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IT Financials

As part of the KPMG study, KPMG gathers financial information concerning many aspects of
your IT environment. The purpose of this document is to provide you with the tools and
information you need to facilitate the analysis process.

KPMG is collecting actual and budgeted financial information (not including depreciation) from
1998-2003. Please complete one set of forms for each business unit (Northern, Southern,
and Western). KPMG is looking for the total amount of money spent annually on IT including
money spent inside the IT budget and outside the budget.

Section 1 is collecting corporate information for each Client business unit including total business
unit revenue, headcount, and spending. The rest of the form is collecting IT information only.

KPMG splits out the IT Financials into 4 focus area groups that are defined below:

Data Center

The data center includes the traditional mainframe and midrange platforms. KPMG defines the
midrange platform sites based upon technology. For example, AS/400, VAX, Sun Solaris,
RS/6000, and HP systems are all considered midrange platforms. All Intel based platform servers
belong in the distributed computing form. Each midrange platform for this analysis is one
technology or operating system platform, for example, UNIX. Grouped within the UNIX could be
HP-UX and Sun Solaris.

Network

The KPMG defined Network includes the Wide Area network that encompasses everything up to
and including the Wide Area Network router. The Network also includes the voice network, and
voice technology including hardware, software and communication costs for voice, data, video,
internet and intranet.

End User Computing

The Distributed Computing service consensus cost model includes the client layer (desktop),
connectivity layer (LAN), shared resources layer (shared servers and peripherals), and support
layer (support staff, support staff equipment and overall platform maintenance). All Intel based
platform servers belong in the distributed computing baseline. All file and print servers belong in
the distributed computing baseline.

Applications

The Applications section includes all engineering and business applications. All desktop software
(e.g., MS Office) and e-mail/groupware applications (e.g., Groupwise) belong in end user
computing
software.

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