Upland ComSci is designed to provide organizations with comprehensive visibility into their IT expenditures, facilitating informed decision-making and strategic alignment between IT and business goals. The platform standardizes tracking and reporting of IT products and services consumption, supports efficient budgeting and forecasting, and offers tools for cost optimization across various IT domains, including labor, vendor management, assets, projects, and cloud services. By delivering actionable insights and fostering collaboration, ComSci empowers businesses to manage IT investments effectively and demonstrate the value of IT to stakeholders.

Key Features & Benefits

• IT Cost Transparency:
  • Provides detailed insights into labor, vendor, asset, project, and cloud usage, enabling organizations to understand and manage their IT spending comprehensively.
• Comprehensive Bill of IT and Shared Services:
  • Offers consumption-based showback and chargeback capabilities, along with configurable billing delivery, to communicate IT costs effectively within the organization.
• Cloud Cost Visibility:
  • Delivers real-time reporting on the cost, usage, and demand of network, storage, and data center assets, facilitating efficient cloud resource management.
• Application, Software, and Vendor Rationalization:
  • Enables scoring, categorization, and prioritization of applications and vendors, assisting in total cost of ownership analysis and vendor consolidation efforts.
• IT Financial Budgeting and Forecasting:
  • Supports IT capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure (OpEx) planning with variance analysis, integrated workflows, approval processes, multi-year comparisons, and "what-if" scenario planning to enhance financial planning accuracy.
• Rapid Implementation:
  • Achieves ITFM/TBM success typically within 90 days, utilizing agile data transformation tools to consume source data in any format and providing powerful analytics reporting.