CIO COCKPIT vs Upland ComSci

CIO COCKPIT provides IT budgeting, cost tracking, controlling, cloud cost management and financial planning. It combines capacity and cost planning for Business, IT, Finance, HR and Marketing, with role-based dashboards for CIOs, CFOs and business units. Users can configure multi-dimensional cost models with scenario planning, direct forecast entry, versioning and audit trails. ERP integration consolidates data from financial and project management systems. A web frontend and Data Collection Management system gather hardware and software usage and inventory information. Documented collectors cover Azure, Hyper-V, Veeam, Druva Insync, MSSQL and Windows hosts. Background services expose REST APIs documented with OpenAPI 3 and Swagger UI, using OAuth2 authentication and authorization. An integrated AI chatbot supports natural-language interaction with COCKPIT data. The product supports API, Linux, self-hosted, web and Windows deployments. A free trial plan lists one module and one user. Paid plans are listed at €799 a year for a five-year contract, €899 a year for three years, and €999 a year for one year. CIO COCKPIT is headquartered in Essen, Germany, and was founded in 1995.

Upland ComSci is a web-based IT financial management solution for organizations that want to manage technology costs and show them to business owners. It provides service costing, sub-ledger detail and consumption-based chargeback. For application portfolio work, it reports total cost of ownership by application to support management and rationalization. ComSci also consolidates cost and usage data from multiple cloud and SaaS providers, with dashboards, reports and line-item detail for monitoring, showback and chargeback. Its analytics cover product costs, unit costs, business-unit demand, application ownership costs and cloud cost drivers. Teams can use the data to identify underused cloud instances for consolidation or retirement and find overutilized resources. The solution supports budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation and scenario planning. It integrates with corporate reporting systems including Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects. ComSci can also produce bills for shared services such as office space, administration, legal, marketing and HR, in addition to IT services. Upland describes the product for IT finance managers and teams in small and large enterprises. Pricing is on request.