CHAPTER 5Financial Impact: Total Cost of Ownership

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Analyzing Total Cost of Ownership

• How Solution Vision Drives TCO

• Lowering TCO Through the SAP Technology Stack

• Lowering TCO Through People and Processes

• Summary

• Case Study: TCO and Risk Factors

This chapter takes a closer look at return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership analysis, or TCO analysis. The idea at this stage in your SAP project is not to justify the project so much as to determine where and when the costs are incurred within the context of the SAP technology stack and ongoing operations. You also need to be able to compare various technology stack and staffing options and alternatives from a holistic cost perspective. By calculating rough ...

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