Percentage of IT operating costs, excluding depreciation/amortization, dedicated to manage enterprise information

This measure calculates the percentage of IT operating costs, including depreciation/amortization, allocated to the process group "manage enterprise information," which consists of understanding what information is important to the enterprise; determining how, when and from where that information is collected; defining how that information is structured and organized; and establishing the policies and controls needed for the collection and use of that information. In this measure, operating expense includes internal personnel cost, external personnel cost, hardware cost for both owned and leased hardware excluding hardware dedicated to data and voice networks, software cost to include both purchased software and software as a service, data and voice network costs as well as equipment dedicated to data networks and allocations to IT for shared sites and services (e.g., and allocation for corporate facilities and general overhead). It is part of a set of Supplemental Information measures that help companies evaluate additional variables not covered elsewhere for the "manage enterprise information" process.