Karpychev V.Yu.Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation kavlyr@yandex.ru
Importance The need to increase the competitiveness of domestic enterprises leads to the search for new forms and methods of control of their economic efficiency. One of possible solutions to this problem is to optimize the cost of information technologies that significantly affect the final economic characteristics of enterprises. For this purpose, various approaches to the study and improvement of economic parameters of information systems have widespread application in foreign countries. Objectives This article attempts to analyze the well-known methodology of assessing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of information systems and its application in Russia, to determine the extent of its importance, current trends, specifics, constraints and prospects for application. Methods To achieve the objectives, I used the methods of comparative analysis, extrapolation, trend analysis, and others. Results I analyzed various aspects of the methodology of assessing the total cost of ownership of information systems and its application in Russia. I investigated the factors constraining the widespread use of the methodology. The study includes the consideration of possible alternative solutions to minimizing total cost of ownership of information systems. Conclusions and Relevance I conclude that at present, when the problem of reducing total cost of ownership of information systems is relevant, the wide use of respective well-known foreign techniques of this indicator evaluation is limited by a number of factors having different nature. It is possible to overcome the considered constraints, if there is growing demand for modern tools of improving enterprise performance. Such demand originates with increasing organizational maturity of enterprises.
Keywords: information system, total cost of ownership, analysis, cost management
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