Are you spending too much or not enough on technology?
Modern CFOs rely on Apptio for data-driven insights about their technology investments. Armed with this knowledge, they improve resilience, increase operating efficiency, and position for future economic growth.
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Apptio offers a purpose-built suite of cloud-based applications that's tailored for finance organizations and integrates with your existing financial and IT systems. Our software improves technology ROI by enabling finance, IT, and business leaders to better plan, manage, and optimize technology spending.
- Surgically cut costs and increase optimization efforts
- Improve operational flexibility and financial agility
- Reduce process cycle times and improve collaboration
- Accelerate cloud migration & reduce resource over-provisioning
- Reduce budget padding and variance to plan
Apptio enables finance and IT leaders to:
Answer questions such as:
- What outcomes do I need to support by strategic priorities?
- What data will I need? Where will I find that data
- How should I organize that data to accurately expose cost levers?
Answer questions such as:
- What is the fully loaded cost of our top 10 applications?
- What is the cost by business capability? (order to cash, collaboration, end-user computing etc.)
- Where should I focus cuts, so they don’t impact critical functions?
Answer questions such as:
- What are our unit costs compared to industry peers?
- How does technology spend increase or decrease with changes in consumption?
Answer questions such as:
- What percentage of our spend is fixed/variable?
- What is our projected shift in OpEx/Capex as result of the shift to cloud and adoption of Agile delivery methodologies?
- What Agile labor activity can we capitalize?
Answer questions such as:
- What assets and resources are under-utilized?
- Where do we have idle cloud instances?
- What is the cost of duplicate or redundant applications in our portfolio?
- What opportunities do we have to move from on-demand to RI cloud instances?
- What fixed costs (on-premises data centers, compute, storage, network) will we continue to incur with a move to public cloud?
- How much will cloud adoption add to our run costs in the short term?
- What assets, resources and contracts will be impacted by option A vs B vs C? What is the impact over 1-5 years?
Answer questions such as:
- What is the business value/ROI/outcomes by investment?
- What investments can we fund based on existing capacity?
- How will the investment impact our ongoing run costs?
- Are projects or agile teams on budget?
- Are Agile development teams delivering expected value/outcomes?
Resilient Organizations Thrive After Disruption
Align
Everyone in the organization pulls in the same direction, even through disruption.
Anticipate
They search for situations that require change and are willing to act on discoveries.
Adapt
They shift business priorities and conduct accelerated scenario analysis.
Automate
They leverage a digital approach to analyzing and clarifying technology spend.
Five ways to deliver resilience
State Farm cut $130M in three years
Our journey with TBM began back in 2017 and we were really trying to answer a question about the overall effectiveness and efficiency of IT.
The Challenge
The Solution
As a mutual company, State Farm is owned by its policyholders. This puts them at the center of every investment the company makes. The goal is to constantly improve the customer experience while providing desirable products at the lowest possible price. A big gap was understanding our cost structure. Even those of us within IT struggled to know where we were making investments and getting an appropriate return.
This lack of understanding hampered the company’s efforts to roll out the digital products that State Farm customers wanted. Case in point: Several years ago State Farm deployed an on-line quoting and application tool. Customers weren’t using it as expected because there were “dropout points” throughout the process.
State Farm used Apptio to lift the veil on IT spending by showing how technology spend is connected from the general ledger, through IT’s services and infrastructure to the application layer – and ultimately to the service. For example, business units (BU) can see the exact cost of developing and fielding a new application in terms of support, networking, development hours, internal and external labor costs, storage costs, cloud, and all the other costs that go into the process. Apptio and TBM also support endless “what-if” scenario modeling that allows IT to show how alternatives like sourcing the application from a cloud provider will impact the bottom lines of the BU and IT. In the past three years, IT cut $130M in storage costs. And with further insights into infrastructure costs, consumption, utilization, and capacity, they delayed or eliminated the purchase of additional hardware, software and service contracts in multiple areas, saving both CapEx and OpEx dollars.