IT Financial Management Technology Platform

Digital Fuel's focus is to take complex business problems and simplify them for our users. IT Financial Management (ITFM), our SaaS-based business application, automates the financial processes needed to run IT business management. ITFM offers an intuitive user interface and integrated technology platform that delivers fast time to value, ease of use, and low cost of ownership, enabling IT organizations to plan, bill, and optimize IT cost and value.

Proven, Web-based SaaS Platform

IT Financial Management is built on an integrated SaaS platform that is used daily by leading organizations worldwide, managing thousands of IT assets and services. The underlying technology platform delivers:

• Available anytime and anyplace: Easy-to-navigate dashboards and reports with drill-down perfect for mobile computing including iPads
• A straightforward visual approach: Our patented visual design technology offers easy-to-use, wizard-driven process builders — no coding required.
• Unlimited scalability: The underlying technology is based on a powerful J2EE-based engine with built-in high availability and reliability. In addition, the data connectors can handle a virtually unlimited number of data feeds.
• Advanced security: Our SaaS application meets the highest security standards demanded by our customers including ISO 27001, SAS70 Type II, and SysTrust. Servers are kept in a state-of-the-art facility with advanced security. All data connections are encrypted and authenticated. In addition, granular user roles and permission mechanisms control access to sensitive information.
• Cost-effective SaaS application: Our SaaS model helps our customers reduce cost of ownership and speed time to value, while achieving compliance.
• Available anytime and anyplace: Easy-to-navigate dashboards and reports with drill-down perfect for mobile computing including iPads

Innovative Technology Platform Components

Each subscription to IT Financial Management includes the following platform components:

• Computation Engines: The Cost Allocation and Service Level rule-based and mapping engines are the heart of the Digital Fuel platform. Save time and increase accuracy by automating the association of complex IT capabilities with actual costs and service levels.
• Modeling and Templates: Visual modeling and templates deliver IT Financial Management best practices to dramatically increase productivity.
• Data Collection, Correlation, Association, and Cleansing: Flexible data preparation technology automatically gathers, cleans, and associates data that is spread across disparate systems in inconsistent formats.
• Analysis: Get the information when you need it with "what if" scenarios, key IT ratios and metrics, trending, forecasting, alerts, built-in reports, dashboards, custom reporting, and more. Visual approach to analysis ideally suited to iPads.

IT Financial Management Platform Flow Diagram

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