Tools and Techniques

Although excellent tools like Gartner’s TCO Manager for Distributed Computing can be used to perform end-to-end holistic TCO analyses, I have provided a number of simple tools and related documents on the Planning CD.

  • TCO Simple SAP Landscape Analysis.xls— This simple Excel spreadsheet helps you to identify and record where costs are incurred throughout the SAP landscape.

  • TCO Solution Stack Considerations.xls— This document is used to compare and track the costs of various solution stack alternatives.

  • TCO Lease versus Purchase Model.xls— This model is designed to help you analyze the total cost of ownership when it comes to leasing versus purchasing SAP infrastructure assets.

  • TCO SAP Outsourcing Analysis.xls— This analysis is ...

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