Technology Business Management

Connecting Technology Investments to Business Value

What is Technology Business Management (TBM)?

TBM is a discipline that improves business outcomes by giving organizations a consistent way to translate technology investments to business value by defining the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Based on a standard taxonomy that can be used by technology, finance and business leaders, TBM enables organizations to react quickly to changing market dynamics, make data-driven decisions, and align organizations around a common business objective. Visit the TBM Council’s website to learn more.

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The TBM Landscape

TBM Use Cases

A common discipline for embracing technology leadership challenges

IT Finance

  • Optimize run budget to invest in growth
  • Infra/vendor/application TCO
  • Consumption-based chargeback/showback
  • Dynamic planning (e.g. monthly)

Cloud

  • Confidence in cloud migration plans
  • Financial accountability for IaaS spend
  • Optimization of SaaS vendors & licenses

Agile

  • Funding/tracking value streams of new innovation
  • Aligning development labor to business outcomes
  • Allocating resources in real-time to portfolios
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What is the TBM Council?

Led by an independent board of directors, the TBM Council is a non profit business entity dedicated to advancing the discipline of TBM through education, standards, and collaboration.

Born out of Apptio’s biannual TBM Summits in 2012, Apptio is the founder and technical advisor to the community.

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The Apptio TBM Unified Model

The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business. ATUM is ingrained in Apptio's SaaS applications and incorporates the TBM Taxonomy, the backbone of the TBM discipline.

“Once we embedded Apptio for use in the organization, this enabled the leadership team to take operational control of budgets. As a result, we were able to ensure that costs became transparent and cost drivers were understood more clearly.”

Bushan
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