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PC Refresh™ Planning & Modeling Software Tool

Reduce IT costs by optimizing your asset management strategy using Micromation's PC Refresh™ planning and modeling software tool.

PC Refresh is used by IT or Finance professionals to analyze the cost effectiveness of different asset management strategies. The PC Refresh planning and modeling software tool provides a framework to collect and input best available asset purchase and cost profiles; create different scenarios for various refreshment cycles, lease vs. buy, insource vs. outsource, cascade vs. replace; compare the cash flow, total cost of ownership and staff workload implications over 5 years.

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Features:

TCO StrategyKit Features

Potential uses:

Desktop upgraded strategies
Server consolidation strategies
Print strategies
Thin/fat client strategies
Capacity management strategies
IT service continuity strategies
Lease vs. buy strategies
Insource vs. outsource strategies

This powerful and flexible software tool provides the following features:

Include up to 100 PC asset profiles
View a 5 year forecast
Compare 5 scenarios against one another
Estimates up to 4 future technology generations
Calculates current book value
Estimates remaining useful life of technology at refreshment
Reports technology flight plan, aging, refresh schedules
Reports total cost of technology, cash flow, and budget constraints
Reports support costs, resourcing requirements and staffing constraints
Business intelligence reporting with slice & dice capability

Benefits:

TCO StrategyKit Benefits

The PC Refresh planning and modeling software tool helps you optimize your management strategy and reduce your TCO by giving you insight to the following types of questions:

How much should we budget for?
What is the impact of an accelerated/delayed refresh cycle?
Lease or buy, Insource or outsource?
What is the impact of cascading?
What is our estimated residual book value?
How much life is left in our technology?
What is the age of the deployed technology?
What technology is approaching/reached obsolescence?
What is the cost of my support activities?
How many Support FTEs are required for support?
What's our cost breakdown by scenario, customer, PC model, year etc/?

What do I get?

TCO StrategyKit Deliverables

PC Refresh planning and modeling software tool
PC Refresh training - web delivery
- PC Refresh model and methodology overview
- Entering PC profiles
- Creating scenarios
- Slice & dice reporting
- Scenario comparisons

Details:

TCO StrategyKit Details

Sample Reports

Refresh Plan	When will technology be refreshed?
Average Age of Technology	How old is the technology now or at planned refreshment?
Flight Plan	How many standard variations are we supporting?
FTEs Required	How many support FTEs are required to support this strategy?
Total Cost of Ownership	What is the total cost of technology & support?
Cash Flow	What is the cash flow required for technology and support?
Estimated Book Value	What is the estimated technology book value?

System Requirements

Microsoft Excel 2003 or above
600mb disk space
P4 Processor or faster

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