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Align technology, finance, and the business
When you are aligned across technology, finance, and business units, you get the most value from your tech investments. The IBM Apptio portfolio helps you get everyone on the same page and optimize your tech spend by:
- Making it easier to communicate the value of tech investments to all stakeholders
- Getting rid of time-intensive and error-prone manual processes
- Accelerating continuous planning cycles with more accurate outcomes
- Offering real-time transparency and insights to make faster, data-driven decisions
Purpose-built to handle all your tech spend needs
Navigating the challenges of technology business 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.
Technology
Business Management
Costing
Planning
Billing
Benchmarking
Uncover data-driven insights
Get a complete and connected view into technology spend, understand spend drivers, and leverage a continuous planning process for faster, more accurate forecasts.
Optimize costs
Reduce waste and eliminate duplications, shift budgets from 'run' to 'grow,' and align investments to strategic priorities.
Business value and alignment
Realize the true value of investments through consumption insights and unit costs, and align key investments with business priorities.
Built on the IBM Apptio platform
Part of a Comprehensive Suite
| Use Case |
IBM Apptio Costing |
IBM Apptio Planning |
IBM Apptio Billing |
IBM Apptio Benchmarking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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