IT Infrastructure Optimization
Reveal Total Cost of Ownership and Opportunities for Cost Reduction
As your IT environment evolves, infrastructure-related decisions become more complex. New initiatives such as a move to a shared services model, increased adoption of virtualization or cloud computing, data center consolidation, vendor consolidation and application rationalization have both expected and unexpected impacts on the cost and value of infrastructure services.
Optimizing your infrastructure spending depends on better visibility into the cost, value, and demand for services. Apptio delivers the information you need to make the right decisions, such as platform standards, definition of storage tiers, and negotiation of service contracts. This type of intelligence can dramatically reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) while maintaining expected levels of service.
Apptio Helps You Optimize Your Infrastructure Spending
- Understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) of internal IT services, products and domains
- Drive infrastructure decisions that reduce cost and improve quality
- Balance business demand through better transparency of IT costs, quality and consumption
- Improve short- and long-term infrastructure planning and investment decisions
Apptio delivers a complete suite of on-demand applications combined with best practice templates, and expert services to quickly achieve these benefits.
Understand the TCO of Internal IT Services, Products and Domains
Apptio’s IT Service Costing application reveals TCO in a way that is meaningful to IT infrastructure decision makers:
- Track the TCO of storage, servers, networking, desktops and other infrastructure technologies
- Analyze your cost drivers for infrastructure, such as your hardware, software, labor, facilities, vendors, and more
- Measure the unit costs for your IT products, such as your servers, networks, storage, service tickets and more
- Analyze your variable cost dynamics in order to determine the impact of changes to your business according to budget and funding requirements
- Automatically incorporate financial, organizational and operational data from disparate sources to establish a system of record for IT financial management
Value: Understand the fully-loaded costs of your infrastructure services and products in order to make better decisions about investments and resource utilization.
Drive Infrastructure Decisions that Reduce Cost and Improve Quality
Apptio’s IT Service Performance and IT Benchmarking applications combine operational metrics with financial metrics to highlight opportunities to reduce costs and improve quality of service:
- Benchmark your IT costs over time, across business units, and against third-party offerings
- Intelligently identify hardware to be replaced or upgraded due to age, quality, maintenance costs, or warranty expirations
- Track consumption, capacity and utilization rates of IT products and services
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs associated with hardware, applications and vendor contracts
- Identify direct costs associated with low utilization rates to quickly spot opportunities for consolidation
- Quantify and justify investments in your infrastructure, applications or services
Value: Quickly make decisions that reduce the costs of infrastructure and services while helping balance demand with capacity.
Balance Business Demand through Better Transparency of IT Costs, Quality and Consumption
Apptio’s Bill of IT application provides transparency of IT by delivering chargeback or showback in a language your business leaders understand:
- Automatically produce monthly statements that help you communicate the cost and value trade-offs for your IT services
- Demonstrate the cost and value benefits of adopting new technologies
- Provide tiered service-level offerings (e.g., Platinum, Gold and Silver levels of e-mail service) to provide more cost-effective alternatives to the business
- Clearly communicate the levers your business leaders have at their disposal for adjusting consumption, cost and quality of their IT services
Value: Start having productive conversations with your business leaders in order to balance demand with the cost, quality and value of IT services.
Improve Short- and Long-Term Infrastructure Planning and Investment Decisions
Apptio’s IT Planning application automates analysis and streamlines decision making:
- Provide real-time budgeting, forecasting, demand and resource planning against your key performance indicators (KPIs), such as unit cost reduction goals
- Assess your long-term costs to support new services, applications, and technologies
- Align IT product and service supply and demand by improving collaboration between corporate finance, IT, and the lines of business
Value: Look further ahead in your planning horizon to better align your IT infrastructure investments with the needs of your business.
Easy to Get Started. Quick Time to Value.
Just a few days with your data, your people, and our technology can help you understand your cloud-related costs to make more informed decisions. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to Technology Business Management, Apptio dramatically accelerates your decision-making capabilities with packaged application accelerators, a proven methodology, and best practices. Furthermore, our Technology Business Management CIO Council and end-user community serve as peer reference resources that will transform the way you manage the cost, quality and value of IT.
Need proof? Let us demonstrate our capabilities online. We’re so confident that once you see the power of Apptio’s applications, you’ll be ready for the next step: an onsite proof of value project that will demonstrate profound new insights in just a few days.
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Apptio IT Infrastructure Cost Optimization
A Methodology and Solution Suite for Maximizing the ROI of Infrastructure Initiatives
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