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IBM ApptioApptio Benchmarking provides self-service peer comparisons of your IT spend over time, enabling an ongoing process for tracking performance, validating decisions, and identifying areas for improvement.
- Validate spending levels
Get a view of actuals vs. self-selected benchmarks to know where you stand relative to peers. - Track progress
Identify areas of risk, set targets, and monitor improvement efforts. - Identify improvement areas
Use relevant, credible benchmark data as objective reference points.
Understand how you compare to self-selected peers
- Choose and adjust the peer group that fits your organization.
- Select by industry, revenue, and geography and discover the effects of scale.
- Compare against companies of similar spend characteristics.
Justify current IT spend and defend budgets
- Access the full benchmark data set and understand how each metric is calculated.
- Know where you stand versus the best and worst in class with box plot distributions for each data point.
- Conduct alternate scenario analysis with flexibility to adjust peer benchmarks and estimate actuals.
Explore and uncover insights to inform better decisions
- Compare actual IT costs to benchmarks side-by-side on demand.
- Explore variance drivers with instant access to underlying actuals.
- Set targets and track progress with trending comparisons.
Build confidence with trusted benchmark data
- Peer costs are based on a standard taxonomy.
- Data sourced from trusted partners and the Apptio Community.
- Benchmark data is refreshed annually.
Better Together
Accelerate technology spend management and service management with Apptio & ServiceNow’s joint approach to managing the work and business of IT.Part of a Comprehensive Suite
| Use Case |
IBM Apptio Costing |
IBM Apptio Planning |
IBM Apptio Billing |
IBM Apptio Benchmarking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Establish ITFM fundamentals | ||||
| Understand & communicate technology spend | ||||
| Understand services composition | ||||
| Manage and rationalize application portfolio | ||||
| Track cloud and infrastructure spend | ||||
| Manage & optimize IT assets | ||||
| Manage end user devices spend | ||||
| Manage business consumption | ||||
| Manage & optimize vendor spend | ||||
| Make informed labor decisions | ||||
| Accelerate budgeting & forecasting cycles | ||||
| Conduct variance analysis | ||||
| Build/run cost planning | ||||
| Manage Bill of Technology | ||||
| Run scenarios to validate prices to shape demand | ||||
| Improve unit rate accuracy | ||||
| Recover costs directly from business units | ||||
| Benchmark and optimize spend | ||||
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