The use of third-party cloud cost estimation and modeling tools has become a standard and essential practice for enterprise IT buyers. As the number and diversity of deployment options for applications and data have ballooned in recent years, decision makers find themselves overloaded with alternatives and needing help identifying the ideal deployment location and approach. Enterprise Strategy Group recently researched this trend to find out how prevalent the use of these tools is today as well as highlight the specific impacts they have on buying decisions.
