The companys products have now become an established standard for usage metering, competence planning, and cost allocation management.

The resulting information can then be shared throughout the client's organization, usually for insurance program cost allocation, loss prevention and effective claim management at the local level.

Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, printing, and other resources.

They may be useful but mundane systems that simply keep track of inventory, for example, and print out reorder points and cost allocations.