ICT Bill

BRAIN FORCE ICT BILL
 
Today IT is no longer a playground or an experimental area. Policy makers more than ever expect sound cost-benefit analyses for the evaluation of planned IT projects, in line with the saying: "You cant’t manage what you can’t measure". IT divisions become profit centers and demand cost transparency through traceable ICT billing. This enables comparability and is thereby a major factor in economic management decisions in terms of "make or buy".
 
To meet these requirements, BRAIN FORCE offers the BRAIN FORCE ICT Bill billing and accounting software. It is an efficient and homogeneous system solution for recording,
processing and invoicing ICT costs so as to give users a competitive edge. BRAIN FORCE ICT Bill is based on the well proved BRAIN FORCE systems beusenBAS and INKAS-SQL and offers a fully web based user interface.
 

Transparent ICT billing

The components of the modular system form the basis of both classical carrier and provider systems and the invoicing of external corporate or private customers. What is more, ICT Bill is excellently suited to projects which are mainly involved with internal ICT billing and controlling. It is an adequate system for SMEs as well as large companies engaged in any industry.
 

Identifying savings potential

Besides invoicing ICT costs in line with actual usage, BRAIN FORCE ICT Bill clearlyhighlights influencing factors, bottlenecks, as well as potential areas for making savings. It provides important information for cost optimization as well as management decisions, thereby enabling focused ICT investments in the medium and long term. Cost transparency also strengthens a critical success factor in IT projects, i.e., the departments' commitment: "Those who pay may choose what to buy".
 

Various billing variations

Using BRAIN FORCE ICT Bill all fixed and variable costs may be recorded and processed. Services are broken down in detail, assigned a price and allocated to the respective users (e.g., organisations, cost centers, persons). Besides quantitative factors including the amount of data or the duration of a connection, billing may also be based on the content ("content billing"). Even ICT external services can be considered.
 

For providers

Using ICT Bill, service providers can invoice all services down to the port level in a detailed and transparent manner. Invoicing services for third parties (e.g., various telecommunications providers) is just as possible as convergent billing.
 

For corporate controlling

ICT Bill for controlling functions is ideal for companies and organisations which invoice services based on actual usage. Complete billing is seamlessly handled, and users can be tracked in detail at any point in time. Functions including ELFE (electronic telecommunication bill) support automatic invoice checking thereby increasing billing efficiency. ICT Bill helps both users/service providers and internal ICT controlling departments to set up much more effective and error-free costing processes.
 

Interfaces with other software

As a part of the BRAIN FORCE Infrastructure Suite, ICT Bill supports BRAIN FORCE Net Organizer. This BRAIN FORCE system enables corporate documentation and administration of ICT infrastructures. The coupling together of both systems greatly increases the transparency of ICT components used within the infrastructure and supports usage-based billing of ICT infrastructure costs.