Nicus FMDB for Enterprise Architecture delivers full and defensible Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) data for business applications directly within ServiceNow. By extending Enterprise Architecture workflows with finance-aligned costs, it enables stakeholders to clearly communicate IT’s impact in business terms, and make smarter, data-driven decisions about their application portfolios and transformation priorities.
With Nicus FMDB for Enterprise Architecture, organizations can:
- Calculate lifecycle costs across software, hardware, cloud, and labor to create fully burdened, finance-aligned application TCO
- Access insights directly in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace, including integration with multiple out-of-the-box dashboards and a dedicated TCO dashboard
- Rationalize applications by quantifying redundancy, underutilization, and business value impact
- Calculate full cloud migration costs and identify underutilized server elimination opportunities
- Reduce technical debt by exposing ongoing maintenance and support costs tied to legacy applications
- Allocate the cost of compute from servers to applications through integration with the enterprise architecture dependency map and CMDB data
- Model future-state architectures with financial metrics to support portfolio planning and investment prioritization
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- Automates full TCO calculations for applications
- Imports finance-approved GL and cloud spend data
- Delivers insights to the Enterprise Architecture Workspace
- Calculates full cloud migration costs
- Tracks application cost trends over time
- Provides out-of-the-box cost allocation model for rapid implementation
- FMDB for EA fully uses fxcurrency throughout the allocation processes
- Nicus FMDB – Financial Management Database 1.0.2 or later
- Enterprise Architecture License and Workspace
- Total Cost of Ownership (sn_apm_tco) plugin
- Fiscal Calendar (fiscal_calendar) plugin