel-based planning processes.

Visibility

Visibility

Get instant visibility into how changes will affect every aspect of your budget.

Accountability

Accountability

Make it simple for business leaders to share responsibility for costs.

Nicus IT Planning Business Leader Dashboard on ServiceNow

How it Works

  • Create and save your annual budget
  • Automatically import and map actuals from general ledger
  • Iterate and compare multiple what-if scenarios quickly
  • Outer month forecasts automatically update for multi-year outlook

Nicus IT Planning is available in two flavors. Choose between the Nicus Private Cloud or a ServiceNow native version, fully integrated with ServiceNow.

It replaced almost 50 spreadsheets, removed a lot of manual entries and mitigated the risk of errors. It save a lot of time for us during month-end process, budgeting and re-forecasting.

Nicus Planning Customer in the Technology Industry

Features

• Collaborate on budgets concurrently
• Role-based dashboards
• Internal and external benchmarking
• Cash, ops, and revenue views

• Multiple governance view (R/G/T, supply/demand, LOB consumption)
• Run multiple forecasts concurrently with compare and versioning
• Automatic depreciation calculations for capital asset purchases
• Multi-currency support

Ready to Bring Clarity and Control to IT Financial Planning?

Forecast with confidence, align spend with strategy, and keep projects like AI on track.

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Further Resources

Datasheets
IT Planning
IT Planning

Build detailed IT budgets and forecasts quickly and accurately – allowing you to reduce effort, increase accuracy, and maximize short and long-term visibility. Download […]

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Blogs
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 sense. Excel is a […]

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Blogs
City of Seattle Gains 3,000 Hours Annually with Nicus
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 planning process (including budgets, forecasts, […]

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