More than Public Sector & Enterprise ITFM
BluIQ™ Chargeback & Cost Recovery streamlines the process of Public Sector and Enterprise IT chargeback & cost recovery, making it easier for Shared Services to recover IT cost, change consumption behavior and demonstrate the value of IT for department and agency consumption of voice, cloud, desktop and other IT services. The challenge to optimize spending and drive value has never been greater.
Chargeback & Cost Recovery | Cost Allocation | Vendor Management
Public sector and enterprise shared services groups are increasingly tasked with managing expenditures, reducing costs, standardizing infrastructure, and leading digital transformations. They must enhance security, manage consumption, and ensure consistent infrastructure across departments and agencies.
GAAP/GASB Ledger-based Chargeback
Complex Metering for Usage-Based Services
More Than Just ITFM
Chargeback Reconciliation to Vendor Invoice
Financial Platform for Internal Billing
Chargeback Reconciliation Portal
Optimize IT Purchasing
Increase the Value of IT Services Delivered with Bulk Purchasing
BluIQ delivers, with a platform designed to help you capture and allocate your entire program spend, no matter how complex your environment is.
- Utilize volume purchasing across agencies with master services agreements and bulk discounts.
- Monitor and optimize consumption to drive awareness and behavior change.
- Apply charges equitably across units for fair cost distribution.
- Include any service in your chargeback and cost recovery portfolio.
- Meet objectives for complex consumption models with actual-level chargeback and cost recovery.
- Choose the cost allocation method with the highest reward-to-effort ratio.
Accuracy, at Scale
The Smart Choice for Seamless and Accurate Chargeback
Shared Services Organizations use BluIQ Chargeback & Cost Recovery to:
- Automate consumption of usage data from external systems and cloud service providers.
- Either apply a charge to these services or to pass-through a vendor charge.
- Address the need to automate the invoicing process to the disparate agencies and departments.
- Provide visibility to agencies and departments via a portal for invoice validation and approval.
- Enable the transfer of invoice approval to accounts payable.
Cost-Recovery Driven Chargeback
More than IT Financial Management Showback or pro forma Billing
To maximize value from shared services, implement metered, usage, and consumption-based billing for actual usage of equipment, infrastructure, and resources.
- Automate paper-based or legacy systems.
- Centralize cloud costs across multicloud environments.
- Ingest data from disparate, often legacy, systems.
- Support base charges, consumption, and resource billing models.
- Reduce manhours for shared services and agencies.
- Enable real-time chargebacks for budget adherence.
- Implement efficient reconciliation processes to boost agency satisfaction.
Public Sector and Enterprise Chargeback
Bill All Central Services
Including labor, backup, colocation, mainframe, midrange, and x86 compute, storage, enterprise email, mail hub, network, and pass-through of software renewals, voice, and other services on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
Streamline Chargeback Processes
Export a summary of the invoice details into a flat file for consumption/intake by financial accounting systems for the creation of accounts receivable (on the central services’ side) and accounts payable (on the customer side).
Improve Data Ingestion and Normalization
With BluIQ, you can manage sophisticated tiers and attributes from multiple & concurrent data sources, across a wide variety of facets, including usage, consumption, billing, events, licenses, or any other data type.
Reconcile Usage Data
Loads and reconcile usage data, providing management features for the rates to be charged for each service.
Adhere to GAAP, GASB and OMB Circular A-87
Customize invoices to meet regulatory and policy requirements.
Support Billing Issue Resolution
Enable Real-time Contract Management, Charge Monitoring & Reconciliation.
Collect Billing Data
Automatically from central services Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) systems.
Collect Cloud Billing Data
From cloud service providers and allow for billing customers based on actual usage, a percentage of usage or a fee for use.
Automate Chargeback Processes
Present bills to central services customers for them to process for payment, addressing the need to automate the invoicing process to the disparate agencies and departments.
GAAP/GASB Ledger-based Billing for Central Services
Compliance and Accuracy in Centralized Chargeback
- Chargeback & Cost Recovery: Support base, consumption, and resource billing models.
- Real-time Budget Control: Enable real-time chargebacks to maintain budget compliance.
- Legacy to Automation: Transition from manual to automated systems.
- Data Integration: Integrate data from multiple, including legacy, sources.Centralized Cloud Costs: Manage decentralized cloud expenses efficiently.
- Efficiency: Save time and resources for shared services and agencies.
- Streamlined Reconciliation: Implement easy processes to enhance agency satisfaction.
Complex Metering for Usage-Based Services
Precision Chargeback for Advanced Usage Scenarios
- Advanced Metering Capabilities: Accurate tracking of usage data.
- Dynamic Pricing Models: Flexible chargeback to match service usage.
- Seamless Data Integration: Integrate usage data from multiple sources.
- Automated Chargeback Processes: Efficiency through automation.
- Detailed Usage Reporting: Gain insights into service consumption.
- Comprehensive usage tracking.
- Reduced billing discrepancies.
- Enhanced cost recovery.
Provide Compliant Billing Beyond pro forma Reports
Streamline Inter-Departmental & -Agency Billing
Blulogix Enterprise Chargeback enhances internal cost recovery and streamlines interdepartmental billing in large organizations, providing compliant billing beyond pro forma reports.
- Supports billing of all central services on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
- GAAP, GASB and OMB Circular A-87 compliant financial platform that supports integrated internal billing.
- Collects billing data from cloud service providers for flexible billing.
- Customizable invoices to meet regulations and policies.
- Supports billing issue resolution.
- Provides similar functionality for data collection and validation.
Ensure Vendor Billing Accuracy & Transparency
Chargeback Reconciliation to Vendor Invoice
BluIQ’s user-friendly interface and analytics provide real-time insights into costs by department, agency, vendor, and service type, supporting a consistent chargeback and cost recovery process for Shared Services Organizations.
A Financial Platform that Supports Internal Billing and More
BluIQ’s user-friendly interface and industry-leading analytics offer valuable, real-time insights into costs by department and agency, vendor and type of service, helping to implement a consistent chargeback & cost recovery process and improve help Shared Services Organizations meet their objectives.
- Collects billing data monthly from ITSM system.
- Loads and reconciles usage data, managing service rates.
- Presents bills to central services customers for payment.
- Exports invoice details for financial accounting system integration.
Enhance Transparency and Accountability
Chargeback Reconciliation Portal
BluIQ provides agencies and departments with a dedicated portal to validate and approve invoices, enhancing transparency and accountability in the billing process. This ensures all charges are accurately communicated and easily validated by the respective agencies.
- Centralized platform for invoice validation.
- Easy access to billing information.
- Enhanced transparency.
- Improved accountability.
- Automated approval workflows.
- Detailed reporting and analytics.
- Enhanced communication channels.
- Increased agency satisfaction.
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