The CIOview Player is the foundation engine that drives all CIOview TCOnow! and ROInow! products. CIOview Player 4.0’s breakthrough design enhances performance multi-fold, and also adds navigational and design elements to greatly Improve the user’s experience.
“With customers demanding deeper understanding of the total costs of their technology, more encompassing analysis is required. The screeching performance of this new release is mandatory to perform the analysis – including Capacity planning and configuration analysis – that CIOview customers have come to expect,” said Scott McCready, president of CIOview. “The CIOview Player 4.0 delivers the muscle to drive the far-reaching knowledge and deep intelligence that are built in to CIOview products.”
Most TCO and ROI analysis tools today are based upon electronic spreadsheets, as the earliest generation of CIOview’s tools was. This new release breaks away from the limitations of a Spreadsheet design, allowing CIOview to develop the most sophisticated financial inferencing models available today. Features of the new engine include:
High performance financial engine, which can process large amounts of data at three to ten times the performance of a spreadsheet
A robust inferencing engine that guide you through massive amounts of complex financial information
Side-by-side TCO comparisons, unique in the market
New user interface which simplifies navigation through the analysis
Advice is in place for each line item, explaining how to answer each question
Thousands of default Benchmark data points are included, allowing you to progress through your analysis even without exact data for each question. You can refine your answers at a later date if required.
Capacity planning tools that are system- and vendor-specific are built in
Effortlessly share and update TCO and ROI projects with members of your team with CIOview’s portable format .
