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IBM TARGETPROCESS CAPABILITY
Financial Integration
Connect portfolio decisions with financial planning and cost management
Financial Integration for Strategic Portfolio Management
Financial integration is a core capability of strategic portfolio management. It connects investment decisions to how work is planned, delivered, and measured, helping organizations understand the true cost of work and make better portfolio tradeoffs as priorities change. In IBM Targetprocess, financial integration brings financial context directly into portfolio execution, linking labor, cost, and value to initiatives, programs, and value streams
Financial integration enables
- Automated labor budgeting and forecasting using real-time work, velocity, and capacity data
- Audit-ready software capitalization at the story, feature, and epic levels
- Defensible cost allocation based on actual labor hours tied to products and services
- Cost-to-value visibility that aligns labor spend with business outcomes
- Agile and finance alignment to support real-time reporting, compliance, and governance
Financial Integrations features
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Defensible cost allocation
- Software capitalization
- Value realization
Budgeting & forecasting
Align budgets and forecasts to live portfolio execution using real-time work, velocity, and capacity data as priorities and delivery conditions change.
Defensible cost allocation enhanced with IBM Apptio
Allocate labor costs using execution data from IBM Targetprocess, mapped into Apptio’s enterprise financial models to support defensible, finance-owned cost allocation across products and services.
Software capitalization
Support software capitalization at the story, feature, and epic levels with clear traceability between work, effort, and delivery, maintaining audit-ready records.
Value realization
Connect execution to outcomes by linking work to initiatives and value streams, enabling visibility into cost-to-value across the portfolio.
Typical customer outcomes
Faster time to market
Budget captured to fund innovation
Growth in talent
From cost transparency to continuous optimization with ITFM and SPM
Companies today are under pressure to prove not just where money is being spent, but what value it’s delivering to the business. In this episode, hosts of ITFM Insights and Amplify Agile team up to explore how connecting IT Financial Management and Strategic Portfolio Management helps leaders make faster, smarter, more outcome-driven decision
Connecting IT Financial Management and Strategic Portfolio Management
Financial Management and Strategic Portfolio Management work best together. Portfolio planning determines what work is funded and delivered, while financial management ensures investment is governed, tracked, and measured. By integrating IBM Targetprocess and IBM Apptio, portfolio execution and IT financial insight are connected. Execution data is combined with financial models to provide clear visibility into cost, investment, and value across the portfolio. ITFM + SPM integration enables:
- Financial insight grounded in real portfolio execution, not static plans
- Defensible allocation of IT spend tied to actual work and services
- Audit-ready software capitalization aligned to delivery reality
- Cost-to-value visibility across initiatives, products, and value streams