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IBM ApptioUnlock the Full Potential of Your Tech Investments
Innovations from Apptio, an IBM Company
Modern, AI-infused solutions for technology investment challenges in the AI era
The world is entering the next wave of intelligent applications – applications that are self-healing, self-scaling, infused with AI and built with cloud-native architectures. While these intelligent apps help advance business strategies, they introduce more complexity and more data, making it harder to connect technology to the business value they deliver.
Technology spend is one of the areas that has become increasingly difficult to manage and optimize using spreadsheets and homegrown or point solutions. The dynamic nature of cloud spend, the prevalence of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, the distributed nature of technology and the teams that use it mean that organizations need AI-infused tools to intelligently process technology spend data at scale.
Apptio, an IBM company, has partnered with IBM Research—a long time leader in AI research—to develop TBM solutions that infuse AI, including both ML generative AI, into the practice areas of IT Financial Management (ITFM), FinOps, and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM). Purpose-built for modern, intelligent applications and focused on delivering improved business outcomes, our AI-infused TBM applications lead the industry in automation and intelligent, domain-specific insights.
Automation: accelerating insights and processes
Accelerate time-to-value | Integrate enterprise tools more rapidly | Focus resources action rather than maintenance
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.
- Kubecost
- Tech emissions
- Software capitalization
- Unit economics
New IBM Kubecost integrations
The new integrations between Kubecost and IBM solutions Turbonomic and Instana are part of our goal of providing a comprehensive suite of FinOps solutions, unmatched in capabilities by any single provider. The Turbonomic integration enables Kubecost users to obtain additional cost information on actions recommended by Turbonomic to enhance the cost savings capabilities of Kubecost. The Instana integration empowers teams to visualize cost data alongside application performance metrics in one place, making it easier to optimize resources while maintaining reliability.
These integrations offer deeper savings insights and opportunities to further reduce spend without affecting performance and reliability. They further enhance the market-leading capabilities of the IBM FinOps suite, especially for teams working with the challenges of Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization.
Get a unified view of IT carbon emissions
Apptio Technology Emissions Management (TEM) equips businesses with the tools to measure and manage the environmental impact of IT. Leveraging integrations with IBM Cloudability and IBM Apptio, these solutions provide visibility into carbon emissions across cloud and on-prem environments.
Many companies struggle to get a holistic picture of their overall carbon footprint. Although cloud service providers offer APIs for estimating, reconciling, and optimizing operating costs, they have only now begun to make cloud carbon footprint-related APIs available. These APIs only report at an aggregated level, which makes it impossible for customers to understand their cloud carbon footprint at a resource or application level. By combining cost and carbon metrics, TEM enables granular tracking, actionable insights, and automated reporting, allowing IT leaders to optimize resource allocation, reduce emissions, and align with evolving ESG and regulatory standards like CSRD and California SB 261.
Align Agile work with financial and governance needs for streamlined operations
IBM Targetprocess, a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) platform, has enhanced its Software Capitalization capabilities, aligning Agile work with financial and governance needs for efficiency. The updates are built to scale effortlessly across enterprise processes, reducing the need for complex customizations.
By providing a flexible framework, IBM Targetprocess Software Capitalization seamlessly integrates with existing workflows, providing accurate tracking and allocation of software costs. The capabilities simplify monthly reporting and help organizations allocate and calculate your Operating Expenses (OpEx) to Capital Expenditures (CapEx) ratio more accurately. With built-in scalability, teams can now adapt the updated capabilities to their unique processes without disrupting financial operations. The result is a streamlined, reliable approach to Software Capitalization that supports compliance and improves overall cost visibility.
Ingest telemetry data
The support of telemetry data within IBM Cloudability enables customers to solve two advanced FinOps use cases. Telemetry feeds capturing data such as database transactions and API calls are useful for representing total activity and portioning that activity amongst consumers. By leveraging this information, IBM Cloudability is now able to automatically allocate shared resources and surface unit cost metrics, such as cost per transaction.
There are often buckets of costs that can’t be directly assigned to teams—they need to be split up and shared. Manually sharing these costs out each month can take many person-hours and is error-prone. Measuring the efficiency of cloud spend can be complicated due to the need to connect multiple disparate data sources. We’ve solved these issues by letting customers upload a CSV file, either manually or automatically with our public API, that contains their relevant telemetry data. End users experience the fully allocated costs and unit costs within cost analytics.
Intelligence: domain-specific TCO insights
Increase insight and visibility | Identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities | Improve risk management
As pioneers and leaders in ITFM, FinOps, and SPM, our TBM solutions bring unique, domain-specific insights that come from our experience working with 1,800+ clients. Bringing financial and operational data together to provide an accurate and defensible view of the TCO and unit rates of technology investments enables us to deliver market-relevant solutions that drive deeper insights and enable organizations to make better data-driven decisions.
- Hybrid IT TCO
- Scenario Planning
- Turbo
- Mainframe TCO
The true financial impact of application migration
With 90% of organizations adopting a hybrid cloud strategy, IT leaders face the challenge of understanding and balancing costs across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Leaders need to understand the cost impact of their application migration decisions to avoid making costly mistakes.
IBM Apptio Costing Standard’s Hybrid IT TCO Impact is a purpose-built solution that provides an ongoing, defensible financial view into application migrations across a Hybrid IT landscape. It enables organizations to understand and track the impact of application migration on Total Cost of Ownership, Unit Cost, and Usage Volumes, while also giving them the insight into the underlying cost drivers behind the change.
Create, compare, and optimize planning scenarios
IBM Targetprocess has added enhanced Scenario Planning capabilities. Changes in market conditions and priorities require portfolio leaders to evaluate multiple strategic options before committing to a course of action. These capabilities will empower organizations to build and evaluate multiple plans for a given period, factor in expected work and labor, and experiment with different scenarios – such as adjusting headcount or workload – to assess potential impacts.
With the ability to compare plans based on scope and capacity, decision-makers can confidently select the best course of action. This functionality ensures a more agile and data-driven annual planning process, helping teams navigate uncertainties and optimize resources. By leveraging data-driven insights, organizations can align strategic goals with execution, mitigating risks and maximizing investments and efficiency.
Cloudability-Turbonomic integration
Better understand both performance and cost of your cloud program. Our enhanced Cloudability – Turbonomic integration creates a more seamless experience for users that not only helps manage cloud costs but also ensures that cloud application operations are optimized.
Cloud leaders need ways to not only look at cloud costs but also to see the implications of cloud cost management on application performance. This integration eliminates the need for separate toolsets. Application developers and DevOps engineers now have access to Turbonomic cost and performance optimization recommendations from within Cloudability so they can see the performance impact to their applications alongside cost information.
Optimize your mainframe environments
The IBM Apptio Mainframe TCO solution provides detailed cost transparency, allocation, and financial reporting for mainframe environments. Built on Apptio’s Costing and Billing capabilities, Mainframe TCO enables organizations to track total cost of ownership, allocate costs to apps or business units, compare mainframe versus cloud costs, and analyze usage trends. Pre-built dashboards and customizable models help IT Finance and IT leaders make informed decisions around optimization, chargeback, and modernization strategies.
Mainframe costs are complex, spanning hardware, software, licensing, labor, storage, and networking, making it difficult for IT Finance, TBM teams, and business leaders to allocate expenses accurately. By leveraging Apptio’s core Costing and Billing capabilities, this solution addresses the challenge of complex and opaque mainframe costs. It brings detailed visibility, automated cost allocation, and financial reporting to mainframe environments, providing organizations with clearer accountability, the ability to identify and reduce unnecessary spend, and accurate chargeback models that improve cost awareness across business units.
Enhancements and updates
- Sustainability
- Governance
- Planning Analytics
- IBM Apptio Essentials
- Hybrid Planning 2.0
Cloud sustainability reporting
Two new sustainability metrics added to IBM Cloudability’s reporting enable customers to better measure the sustainability impact of their cloud consumption and track trends over time.
These metrics, Estimated Carbon Emissions (MTCO2e) and Power Consumed (KwH), can be used throughout IBM Cloudability’s analytics, alongside all other cost and usage metrics, to measure the sustainability impact of cloud consumption. Calculations factor in the region, utilization of resources (key information), and CPU architecture, and have been approved by IBM Research labs. These metrics are available for popular services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Get your FinOps practice to shift left
Cost management and optimization have always been reactive processes, allowing waste and bad patterns to spread, accumulate, and then force teams into optimization fire drills.
With the new Cloudability Governance integration, engineers can better understand cost implications prior to deploying infrastructure. This proactive capability can prevent cost inefficiencies before they happen, enabling the FinOps practice to “shift left.”
Cloudability Governance integrates seamlessly into GitOps pipelines, alerting engineers to the expected cost impact of new and changing cloud workloads. It also helps them comply with internal policies around tagging, infrastructure choices, and budgets.
Bridge technology, finance, and business with IBM Apptio and IBM Planning Analytics
IBM Apptio and IBM Planning Analytics work together to bridge the gap between technology, finance, and the business. IBM Planning Analytics is a versatile platform that streamlines and accelerates business planning processes across the organization, focusing on budgeting, planning, and forecasting to adapt quickly to market changes.
IBM Apptio specifically caters to IT finance, CIOs, and technology leaders by providing integrated financial management for technology investments. It improves transparency and alignment, enabling enhanced planning, management, and optimization of all technology spend, resources, and value. Together, these solutions enhance organizational agility, shorten planning cycles, maximize financial impact, and promote greater alignment across the business.
Streamlined tools for effective IT Financial Management
IBM Apptio Essentials Suite offers foundational, streamlined tools for Costing, Planning, Billing, and Benchmarking, providing a solid foundation for IT financial management.
It bridges the gap between IT and Finance, delivering a clear and actionable view of IT spending and offering granular insights into costs by service, department, project, and more. This visibility enables leaders and business units to understand where every dollar is going. The suite delivers clear financial insights and control, which is ideal for organizations looking to start or simplify their IT financial operations. Easily manage costs, improve financial planning, ensure accurate billing, and leverage industry benchmarks to make informed decisions and optimize IT investments — all while staying aligned with your business goals.
Balance Agile and waterfall support
Many organizations must now manage both Agile and waterfall approaches to meet evolving business needs. Traditional planning cycles often fall short, creating demand for hybrid solutions that offer visibility across different methodologies.
Hybrid Planning 2.0 enhancements allow organizations to better manage both waterfall and Agile methodologies in a unified platform. With enhanced waterfall entities, advanced reporting features, and new hybrid dashboards, teams can visualize work more effectively and align with short-term and long-term goals. The expanded flexibility in work and plan structures ensures project managers can dynamically allocate resources, track progress, and make real-time adjustments. The hybrid capability caters to complex enterprise environments by enabling better control of dependencies, milestone tracking, and financial planning, ensuring that all projects tie into overarching business strategies. It provides a unified framework for improving team collaboration, agility, and efficiency in mixed-methodology environments.
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.
