Apptio IT Planning Foundation
Transform planning from tactical exercise to strategic discipline
For current Apptio Cost Transparency customers, Apptio IT Planning automates and accelerates the IT planning process, fostering greater accountability, increased plan accuracy, and the agility to free up budget to fund other initiatives.
Increase productivity
Accelerate planning cycles and automate data aggregation and report creation.
Align resources to business needs
Create and compare multi-year scenarios.
Reduce budget variance
Forecast more frequently and hold budget owners accountable for spend.
Accelerate the annual budget process
- Track plan versions, status and approvals with collaborative workflow capabilities
- Access self-service analytics for review and explanation of variances by budget owners
- Create budgets, forecasts and scenarios at a click of a button
Redirect resources flexibly
- Modify budgets and forecasts to see the immediate impact of business changes on spend.
- Create what-if scenarios quickly for contract renewals, hiring, and capacity.
- Develop rolling forecasts to improve out-quarter budgeting.
Develop a strategic planning horizon
- Create resource plans up to six years into the future.
- Automatically build multi-year contract and asset line items from the prior year.
- Create and compare multi-year scenarios.
Additional Resources
06/26/2020
7 Pitfalls of IT Budgeting and Forecasting
Barry Whittle
