Summary: Most TCO calculators will turn it in the favour of a product that's why you need to do the TCO as the enterprise architect. But is that not the job of the project manager or accountant? Rough guide what costs we will cover in this shorter than usual netcast Costs (lease or buy) in IT (always on 1, 3 and 5 years at least for trend, dependant on annual depreciation) Hardware (Desktops, Servers, Network devices, Racks, Server room cooling, LTO, Generator, Batteries,...) both separate or part of a shared environment Consumables (Tapes, Power, HDD,..) Software Licenses annual maintenance cost for software and/or hardware Staff Costs Contractor costs Consultants Operations (help desk, 2nd 3rd line, System Network Administration, Training,..) Overhead (usually add 30 %) Project costs (Initiation (with feasibility), Enterprise Architecture, Build, Test, Transition) Documentation Comms (LAN, WAN, Telephone,...) Unpredicted downtime ( not OoH) How do I get the costs Is this really useful? How do I use this. Should I not get consultants in to this?
