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IBM Apptio
Technology Business Management
Connecting Technology Investments to Business Value
What is Technology Business Management (TBM)?
TBM is a discipline that improves business outcomes by giving organizations a consistent way to translate technology investments to business value by defining the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.
Based on a standard taxonomy that can be used by technology, finance and business leaders, TBM enables organizations to react quickly to changing market dynamics, make data-driven decisions, and align organizations around a common business objective. Visit the TBM Council’s website to learn more.
TBM Use Cases
A common discipline for embracing technology leadership challenges
IT Finance
- Optimize run budget to invest in growth
- Infra/vendor/application TCO
- Consumption-based chargeback/showback
- Dynamic planning (e.g. monthly)
Cloud
- Confidence in cloud migration plans
- Financial accountability for IaaS spend
- Optimization of SaaS vendors & licenses
Agile
- Funding/tracking value streams of new innovation
- Aligning development labor to business outcomes
- Allocating resources in real-time to portfolios
What is the TBM Council?
Led by an independent board of directors, the TBM Council is a non profit business entity dedicated to advancing the discipline of TBM through education, standards, and collaboration.
Born out of Apptio’s biannual TBM Summits in 2012, Apptio is the founder and technical advisor to the community.
Tools for Automating TBM
IT Spend Optimization
- IBM Apptio
Establish repeatable and accurate planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Accelerate planning
- Track consumption
- Benchmark against peers
- 3-5% budget optimization
- Decisions and insights real-time
Cloud Financial Management
- IBM Cloudability
Connect your multi-cloud, hybrid, and SaaS infrastructure with cloud financial management best practices.
- Accelerate cloud migration
- Manage multi-cloud, SaaS
- Drive accountability
- Make migration decisions 25% faster
- Optimize multi-cloud / SaaS by 30%
Agile Investment Planning
- Targetprocess
Align development resources to business outcomes; plan and track value delivery for projects or products.
- Shift from waterfall to agile
- Plan & track value
- Align goals to work
- Cut capacity planning time by 80%
- Continuous product delivery at scale
The Apptio TBM Unified Model
The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business. ATUM is ingrained in Apptio's SaaS applications and incorporates the TBM Taxonomy, the backbone of the TBM discipline.
“Once we embedded Apptio for use in the organization, this enabled the leadership team to take operational control of budgets. As a result, we were able to ensure that costs became transparent and cost drivers were understood more clearly.”
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.
