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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Tech Investments
Innovations from Apptio, an IBM Company
Modern, AI-infused solutions
Accelerate data analysis | Increase visibility | Drive efficiency
Grounded in 17 years of TBM innovation and backed by IBM Research, Apptio delivers purpose-built AI solutions that turn islands of untapped data into critical insights. Easily unify and prepare financial, operational, and organizational data from across your organization for democratized, defensible insights that foster accountability, efficiency, and agility.
- AI Lens
- Conversational insights
- AI mapping
- Data mapping
AI-powered cloud analysis and insights
AI Lens is a new Cloudability feature that uses generative AI to analyze and summarize complex cloud data from multiple sources, reducing the cognitive load on users. It quickly highlights key trends, outliers, and patterns, helping customers identify top cost and usage drivers without manually pivoting reports. By surfacing presentation-ready insights and connecting them to optimization recommendations, AI Lens eliminates the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manual analysis. It enables users to understand what’s driving costs, uncover hidden dynamics, and avoid “you don’t know what you don’t know” pitfalls—making cloud data analysis faster, clearer, and more actionable.
Coming soon to Conversational Insights:
Natural language queries, real-time insights
IBM Apptio AI Assistant introduces Conversational Insights, which allows users to ask natural language questions about their actual costing, planning, and billing data from IBM Apptio products. This reduces training needs, accelerates decision-making, and expands adoption across technical and business teams. By embedding AI directly into the platform—rather than relying on third-party tools—IBM Apptio delivers fast, accurate insights aligned to governed cost models. It eliminates delays caused by complex data and reliance on TBM experts, boosts ITFM team productivity, and builds trust in financial data. Backed by IBM’s leading AI research, this purpose-built solution transforms IT financial management with a true conversational experience.
AI-assisted third-party data mapping
AI-Assisted 3rd-party Data Mapping is a new Cloudability feature that uses generative AI to automate the mapping, transformation, and validation of vendor billing and usage data into the standard FOCUS schema. By leveraging IBM Granite models via watsonx.ai, it aligns inconsistent formats and naming conventions, handles schema drift, and runs automated checks to ensure data quality. This reduces manual effort, accelerates onboarding, and improves trust in financial insights. Customers benefit from faster ingestion, reusable mappings across environments, and the ability to onboard new cloud service providers quickly—gaining immediate visibility into cloud cost and usage across diverse data sources.
AI/ML data classification and normalization
IBM Apptio introduces AI-powered data intelligence to accelerate and improve IT Financial Management outcomes. Using LLM-based classification and mapping, it categorizes general ledger entries, vendors, and assets against the ATUM taxonomy, while data normalization and enrichment enhance data quality for more personalized recommendations. These capabilities reduce manual mapping by over 80%, streamline onboarding, and improve accuracy in cost allocations and reporting. Customers benefit from consistent classification across teams and regions, automated mapping of standard datasets, and confident, AI-generated cost allocation proposals. This dramatically improves operational efficiency and decision-making by resolving issues with inconsistent or incomplete financial data.
Bring context to data
Accelerate time-to-value | Integrate enterprise tools more rapidly | Focus resources action rather than maintenance
Real enterprise decisions happen at the intersection of financial metrics, operational performance, and organizational capacity. Apptio unifies data across systems by directly integrating with enterprise source platforms—ERP and cloud billing data for financials, ITSM and observability tools for operations, and HR and project systems for organizational capacity. Through APIs, connectors, and automated ingestion pipelines, Apptio continuously pulls, normalizes, and maps data across these domains. Our TBM solutions enable organizations to automate and accelerate manual processes to get faster answers to their technology investment questions. Unlike point products that only address a part of the problem or home-grown tools that require a lot of maintenance and updates, our TBM solutions alleviate the burden of manual work so that decision-makers can focus on strategy and acting on the insights.
- Cloud governance
- Cloud & IT planning
- Advanced commitments
- SPM Control Center
New integrations enable shift-left for FinOps
New integrations with GitHub and Terraform bring cost insights into development workflows, shifting FinOps to the left. Based on Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC), IBM Cloudability helps engineers understand cost impact and policy compliance before deploying—preventing inefficiencies early.
Traditionally, cost management has been reactive, allowing waste to build and spread, triggering last-minute optimization efforts. With Cloudability Governance, engineers gain proactive cost visibility and policy alignment within their regular workflows. Insights are based on Terraform IaC templates and surfaced seamlessly, enabling smarter decisions and responsible infrastructure deployment.
Better visibility into cloud and IT spend
Integrate IBM Cloudability’s Cloud Financial Planning with IBM Apptio Planning to gain end-to-end visibility across both cloud and IT spend—enabling more unified, informed financial decision-making.
This new integration enables seamless imports of cloud budgets and forecasts into your overall IT financial plans. A new Cloud tab in Apptio Planning offers a centralized view to manage cloud-related expenses alongside traditional infrastructure, supporting more accurate, comprehensive, and aligned planning.
Advanced, business-aware commitment recommendations
Cloudability is advancing its industry-leading commitment capabilities, enabling organizations to capture their commitment preferences such as payment types, term lengths, and coverage strategies and use them as a recommendation baseline. Users can now aggregate these recommendations at the vendor level, making it clear what the total saving opportunity is, and then drill down by service as needed. Standard ways of further adjusting the recommendations are available including coverage percentage, investment amount and minimum sustained usage, These unlock analysis that supports a top-down commitment strategy and individual purchase decisions. Rolling out standard metrics for Effective Savings Rate and Coverage also helps FinOps practitioners focus on targets and benchmark performance, enabling teams to maximize discounts across their entire commitment program.
Unify strategy, execution, and financial insight in one view
The SPM Control Center empowers organizations to track every dollar and hour, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Built on the IBM Targetprocess and IBM Apptio platforms, it extends Strategic Portfolio Management with seamless connections to Apptio’s financial data and insights to unify strategic planning, work execution, workforce optimization, and financial management together in one system. Tailored views for CxOs, EPMOs, and finance teams provide real-time visibility into progress, costs, and outcomes. By centralizing decision-making, SPM Control Center eliminates silos, accelerates execution, and enables leaders to make informed decisions with confidence. It helps organizations align work to strategy, optimize resources, and deliver consistent value—while maintaining a clear financial picture across the business.
Uncover insights
Increase insight and visibility | Identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities | Improve risk management
- TCO solutions
- Kubecost 3.0
- Focused reporting
- Report studio
- Workforce management
- Advanced containers
Unlock IT value with TCO insights
Understanding total cost of ownership (TCO) is vital to realizing value from investments in apps, services, and infrastructure. IBM Apptio offers fast, out-of-the-box insights into complete IT costs.
Mainframe TCO is a purpose-built solution that delivers a defensible view of mainframe costs and usage. It reveals detailed insights into total costs, consumption trends, and cost allocation—helping organizations manage spend and guide modernization.
Hybrid IT TCO Impact provides a continuous financial view of application migrations across the hybrid IT landscape. It tracks the financial impact of app migration and repatriation, offering comprehensive visibility into cost drivers and supporting confident investment decisions.
AI TCO & Usage tracks the full lifecycle of AI investments, offering transparent insights into ongoing costs and usage across models, solutions, and business units. It supports smarter scaling and responsible AI consumption across the organization.
Faster, smarter, and built for scale
Packed with significant new capabilities and enhancements, IBM Kubecost 3.0 sets a new standard for teams applying FinOps practices to Kubernetes.
IBM Kubecost 3.0 includes massive performance enhancements resulting from architecture modernization, a new unified cluster agent, a database upgrade, and improved topology to better support scaling and resiliency. This release provides enhanced cost optimization capabilities with new and improved cluster and container rightsizing, as well as automation tools for centralized container request sizing across an entire K8s estate. It delivers major upgrades to allocations and collections that simplify the effort needed to create accurate, comprehensive showback and chargeback reports.
Quicker cloud insights for non-technical users
This release brings a new “focused” mode to IBM Cloudability’s core reporting feature, which is used to explore and visualize cost and usage data. This new reporting experience will also become the landing page for users into Cloudability.
Focused Mode brings a simpler, more intuitive way to explore cloud cost and usage data in Cloudability reports—ideal for non-technical users who need quick insights. It complements our existing Advanced Reporting, giving teams both power and ease depending on their needs.
Quicker cloud insights for non-technical users
This release brings a new “focused” mode to IBM Cloudability’s core reporting feature, which is used to explore and visualize cost and usage data. This new reporting experience will also become the landing page for users into Cloudability.
Focused Mode brings a simpler, more intuitive way to explore cloud cost and usage data in Cloudability reports—ideal for non-technical users who need quick insights. It complements our existing Advanced Reporting, giving teams both power and ease depending on their needs.
A more powerful, flexible reporting experience
Introducing the new IBM Apptio Report Studio: built for speed, clarity, and control. Designed around user feedback, this modern experience features a clean interface, drag-and-drop canvas, autosave, and streamlined editing to accelerate report creation and reduce friction. Enhanced navigation, searchable metrics, and in-app guidance make it easier to find answers and share insights. With improved layout tools, 508-compliant accessibility, and new visualizations like bar charts and KPIs, with more on the way, you can now build polished, informative reports faster than ever. Built on the IBM Carbon Design System, it’s a smarter, more intuitive way to drive decisions across IT financial management.
Connect talent, spend, and strategic goals in a single view
Now available in IBM Targetprocess, Workforce Management & Optimization helps organizations align every role to strategy while controlling costs. By connecting talent, spend, and strategic goals in a single view, it empowers EPMO and Strategy leaders to plan proactively and IT Finance leaders to optimize investments. This capability enables organizations to measure capacity, identify skill gaps, and align workforce planning with budget realities—ensuring the right people are doing the right work at the right cost. With clear visibility into workforce allocation, leaders can confidently balance execution needs with financial constraints, reduce inefficiencies, and deliver more value without overspending.
The full power of Kubecost added to Cloudability
IBM Cloudability Advanced Containers, powered by Kubecost, brings real-time Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization directly into the Cloudability platform. This add-on bridges the gap between engineering execution and financial governance by embedding granular, container-level insights into a unified experience. DevOps and application teams gain actionable data to control spend during development, while FinOps maintains centralized oversight. Supporting any Kubernetes environment—cloud, hybrid, or on-prem—this solution eliminates silos, accelerates decision-making, and aligns teams around shared cost-efficiency goals. By enabling proactive optimization and accurate forecasting, Cloudability Advanced Containers helps organizations reduce waste, improve budget adherence, and strengthen collaboration between Finance and engineering.
Action autonomously
In today’s fast-moving environment, insight without action is not enough. Apptio closes the loop by enabling organizations to automate recommendations and execute with confidence. From optimizing cloud spend to reallocating budgets or simulating “what if” scenarios, Apptio empowers teams to move from analysis to action seamlessly. AI further amplifies this capability by learning from decisions and continuously improving recommendations. The result: smarter, faster, and more autonomous technology management.
- Anomaly detection
- Cloud forecasting
- Intelligent forecasting
Action cloud cost anomalies via Jira or ServiceNow
IBM Cloudability now allows users to seamlessly track and action cost events with a new integration between the Anomaly Detection feature and Jira or ServiceNow.
The Anomaly Detection feature surfaces unexpected cloud spend and cost events in near real-time, so teams can act before these issues become costly. With new two-way integrations to ServiceNow and Jira, anomalies can be turned into actionable tickets that enable teams to quickly assign, investigate, and resolve them within their existing workflows. This closes the loop between insight and action, enabling faster response times and greater cost accountability.
Accurate cloud cost forecasting powered by watsonx
IBM Cloudability’s Cloud Financial Planning forecasts now benefit from significantly improved accuracy, powered by IBM’s Predictive Forecasting (watsonx). Each forecast line item is evaluated independently, allowing the system to tailor the model to the specific historical trend of that item. The result is a more accurate, blended forecast—leading to greater confidence in your planning and financial decisions.
Cloud Forecasting delivers even greater improved accuracy for the current month forecast with daily granularity. This ensures consistency across all product areas that use the current month estimate, including KPIs, Forecast Summary, and Forecast Variance pages.
Automated predictions based on historical spend and trends
IBM Apptio Planning Intelligent Forecasting uses machine learning and time-series models to automatically generate accurate forecasts from historical spend and trends, with built-in outlier detection to identify and remove anomalies. This reduces manual effort, improves forecast accuracy, and enables teams to plan future periods with greater confidence. By replacing guesswork with data-driven insights, Intelligent Forecasting helps organizations make smarter financial decisions and stay ahead of budget needs.
Transform tech spend to business value
Managing the complex landscape of technology investments isn’t easy. Expert insights and tailored resources can help you navigate the challenges.