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IBM ApptioApptio Benchmarking provides self-service peer comparisons of your IT spend over time, enabling an ongoing process for tracking performance, validating decisions, and identifying areas for improvement.
- Validate spending levels
Get a view of actuals vs. self-selected benchmarks to know where you stand relative to peers. - Track progress
Identify areas of risk, set targets, and monitor improvement efforts. - Identify improvement areas
Use relevant, credible benchmark data as objective reference points.
Understand how you compare to self-selected peers
- Choose and adjust the peer group that fits your organization.
- Select by industry, revenue, and geography and discover the effects of scale.
- Compare against companies of similar spend characteristics.
Justify current IT spend and defend budgets
- Access the full benchmark data set and understand how each metric is calculated.
- Know where you stand versus the best and worst in class with box plot distributions for each data point.
- Conduct alternate scenario analysis with flexibility to adjust peer benchmarks and estimate actuals.
Explore and uncover insights to inform better decisions
- Compare actual IT costs to benchmarks side-by-side on demand.
- Explore variance drivers with instant access to underlying actuals.
- Set targets and track progress with trending comparisons.
Build confidence with trusted benchmark data
- Peer costs are based on a standard taxonomy.
- Data sourced from trusted partners and the Apptio Community.
- Benchmark data is refreshed annually.
Designed to meet your evolving strategy
No matter where you are in your ITFM journey, Apptio Benchmarking provides self-service peer comparisons of your technology spend over time, enabling an ongoing process to track performance, validate decisions, and identify areas for improvement – ensuring your organization stays agile. 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.
Benchmarking Essentials*
Delivers foundational financial benchmarks into IT spend and IT OpEx, enabling organizations to validate decisions, identify improvement areas and justify IT spend.
*Included in IBM Apptio Costing Essentials
Benchmarking Standard
IBM Apptio Benchmarking builds on Essentials, offering deeper analysis across IT towers and infrastructure. It allows you to interact with benchmark data, select custom peer comparisons, and track performance over time, fostering agility and adaptability.
Better Together
Accelerate technology spend management and service management with Apptio & ServiceNow’s joint approach to managing the work and business of IT.Part of a Comprehensive Suite
| Use Case |
IBM Apptio Costing |
IBM Apptio Planning |
IBM Apptio Billing |
IBM Apptio Benchmarking |
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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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