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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Tech Investments
Innovations from Apptio, an IBM Company
Embedded AI
As AI spreads across the enterprise and investment accelerates, organizations need AI‑infused capabilities to manage increasing technology complexity. IBM TBM solutions embed AI, machine learning, and generative AI to support decisions with forecasting, anomaly detection, and natural‑language insights—helping teams proactively optimize cost, performance, and risk across hybrid IT.
- Conversational insights
- Intelligent forecasting
- FOCUS agent
- AI Data Assistant
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.
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.
AI-powered FOCUS mapping for any technology spend
FOCUS Auto Mapping AI Agent removes the complexity of standardizing disparate billing data by automatically transforming raw cost inputs into the FOCUS format. Using advanced LLM capabilities, it intelligently maps fields across vendors, while giving administrators the ability to review, adjust, and validate rules in a guided console.
Integrated with Apptio Datalink, it supports ingestion through cloud storage, APIs, SFTP, and Datadrop, making it easy to onboard data from any source. This reduces manual effort, speeds time to value, and improves data accuracy. With technology spend centralized in Cloudability, organizations can unlock capabilities such as business mapping, cost allocation, reporting, and actionable dashboards to support better decision making.
AI-powered data intelligence
IBM Apptio delivers AI-powered data readiness that simplifies and strengthens IT financial management. Using LLM-based classification and mapping, we automatically align general ledger entries, vendors, assets, and standard datasets to the ATUM taxonomy—cutting manual effort by up to 80%.
Data normalization and enrichment improve consistency and usability, supporting more accurate cost allocation and reporting. With guided validation, confidence scoring, and cross-region consistency, you can onboard faster and trust your data. Paired with advanced network monitoring insights, you gain deeper visibility into cost drivers, optimize spend, and make faster, more informed decisions at scale.
Automation
IBM TBM solutions help organizations operate at hybrid IT speed and scale by automating ingestion, normalization, and allocation of cost and usage data across on‑prem, cloud, SaaS, and AI. Built‑in hybrid integration and early governance reduce manual work, eliminate fragmented tools, accelerate insights, and enable real‑time, automated decision‑making.
- Cloud governance
- ServiceNow Business Mapping
- Automated quota
- Integrated cloud
- Advanced rightsizing
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.
Drive cost allocation and business rules from ServiceNow
This integration connects Cloudability Business Mapping with ServiceNow, so you can manage cost allocation rules directly from your ITSM and CMDB system. By using ServiceNow as your single source of truth, you can automatically create and update business mapping rules from CMDB data, reducing manual effort and limiting errors.
The dedicated ServiceNow app links business dimensions to Cloudability to keep cost ownership aligned and up to date. This streamlined approach simplifies operations, speeds up rule management, and improves accuracy, helping you scale financial governance with confidence in your cost allocation and reporting.
Automated Kubernetes request and quota optimization
Kubecost simplifies Kubernetes resource management by bringing container request resizing and Resource Quota synchronization into a single automated workflow. This approach removes the need for manual quota updates that often fall out of date as workloads change, helping reduce wasted capacity and avoid deployment constraints.
Building on our Resource Quota Rightsizing capability, Kubecost adds configurable lookback periods, profile settings, and audit logging so you have clear visibility and control. Your teams can keep quota guardrails aligned with actual usage, improve efficiency, and scale with confidence—while lowering operational overhead and maintaining accurate, consistent resource allocation across environments.
Streamlined cloud integration for faster value
Kubecost delivers a streamlined cloud integration experience that removes common barriers to getting started, making setup and troubleshooting faster and easier. By simplifying the connection workflow, we help you quickly link your cloud environments and build a reliable foundation for cost visibility and optimization. This improved experience reduces onboarding friction, shortens time to value, and lowers the effort required to maintain accurate cost data.
With clearer setup steps and more efficient troubleshooting, you can move from integration to insight faster—so teams can focus on optimizing spend and driving better financial outcomes with confidence and consistency.
Advanced cost and performance optimization insights
Cloudability now integrates Turbonomic-generated actions to deliver advanced optimization that balances cost efficiency with application performance. You can see both savings and investment recommendations directly in Cloudability, bringing financial insights and real-time performance intelligence together in a single interface.
This helps DevOps, engineering, and FinOps teams confidently rightsize resources—reducing overprovisioning while protecting application health. By unifying cost visibility, ownership, and policy controls with automated, performance-driven actions, you can act immediately on optimization opportunities. The result is faster decisions, less waste, better performance outcomes, and a more mature, data-driven approach to cloud financial management.
Intelligence & value insights
- Data Center TCO
- Explore reporting
- Report studio
- Advanced containers
- Custom pricing
Unified data center cost and capacity intelligence
IBM Apptio Data Center TCO provides a unified view of the total cost of owning and operating your data center footprint. By connecting financial, facility, and operational data in a single model, organizations gain clarity into cost drivers, unit economics, and capacity constraints across power, cooling, and space. This end‑to‑end visibility surfaces available headroom, enables accurate showback and chargeback, and reveals optimization opportunities. Built on Apptio’s market‑leading cost allocation framework, Data Center TCO aligns infrastructure costs to applications and business units, empowering leaders to control spend and confidently plan future data center investments.
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.
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.
In-product enterprise custom pricing management
Kubecost v3.2 introduces a new in-product UI that makes Enterprise Custom Pricing easier to manage. Teams can upload, replace, validate, review, and remove CSV pricing specifications directly in the product, without relying only on configuration workflows. A clear tabular view gives you visibility into pricing data, while built-in validation helps ensure accuracy before changes are applied.
You can also see when updates will retroactively affect pricing across specific date ranges, giving you more confidence and control. This streamlined experience reduces operational friction, improves transparency, and helps organizations manage complex pricing models more efficiently across environments.