NetQoS Allocate™

Drive Business Performance and Reduce IT Costs

What is the real cost of IT investments enterprise wide? How should infrastructure costs be allocated across business units, departments, and external clients based on usage? Is it possible to improve the accuracy in budgeting for infrastructure capacity, and to measure the payback from these investments? Allocate answers these questions by providing insight into how application, server, and network resources are used and at what cost, enabling IT and finance managers to make more informed decisions.

Allocate is an IT cost accounting solution that gives you the ability to manage and control IT expenditures. By accurately assessing and billing usage, Allocate provides greater insight into IT infrastructure costs to enhance internal awareness and instill business unit accountability.

In contrast to most IT cost management and billing solutions that are labor intensive and cost prohibitive, Allocate leverages data collected by your existing Cisco router and switch infrastructure. And it includes the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, enabling you to create sophisticated custom reports with minimal effort. Allocate delivers IT cost accounting for a fraction of the total cost of ownership of other solutions on the market.

“NetQoS Allocate provides IT with effective and targeted capabilities for modeling and planning services in terms of cost and usage. With a flexible cost structure that allows more expensive resources to be charged appropriately, NetQoS gives enterprises the information needed to accurately understand IT infrastructure costs.”

- Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates

Allocate tracks how business units use the network and the cost associated with the usage.

How Will Allocate Help You?

1. Reduced Costs

Make the most efficient use of IT resources by tracking application, server, and network usage
Know how to allocate resources based on business use

2. Enhanced IT Cost Awareness

Understand how business units are using key applications, servers, and network resources
Instill greater accountability and influence user behavior through usage-based billing reports

3. Cost-Effective IT Resource Accounting

Leverage your existing network infrastructure
Gain global coverage without deploying probes, minimizing ongoing IT support requirements

4. Flexible Reports

Customize reports for business units, geographic regions, and resources over various time periods
Assign higher costs to more expensive resources

5. ITIL^® Financial Management

Show users cost for network resources consumed
Align network cost with service levels and service catalogues

Making Sense of IT Dollars Across the Enterprise

What is the real cost of IT investments enterprise wide?
Where can IT cost reductions be made without impacting company productivity?
How can IT accurately budget resources across business units?

Allocate provides these answers and more, allowing for strategic business planning and comprehensive IT cost accounting. Aligning IT projects and resources to corporate initiatives and goals isn't always easy. Allocate creates clear connections between the two, while encouraging fiscal responsibility among end users.

Allocate Custom Reports

Allocate allows you to easily analyze and report your network usage, only seeing the information that is most important to you.

Allocate custom reports enable groupings by subnets, IP addresses, server groups, business units, and geographic regions - allowing you to view data in the ways and at the levels you need to effectively implement usage-based billing across your enterprise.

You can create reports based on:

How business units use key applications, servers, and the network and determine the cost associated with that usage
Cost by region for different server groups
Network usage for each quarter by region