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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Tech Investments
Innovations from Apptio, an IBM Company
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.
- Kubecost 3.0
- Tech emissions
- Software capitalization
- Unit economics
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.
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.
Uncover insights
Increase insight and visibility | Identify inefficiencies and optimization opportunities | Improve risk management
- TCO Solutions
- Anomaly Detection
- Scenario Planning
- Turbo
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Cloud Governance
- Cloud Forecasting
- Cloud & IT Planning
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.
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.
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.
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.
