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
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
Optimize costs and improve business alignment with ITFM innovations
Discover how to extract greater insights from operational and financial data and unlock the black box of IT spend and consumption. These conference sessions illustrate how to drive greater collaboration, improving decisions and helping deliver greater value from your IT 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.
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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.