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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
- AI Lens
- AI mapping
- Data mapping
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 cloud analysis and insights
AI Lens is a new Cloudability feature that uses generative AI to analyze and summarize complex cloud data from multiple sources, reducing the cognitive load on users. It quickly highlights key trends, outliers, and patterns, helping customers identify top cost and usage drivers without manually pivoting reports. By surfacing presentation-ready insights and connecting them to optimization recommendations, AI Lens eliminates the time-consuming and error-prone nature of manual analysis. It enables users to understand what’s driving costs, uncover hidden dynamics, and avoid “you don’t know what you don’t know” pitfalls—making cloud data analysis faster, clearer, and more actionable.
AI-assisted third-party data mapping
AI-Assisted 3rd-party Data Mapping is a new Cloudability feature that uses generative AI to automate the mapping, transformation, and validation of vendor billing and usage data into the standard FOCUS schema. By leveraging IBM Granite models via watsonx.ai, it aligns inconsistent formats and naming conventions, handles schema drift, and runs automated checks to ensure data quality. This reduces manual effort, accelerates onboarding, and improves trust in financial insights. Customers benefit from faster ingestion, reusable mappings across environments, and the ability to onboard new cloud service providers quickly—gaining immediate visibility into cloud cost and usage across diverse data sources.
AI/ML data classification and normalization
IBM Apptio introduces AI-powered data intelligence to accelerate and improve IT Financial Management outcomes. Using LLM-based classification and mapping, it categorizes general ledger entries, vendors, and assets against the ATUM taxonomy, while data normalization and enrichment enhance data quality for more personalized recommendations. These capabilities reduce manual mapping by over 80%, streamline onboarding, and improve accuracy in cost allocations and reporting. Customers benefit from consistent classification across teams and regions, automated mapping of standard datasets, and confident, AI-generated cost allocation proposals. This dramatically improves operational efficiency and decision-making by resolving issues with inconsistent or incomplete financial data.
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
- Cloud & IT planning
- Advanced commitments
- SPM Control Center
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.
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.
Advanced, business-aware commitment recommendations
Cloudability is advancing its industry-leading commitment capabilities, enabling organizations to capture their commitment preferences such as payment types, term lengths, and coverage strategies and use them as a recommendation baseline. Users can now aggregate these recommendations at the vendor level, making it clear what the total saving opportunity is, and then drill down by service as needed. Standard ways of further adjusting the recommendations are available including coverage percentage, investment amount and minimum sustained usage, These unlock analysis that supports a top-down commitment strategy and individual purchase decisions. Rolling out standard metrics for Effective Savings Rate and Coverage also helps FinOps practitioners focus on targets and benchmark performance, enabling teams to maximize discounts across their entire commitment program.
Unify strategy, execution, and financial insight in one view
The SPM Control Center empowers organizations to track every dollar and hour, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Built on the IBM Targetprocess and IBM Apptio platforms, it extends Strategic Portfolio Management with seamless connections to Apptio’s financial data and insights to unify strategic planning, work execution, workforce optimization, and financial management together in one system. Tailored views for CxOs, EPMOs, and finance teams provide real-time visibility into progress, costs, and outcomes. By centralizing decision-making, SPM Control Center eliminates silos, accelerates execution, and enables leaders to make informed decisions with confidence. It helps organizations align work to strategy, optimize resources, and deliver consistent value—while maintaining a clear financial picture across the business.
Intelligence & value insights
- Data Center TCO
- Explore reporting
- Report studio
- Advanced containers
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.