Hardware, software, application criteria, systems design, and network components have to be balanced against the reality of the application environment. Each element has to be weighed against available alternatives. In the final analysis, you will be developing a set of work processes by which the enterprise can get things done. The choices you make will impact the cost of doing business, the efficiency of operations and the ability of the enterprise to react to new opportunities or challenges. Every system impacts business costs.
Some systems also enable revenue growth.
ThinTCO has been designed to give you a way to identify, accumulate and analyze the cost of alternative network architectures. It presents a methodology, a process, by which you can develop a clearer understanding of available alternatives. This model will help you to summarize your analysis. It will show both the cost of the network and the cost of using the network. The basic objective is the identification, accumulation and analysis of the alternative network architectures that could be used to meet the requirements of your application.