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Smarter IT spend, greater impact
As IT portfolios expand in size and complexity, manual processes can no longer keep pace with the growth. To manage costs and optimize performance, organizations need a modern, integrated approach. By gaining a comprehensive view of IT investments, companies can move beyond supporting run-the-business essentials to actively driving innovation and delivering measurable business value.
IBM Apptio’s IT Financial Management (ITFM) solutions empower organizations to take control of their IT spend, uncover actionable insights, and align IT investments with business outcomes.
- Optimize your budget: Achieve 3–5% savings or redirect spend to higher-value initiatives
- Accelerate planning: Cut planning cycle time by 75% in just 4 weeks—with <1% variance
- Speed up insights: Answer ad-hoc cost questions 95% faster
- Rationalize your portfolio: Eliminate or consolidate over 25% of your application inventory
What if improving your IT financial management practice wasn’t a massive transformation, but a series of practical, achievable steps?
The ITFM Maturity Model turns a complex discipline into a clear journey, helping you pinpoint your current state and confidently chart a course toward greater efficiency and business impact.
Trusted by leading ITFM practitioners
Drive IT Financial Management insights across your organization
Integrate operational and financial data from across the enterprise and translate that data into terms that stakeholders across the business can understand: outcomes.
Modernize IT finance
Bring modern efficiency to IT planning and cost management. Structure your financial and operational data automatically, enabling a complete and connected view into IT spend. Eliminate manual, error-prone processes involving spreadsheets and build more rigor into your ITFM practice.
Fast, accurate insights
Transform your key enterprise data into actionable insights that drive smarter IT investment decisions. Build a scalable ITFM foundation with our financial modeling engine, honed through 16 years of industry-leading innovation.
Optimize costs
Optimize, lower, or reallocate IT spend by reducing waste, eliminating duplications, and aligning investments to strategic priorities. Streamline budgeting and forecasting processes to better track variance and support showback and chargeback.
IBM Apptio features
IBM Apptio is purpose-built to handle your IT spend. Navigating the challenges of IT financial management requires a robust, integrated solution that offers clarity, control, and value. IBM Apptio provides a comprehensive view of IT spend, enabling organizations to align tech investments with business priorities, ensuring every dollar spent is a step towards achieving strategic goals.
Costing: foundational cost transparency
Eliminate the error-prone and time-consuming world of spreadsheets and automate IT cost consolidation with data from systems you already own.
Planning: optimize budgeting and forecasting
Unify financial data to create a repeatable, accurate, and collaborative planning process with automated data ingestion.
Billing: IT billing the business understands
Deliver defensible billing with automated showback and chargeback that demonstrates the value of IT to increase accountability and drive behavior changes.
Benchmarking: track performance and validate decisions
Compare your costs to self-selected peers to track progress and identify improvement areas.
Ready to get more value from your IT investments? Connect with an expert to get a demo customized for your business needs.
What Our Customers Say
The increased scrutiny around IT spend and the need to optimize costs while maximizing value in dynamic market conditions has the ITFM tools market growing at a steady pace.
Download the 2025 Market Guide for IT Financial Management Tools by Gartner® to explore which features matter the most, recognized vendors, market recommendations, and more.
Drive ITFM insights across your organization
Get the visibility you need. CIOs and IT Finance leaders need a shared view of IT spend to cut waste, drive value, and lead with confidence.
- Executive leadership & IT Finance
- IT leadership & business relationship manager
- IT application & service owners
Cut waste, drive value, and lead with confidence
Get visibility into the total cost of IT spend and understand the key spend drivers
Align all IT investments to business objectives and priorities
Communicate the value of IT to the business
Benchmark IT spend against relevant peers
Reduce IT risk to the business
Improve cost visibility, prioritize investments, and communicate value
- Analyze, plan, and optimize all IT spend across vendors, contracts, labor, projects, and more
- Understand and communicate the business value delivered by IT investments
- Make informed staffing decisions based on workforce mix and location
- Get visibility into the business consumption of IT spend
- Manage and shift IT spend from run costs to fund change/grow investments
Drive strategic IT spend decisions
- Get visibility into the total cost of applications and services
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization and/or redirect spend
- Analyze business consumption of applications and services
- Influence business consumption and drive shared accountability with showback and/or chargeback
- Prioritize and balance business impacting investments
Unlock the full potential of your tech investments
From AI to hybrid cloud, tech spend has become increasingly complex, and organizations need a way to intelligently process this spend data at scale. That requires bringing financial and operational data together, transforming it into insights, and then actioning on it to improve efficiency, reduce waste, plan more accurately, and drive more business value from every technology investment dollar spent.
Continuous innovation and capability upgrades in the IBM Apptio product suite will ensure your technology investments continue to deliver outsized value.
ITFM for your evolving strategy
Regardless of where you are in your ITFM journey, IBM Apptio delivers a clear, easy-to-understand view of your diverse and evolving tech costs. With our industry-leading solutions, you can build a well-structured IT plan that supports continuous innovation, adapts to changing market conditions, and ensures technology resources deliver the most value – all while maintaining control over costs.
