Although Information Technology is one of the largest expenditures in the enterprise, one of the most difficult challenges faced by a CIO is justifying the connection between IT spending and business value. The majority of today's IT organizations rely upon a planning and control environment consisting of point solutions such as spreadsheets, email and internally developed tools. Armed only with these disconnected islands of data, most IT organizations lack the ability to track and analyze costs by the business processes and applications they support.
CIOs and other IT executives lack a comprehensive business analysis solution for managing and analyzing IT financials across both project and ongoing spending. Without the ability to translate IT costs into business value, IT is unable to communicate with the CFO and with client organizations in a common financial and business-centric language. This inability makes IT costs appear arbitrary and perpetuates the image of IT as a cost center.

Thirdware works with IT services companies to provide the visibility and control required to track every IT purchase throughout the enterprise and manage the connection between business demands and IT resources.