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… IT analyst firm would provide TCO analyses, as they have the broadest database of TCO data points. The problem is that the cost of TCO analysis or really any consulting from the major IT analyst firms is often exorbitant.
Contacting a Consulting Company for TCO Calculation?

If you contact a partner at a major consulting company who works out of the SAP practice, you will hear about the great benefits of SAP.
If you contact a partner who works out of the Oracle practice—you get the idea.

So, if neither consulting companies nor IT analysts can be relied upon …

… partially go to the consultants, but much of it is simply going to the management—that have very little to do with implementing the software. A partner at a large consulting company, out of the IT practice, will make roughly $500,000 per year without ever touching the application being implemented. In addition to the partner’s compensation, the major consulting companies also have large overheads in offices (these often have to be prestigious to impress visiting clients), marketing (advertising and attending conferences), expense accounts, etc. Again, none of these things have anything to do with project work. At …