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Take control of your IT investments with market-leading ITFM solutions

Smarter IT spend, greater impact

The size and scope of technology portfolios has only accelerated in recent years, contributing to increasing complexity. This growing complexity is impossible to manage by hand with manual processes, requiring a modern approach to manage costs and drive performance. Only with an integrated perspective can companies ensure technology investments are doing more than just helping run the business but rather driving value in the form of innovation and improved business outcomes.

IT Financial Management (ITFM) with IBM Apptio helps you take control of your IT investments and drive insights across your organization.

  • Answer ad-hoc questions about costs 95% faster
  • Reduce planning cycle time by 75% in as little as 4 weeks with <1% variance
  • Achieve 3-5% savings or redirection of your total tech budget
  • Rationalize over 25%+ application inventory
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Transform your IT department from a cost center into a strategic partner with our comprehensive guide to IT Financial Management. With 55% of business leaders lacking key information regarding their technology spend decisions, the need for effective financial management is critical.

Drive IT financial management insights across your organization

Collect operational and financial data from across the enterprise and translate that data into terms that stakeholders across the business can understand: outcomes.

Modernize IT finance

Bring modern efficiency to technology planning and cost management. Structure your financial and operational data automatically, enabling a complete and connected view into technology spend. Eliminate manual, error-prone processes involving spreadsheets and build more rigor into your ITFM practice.

Fast, accurate insights

Transform your key enterprise data into actionable insights that drive smarter tech investment decisions. Build a scalable ITFM foundation with our financial modeling engine, honed through 16 years of industry-leading innovation.

Optimize costs

Optimize, lower, or reallocate IT spend by reducing waste, eliminating duplications, and aligning investments to strategic priorities. Streamline budgeting and forecasting processes to better track variance and support showback and chargeback.

IBM Apptio is purpose-built to handle your IT spend

Navigating the challenges of IT financial management requires a robust, integrated solution that offers clarity, control, and value. The IBM Apptio portfolio is precisely that: your single source of truth for managing technology costing, planning, billing, and benchmarking. It provides a comprehensive view of technology spend, enabling organizations to make better, data-driven decisions. This helps align tech investments with business priorities, ensuring every dollar spent is a step towards achieving strategic goals.

IT Financial Management

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For foundational cost transparency
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For streamlined technology budgeting and forecasting
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For defensible billing that shows the value of your tech
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For tracking performance and validating decisions

Guiding Technology Investments:
Insights for Business Leaders

Based on insights from over 1,000 senior technology decision-makers across the globe, this report provides a strategic framework for maximizing the ROI of expanding technology investments.

IBM Apptio: IT spend management you can depend on

IBM Apptio provides a trusted and proven IT financial modeling engine, streamlined through over 1,800 successful deployments. Our simplified, modern platform helps you get started faster while delivering accurate, actionable insights.

Trusted by leading ITFM practitioners

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Saved €2.5 million the first year with a similar amount forecast for subsequent years. Reduced application portfolio by 15% in the first year.

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Achieved 100% consumption-based allocation model. Migrated workloads to the cloud and consolidated data centers, decommissioned 3,400 physical server cores, resulting in $2.4 million in savings.

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Exceeded plan by capturing 95% of IT costs, saving $47M in the first year alone. Launched 130 cost optimization initiatives resulting in a $106M savings program over 3 years.

What Our Customers Say

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Nov 21, 2024

IBM Apptio provides the ability to connect financial and operational data in a way that is reliable, repeatable, underst... 

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Yes - We are replacing all ofthe Tableau dashboards in the areas we are integrating in Apptio through EBM. We are also r... 

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Nov 5, 2024

As we implement IBM Apptio, we are beginning to produce value for our IT stakeholders to understand their total cost of... 

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Nov 5, 2024

ApptioOne is a great way to connect costs from the multiple companies that fall under NextEra Energy. 

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Nov 20, 2024

We use the IT Planning model for project budget and forecasting. The model is user-friendly we're able to train the PPMO... 

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Nov 6, 2024

The fast time to market within 3 months is really useful 

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Sep 27, 2024

We use this to help organize the spend for our IT group in categories into application or non application, we also use t... 

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Nov 30, 2023

ApptioOne provides a level of transparency that our finance, IT, and business partners have always wanted but never woul... 

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Nov 28, 2023

Modeling is very important to to my business because we are able to break down costs at a level in which is beneficial f... 

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Oct 25, 2023

We use Budgeting/Forecasting every month to review spend vs. budget and to forecast for the remaining of the year. We ha... 

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Oct 25, 2023

ApptioOne helps us understand the costs that make up applications, services, and IT Towers, providing a total cost of ow... 

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Oct 25, 2023

I think literally every IT organization could benefit from ApptioOne. 99% of home made Cost Transparency solutions don't... 

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Oct 25, 2023

ApptioOne is the best product in the market for planning, budgeting, cost management, and TBM implementation. 

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Oct 24, 2023

Using ApptioOne has worked well on creating cost transparency and bringing the finance and IT departments to the same ta... 

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Sep 11, 2023

We used data ingestion and modeling,and flexible analytics and reporting. It is a powerful and flexible tool to allow us... 

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It is ideal for large organizations with numerous accounts, users, systems, and applications. It is possible to manage m... 

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Oct 25, 2023

ApptioOne is great at flexibility of data ingress and configuration. Reports are highly customizable, and Apptio provide... 

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Oct 24, 2023

It is best suited for trying to figure out the Financial Structure through out the company and how things relate. 

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Apptio One is used in our org for costing out our IT costs both on prem and cloud. We use the cost transparency to assis... 

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Oct 25, 2023

ApptioOne has provided our organization deeper insights into our periodic reviews of financials & better process and str... 

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It is good for bringing in license detail from Microsoft, ServiceNow and calculating allocation of named licenses to pro... 

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Oct 26, 2023

We use ApptioOne for Technology chargeback to our business clients and cost transparency using the business taxonomy fra... 

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Mar 10, 2023

We use ITP Planning for our annual budget season as well as our financial forecast. It makes is easier for all users in... 

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Dec 8, 2022

The big thing is the cost transparency. Being able to hit a couple keys and you can see what your cost is on different p... 

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We discovered that it was an effective tool for revealing where we were spending money on IT. We were able to reduce spe... 

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Nov 9, 2022

Apptio's datalink product has made data automation and ingestion very simple. The tools in Apptio also cut out several s... 

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Overall experience with the post-sales support team has been fantastic, from CSAs, CSMs to the support team themselves. ... 

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Nov 9, 2022

ApptioOne is well suited for managing IT financial data and organizing it in ways that allow for valuable discussions to... 

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Nov 9, 2022

Budgeting live helps reduce overall budgeting costs. Labor costs around budgeting had been cut 90%. The tool pays for it... 

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It is a market leader that can help solve IT finance issues 

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Apptio Technology Business Management has been able to eliminate manual processes that involved numerous Excel spreadshe... 

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ApptioOne has allowed my organization to streamline the budget forecast process. Cutting the budget creation time from 3... 

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I like that it shows Cost Center Owners detailed actuals that are easy to ingest and use in their planning, and I like t... 

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Nov 8, 2022

ApptioOne has made our lives so much easier. We can easily adjust the budget and incorporate changes on the fly and show... 

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Due to Apptio we are able to produce really good plans using data sets (Contracts, Labor and Assets) and actuals that ar... 

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Nov 8, 2022

It helps us address our operational expenses and allows us to use a multi-year forecasting approach to our business mode... 

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Nov 8, 2022

I utilize the IT Planning tool to create budgets and forecast updates. I also use the cost transparency to view variance... 

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We are able to reduce manual processes by using ApptioOne. 

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ApptioOne is very powerful. It supports an almost unlimited combination of allocation strategies, with multiple metrics. ... 

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Nov 26, 2024

BM Apptio has made it so that we are not spending so much time on reporting monthly, because we have the reports sent to... 

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Editable tables have been the most significant feature enabling IT service owners to directly manage budget forecasts wi... 

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IBM Apptio is being implemented to align our operational data with financial to get to total cost of ownership, allocati... 

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Jan 23, 2025

we did not have visibility and neither transparency on what the IT infrastructure cost and how the business units are co... 

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Using Apptio has significantly streamlined our global IT budgeting and forecasting timeline and improved its accuracy an... 

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Nov 5, 2024

Very good at helping to analyze and categorize technology spend. It is very easy to create custom tables and fields to m... 

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Nov 5, 2024

IBM Apptio is a powerful tool for explaining tech costs to non tech leaders. 

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Nov 6, 2024

It's a powerful tool for modelling data and visualizing the data to provide executives with a good overview (or deep div... 

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Nov 5, 2024

We use ApptioOne for our annual planning process to provide actionable insights to our senior leaders in order to make r... 

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Modeling supports all of our required allocation methodologies. 

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Nov 20, 2024

ApptioOne is an exceptional product and is very useful in reporting your organizational costs. It's exceptional for repo... 

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Unlock the full potential of your tech investments

From AI to hybrid cloud, tech spend has become increasingly complex, and organizations need a way to intelligently process this spend data at scale. That requires bringing financial and operational data together, transforming it into insights, and then actioning on it to improve efficiency, reduce waste, plan more accurately, and drive more business value from every technology investment dollar spent.

Continuous innovation and capability upgrades in the IBM Apptio product suite will ensure your technology investments continue to deliver outsized value.

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