SHG ITFM vs Upland ComSci

SHG ITFM helps organizations connect IT spending with business goals by modeling service costs, allocating expenses, and reporting on cost patterns. It uses cost data, service structures, and allocation logic to model IT services, with primary and secondary allocations based on percentages, dollar amounts, or total-cost-of-ownership drivers. Budgeting, forecasting, and showback are supported. Reporting and Analytics presents KPIs and total-cost-of-ownership breakdowns by service and cost center, with filters and Excel export. The solution can connect through standard APIs or custom connectors to Oracle, SAP, Azure, AWS, and ServiceNow. Cost models can span multiple legal entities, currencies, and geographies. SHG offers cloud-hosted and on-premise deployment, depending on data-governance and security requirements. The product is self-hosted in its platform listing, while deployment options include both cloud-hosted and on-premise arrangements. After a demo, SHG offers a test environment and a free trial or pilot, with no duration stated. Pricing is custom and available on request. The product is made by SkyHighGrowth Inc.

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.