Apptio Cost Transparency automates analysis of your available IT cost data so you can quickly uncover insights to drive business value.
Optimize costs
Make informed decisions from a single system of record.
Shift run-to-change
Optimize RTB spend to fund future digital business innovation.
Communicate value
Demonstrate IT value with terms the business understands.
Proactively manage IT spend to budget
- Manage variance in the context of major areas of IT spend like software, hardware, and internal/external labor.
- Identify spending trends and the specific line items and cost center owners that are driving variances.
- Monitor OpEx and CapEx variance and your mix of fixed versus variable costs.
Make informed staffing decisions
- Manage hiring of internal and external labor against plan.
- Understand and compare average monthly cost of staff across geographies and role types.
- Identify outliers to responsibly shift internal/external labor mix or change hiring plans.
Understand infrastructure costs and trends
- See what’s driving infrastructure costs across network, compute, storage, and data center assets.
- Monitor how much infrastructure cost goes to supporting applications.
- Understand how infrastructure costs break down across internal and external labor, software, hardware, and facility/power costs.
Align project resources to business priorities
- Provide trade-offs to the business to better align project and application investments to business initiatives.
- In business terms, explain where project costs are going across each BU.
- Quantify how much IT spend is going toward run costs versus growth investments and projects.
Drive shared accountability of IT costs with the business
- In business language, explain what each BU is getting for its IT dollars and what they can do to impact bottom line costs.
- Align IT projects and investments to business initiatives and sponsors.
- Identify cost outliers by benchmarking IT spend per employee across BUs.
Manage the application portfolio for business value
- Quantify the business value your applications deliver by tying cost to business drivers (e.g. cost per web visitor, order, etc.).
- Know the cost of your top 20 applications and how they break down across run versus dev, infrastructure, and projects.
- Show how BUs are consuming each application, along with the associated costs.
Technology business management means running technology like a business. And if you're going to have a successful business, you have to have an amazing culture. You can't separate the two.
