Spreadsheets don’t cut it
As your tech spending grows, can you deliver the data and insights your business needs?
Technology is the heartbeat of the modern business and as its role expands, managing costs and aligning them with business goals is more important than ever. Leaders need a simplified way to manage and master tech costs, so they can focus on business outcomes and maximizing the value from every dollar, not chasing data and updating spreadsheets.
of business leaders lack key information regarding their technology spend decisions
Tech leaders successfully driving change and innovation follow the principles of Technology Business Management (TBM) to maximize the business value from every IT dollar. Discover six best practices for implementing TBM in your organization.
There's a better way
Apptio Costing eliminates the error-prone and time-consuming world of spreadsheets and automates the consolidation of your tech costs based on data from systems you already own. It brings financial and operational data into a common, centralized framework based on an industry-standard taxonomy of cost categories and hierarchies. Together with Apptio’s proprietary allocation strategies, metrics, KPIs, and reporting structure, organizations can align around a single source of costing truth based on common data and shared insights.
Improve cost transparency
Easily and quickly understand, review, and communicate your tech spend to provide visibility to business stakeholders
Control OpEx and cut costs
Continually evaluate and optimize labor mix, vendor spend, and apps and services.
Increase business value and alignment
Realize the true value of investments by understanding consumption and unit costs and aligning them to business priorities.
Simplify and analyze
Automate the ingestion and structuring of financial and operational data to gain a complete and connected view into tech spend.
Optimize
Optimize overall IT spend by reducing waste, eliminating duplications, and aligning investments to strategic priorities.
Align
Align key investments with business priorities by shifting run spend to fund grow/change investments.
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Designed to meet your evolving strategy
Regardless of where you are in your TBM journey, Apptio Costing can deliver a clear, easy-to-understand view of your diverse and evolving tech costs, driving informed decisions in a rapidly changing tech landscape. With Apptio’s 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.
Costing Essentials
A simple, easy-to-use costing framework, leveraging prescriptive allocations allowing you to establish foundational cost transparency and value for organization quickly.
Costing Standard
A highly customizable platform that can ingest and structure data from virtually any source system, and deliver fully consumptive allocations – allowing your organization to understand TCO and better manage overall tech consumption.
Costing + Planning Bundle
Leverage the combined power of Costing and Planning to streamline budgeting and forecasting, enhance decision accuracy, and enable you to continually refocus and replan your portfolio to optimize tech investments and quickly react to economic changes.
Part of a Comprehensive Suite
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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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