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IBM ApptioThe market changes fast. Can your tech planning?
Budgeting and forecasting in changing markets is an on-going challenge. In order to justify the value of your tech investments, you need a consistent, repeatable planning and reporting strategy that creates transparency for the business and encourages collaboration. When you lack of consolidated data sources, you have limited lines of sight into your tech spend, plus time-consuming and resource-intensive processes.
CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting tech budgets to at least every month.
Align tech investments with business value
Unlike cumbersome spreadsheets from multiple systems of record, Apptio Planning provides a collaborative workspace for planning that unifies technology financial data. It creates a repeatable, accurate, and collaborative planning process with automated data ingestion, streamlined variance analysis, and cost categorization – enabling organizations to continually refocus, replan, and react quickly to changing market conditions.
Accelerate budgeting and forecasting cycles
Create a repeatable, accurate, and collaborative planning process. Spend less time aggregating and rationalizing data, and more time analyzing and optimizing spend.
Automate continuous planning cycles
Shift from annual or quarterly planning to continuous monthly forecasting.
Conduct variance analysis
Track and manage budget variance against plan. Adjust investment strategies promptly, ensuring alignment with technology financial and operational goals.
Optimize
Automate & accelerate manual and error-prone budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes
Analyze
Understand budget variance and enhance decision-making.
Align
Reduce waste, eliminate duplications, and strategically align investments with organizational priorities.
10 Essential KPIs for the IT Strategic Planning Process
When IT budgeting is viewed as a process to enable the strategic plan— and not an annual goal—it delivers a competitive advantage. Essential KPIs in IT strategic planning help companies make informed budgeting decisions based on shared context and a system that empowers technology experts to set their own spending plans, but these plans need KPIs that show financial fundamentals, delivery, innovation, and agility to support the business strategy as proof points that IT is delivering business value.
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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IBM Apptio Costing + Planning Bundle
Leverage the combined power of Costing and Planning! Together, they streamline the technology budgeting and forecasting process, which improves accuracy and confidence in decision-making and enables you to shift spend towards high-priority investments.
