IBM Apptio Costing

Manage – and master – your tech costs

Spreadsheets don’t cut it

As your tech spending grows, can you deliver the data and insights your business needs?

Technology is the heartbeat of the modern business and as its role expands, managing costs and aligning them with business goals is more important than ever. Leaders need a simplified way to manage and master tech costs, so they can focus on business outcomes and maximizing the value from every dollar, not chasing data and updating spreadsheets.

55%

of business leaders lack key information regarding their technology spend decisions

Tech leaders successfully driving change and innovation follow the principles of Technology Business Management (TBM) to maximize the business value from every IT dollar. Discover six best practices for implementing TBM in your organization.

There's a better way

Apptio Costing eliminates the error-prone and time-consuming world of spreadsheets and automates the consolidation of your tech costs based on data from systems you already own. It brings financial and operational data into a common, centralized framework based on an industry-standard taxonomy of cost categories and hierarchies. Together with Apptio’s proprietary allocation strategies, metrics, KPIs, and reporting structure, organizations can align around a single source of costing truth based on common data and shared insights.

Improve cost transparency

Easily and quickly understand, review, and communicate your tech spend to provide visibility to business stakeholders

Control OpEx and cut costs

Continually evaluate and optimize labor mix, vendor spend, and apps and services.

Increase business value and alignment

Realize the true value of investments by understanding consumption and unit costs and aligning them to business priorities.

Simplify and analyze

Automate the ingestion and structuring of financial and operational data to gain a complete and connected view into tech spend.

Optimize

Optimize overall IT spend by reducing waste, eliminating duplications, and aligning investments to strategic priorities.

Align

Align key investments with business priorities by shifting run spend to fund grow/change investments.

What Our Customers Say

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

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.

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.

Designed to meet your evolving strategy

Regardless of where you are in your TBM journey, Apptio Costing can deliver a clear, easy-to-understand view of your diverse and evolving tech costs, driving informed decisions in a rapidly changing tech landscape. With Apptio’s industry-leading solutions, you can build a well-structured IT plan that supports continuous innovation, adapts to changing market conditions, and ensures technology resources deliver the most value – all while maintaining control over costs.

Costing Essentials

A simple, easy-to-use costing framework, leveraging prescriptive allocations allowing you to establish foundational cost transparency and value for organization quickly.

Costing Standard

A highly customizable platform that can ingest and structure data from virtually any source system, and deliver fully consumptive allocations – allowing your organization to understand TCO and better manage overall tech consumption.

Costing + Planning Bundle

Leverage the combined power of Costing and Planning to streamline budgeting and forecasting, enhance decision accuracy, and enable you to continually refocus and replan your portfolio to optimize tech investments and quickly react to economic changes.

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Part of a Comprehensive Suite

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Establish ITFM fundamentals
Understand & communicate technology spend
Understand services composition
Manage and rationalize application portfolio
Track cloud and infrastructure spend
Manage & optimize IT assets
Manage end user devices spend
Manage business consumption
Manage & optimize vendor spend
Make informed labor decisions
Accelerate budgeting & forecasting cycles
Conduct variance analysis
Build/run cost planning
Manage Bill of Technology
Run scenarios to validate prices to shape demand
Improve unit rate accuracy
Recover costs directly from business units
Benchmark and optimize spend
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