McGraw-Hill Executive to Discuss Technology Financial Management at Pink Elephant's 15th Annual IT Management Conference

Leading Global Information and Education Company to Share Insight Into Increased Transparency for Better IT Cost Management


ISELIN, NJ--(Marketwire - February 9, 2011) -   ComSci, LLC, the preeminent leader in Technology Financial Management (TFM) solutions for IT Cost Transparency, IT Budget Automation and Technology Demand Management, today announced that its client, The McGraw-Hill Companies, represented by Greg Parris, senior director of Finance, Corporate Information Management will present on McGraw-Hill's new state-of-the-art ITIL v3 IT Financial Management practices at Pink Elephant's 15th Annual IT Management Conference

Pink Elephant's ITIL process-centric IT Management conference, recognized as the largest global meeting of ITIL IT management experts, will be held February 20-23 in Las Vegas. ComSci has recently passed the PinkVERIFY assessment and, as such, its Technology Financial Management solution has been officially certified as ITIL-compatible by Pink Elephant, the world's leading IT Service Management education and consulting provider.

Parris' session, titled McGraw-Hill's "CIO Invoice" Process, will focus on McGraw-Hill's implementation of ComSci's CIO Invoicetm IT Financial Management solutions. In this presentation, he will discuss how by issuing and managing a monthly IT services consumption and cost statement organizations can gain insight into the costs associated with, and the business value of, each specific IT activity and service provided to its lines of business. Parris will also describe how McGraw-Hill aligned tools, people and processes to further define IT services and corresponding IT budgets, while also using this information to communicate IT products and services' cost drivers and the strategic value that IT provides to business managers.

Parris' presentation will be held on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 1:25 p.m. PST and is open to all conference and event registrants. Registration and more information about the 15th Annual Pink Elephant IT Management Conference can be accessed at http://www.pinkelephant.com/ITM11/Registration/Register.htm

About McGraw-Hill

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leading global education and financial information company that plays a crucial role in the knowledge economy with leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, Platts energy information services, and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has approximately 21,000 employees with more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

About ComSci

ComSci delivers SaaS-based Technology Financial Management solutions that empower organizations to implement more effective IT financial management processes that support their ITIL V3 initiatives. Through decades of experience and its suite of Web 2.0 IT finance tools, ComSci helps IT organizations reduce costs by enhancing technology transparency and visibility, which in turn enables business units to understand and optimize demand and utilization of technology resources. ComSci is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, and was founded in 1971. ComSci has a growing number of clients for which it provides IT Financial Management solutions including The McGraw-Hill Companies, The Bank of New York Mellon, Whirlpool, NYU Medical Center, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, SAP AG, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and UBS Investment Bank. Visit www.comsci.com for further information.