4. Research and Advisory
Services for Financial
Operationso Purchase to Pay
o Research, Tools & Education
o Benchmarking
o Electronic Payments
o Annual Innovate Summit
PayStream educates and
empowers finance and
procurement professionals to
become agents of change.
8. The Black Box of IT
How accurate is our IT
budgeting and forecasting?
How does our IT spend
compare to industry peers?
How do changes to
individual IT costs affect the
business?
CFOs struggle to understand the impact of
complex IT investments
9. Unlocking the Black Box of IT
An increasing number of CIOs report
directly to CFOs
This relationship strengthens CFO’s
ability to gain insight from the black
box
CFOs are placing more strategic
focus on IT to maintain competitive
advantage
The Evolution of IT as a Value Driver
11. Understanding Your IT Spend
Current Capabilities of Enterprise Resource Planning,
Business Intelligence Tools and Spreadsheets
Customer Relationship
Management
Comprehensive IT Cost Data
(asset utilization, operational
metrics that impact labor
efficiencies, and the cost of
maintaining target service
levels)
Corporate Performance
Management
Accurate, Timely IT
Budgeting and Forecasting
Manufacturing, Sales,
Finance ERP
Actionable Technology
Consumption and ROI Data
Breakdown of IT Expenditures
into Cost Units
12. Understanding Your IT Spend
Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions provide a
common language between business units, finance and IT.
13. Understanding Your IT Spend
TBM solutions facilitate a well-informed perspective.
Improved IT decision
making
Systems replacement
Cost savings or
avoidance
Enhanced key IT
initiatives
Better accuracy and
real-time reporting
through automation
Transformation to
IT-as-a-Service
16. TBM Best Practices
IT Cost Transparency
Integrate financial, operational,
and billing data with IT asset and
operations data from your
management system.
17. TBM Best Practices
Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning
Eliminate static spreadsheets and
utilize a single system of record
designed specifically for IT.
Consider third party and cloud-
services, ongoing labor
management, service innovation,
consolidation, and retirement.
18. TBM Best Practices
Benchmarking
Benchmark the total costs of IT
products and services rigorously
against industry peers and
organizations of similar size, as
well as internally between and
across business units.
19. TBM Best Practices
Optimize for Efficiency and Performance
Integrate the total cost of IT
products with quality of service
information. True process
integration maximizes ROI and
drives down unit rates.
20. TBM Best Practices
Considerations When Selecting a TBM Provider
Does the vendor offer other non-TBM product suites that
might result in a conflict of interest or favoritism?
Is the solution cloud-based with adaptive data management?
Does the solution provide standardized cost, IT taxonomy,
and KPI model – best practice allocation and calculation logic?
Does the vendor provide third party validation?
Does the vendor adhere to best practices and methodology?