How To Calculate Total Cost Of IT Ownership

A look at bMighty's free online calculator.

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Cost-cutting may reduce your bottom line, but it can also cripple your information-technology infrastructure. That's why, when making smart decisions about where to invest (and save) your IT dollars, it's critical to calculate the "total cost of ownership." Bmighty aims to help, with its Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, provided courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group.

This free Excel-based calculator accurately estimates your IT costs at the strategic and daily operational levels. It can account for both direct and indirect costs, including hardware, software, systems management, support and services.
The calculator can also be adapted to include costs unique to your business. And the graphically represented results make the analysis easy to grasp and act on.

Check out the free TCO calculator here. And for more help getting a handle on everything from hardware and networking to executing and securing transactions in cyberspace, check out the The Small-Biz Tech Starter Kit.