Solutions

Apptio helps organizations make smart decisions as they analyze, plan, optimize, control, and collaborate on technology investments. Discover how our software can facilitate common initiatives, roles, and industry-specific objectives.

Initiatives

Agile Portfolio Management

Visual portfolio and work management tools help agile organizations align strategy, product management and team execution.

Application Rationalization

Application rationalization is the process of cataloging and eliminating duplicate software applications used across an organization. This allows IT departments to improve efficiency, simplify portfolio complexity, and lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their application portfolio.

Cloud Cost Management

Do more than just reduce costs — optimize your cloud spend to bring teams together, fuel innovation and gain more visibility of your cloud costs no matter how complex your infrastructure is.

Cloud Migration

Achieve a successful cloud migration by aligning business and technical goals to a cloud strategy, mapping workloads to the right cloud infrastructure, forecasting spend and setting budgets.

Idea Management

Idea Management gives you the tools you need to manage the constant stream of ideas that emerge from inside and outside your business. From in-house design and development teams to customer suggestions, there is a goldmine of creativity just waiting to be tapped.

IT Benchmarking

IT Benchmarking provides comparisons of your IT spend over time, enabling an ongoing process for tracking performance, validating decisions, and identifying areas for improvement.

IT Cost Optimization

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IT Cost Recovery

IT organizations have a responsibility to Business Unit consumers and stakeholders to provide transparency into total costs of shared services, to set predictable rates to recover costs, and to provide fair and transparent billing.

IT Cost Reduction

IT cost reduction is the process of identifying and eliminating sources of waste within the IT budget. Also known as IT cost optimization, this practice yields savings that can reduce the size of the IT budget or be reinvested to drive growth.

IT Metrics & KPIs

IT metrics are quantifiable measurements that help IT leaders efficiently manage the business of IT. Traditionally operational, today’s IT metrics also help align IT investment to business strategy, customer experience, and cloud optimization.

IT Planning

Proper planning automates and accelerates the IT strategic planning process, fostering greater accountability, increased plan accuracy, and the agility to free up budget to fund other initiatives.

IT Vendor Management

Proper Vendor Insights provide a centralized, integrated view of spend across the technology vendor portfolio to ensure optimal alignment of external spend to the IT strategy.

Lean Portfolio Management

Lean Portfolio Management is one of Lean Enterprise’s core competencies aimed at helping organizations realize business agility. The goal is to line up its strategy, investment funding, governance, and agile portfolio operators.

Remote PI Planning

Remote PI Planning allows remote teams a simple and seamless way to conduct Program Increment Planning, allowing teams to align no matter where they are located.

Remote Retrospectives

Remote Retrospectives capture your team’s feedback and resulting action items remotely, without needing to spend money and time on learning other tools.

Requests Management

Requests Management is the process of handling team and development tasks using data, business rules, and workflow automation.

Risk Management

Risk Management identifies, quantifies, and predicts the impact of risks before they happen. Teams assess a visual overview of all risks in the system and prioritize which items receive attention based on automatic risk factor calculations.

Value Stream Management

Value streams are used to measure and evaluate the end-to-end activities involved in bringing software to market, a practice that every software team should understand.

FinOps

Discover FinOps, a set of standards and best practices developed to help cloud practitioners manage and optimize the variable economics of cloud to drive collaboration, informed decision-making, and value.

Full SAFe

Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) helps organizations address the significant challenges of developing and delivering enterprise-class technology-based solutions with high quality and fast time-to-market.

IT Financial Management

IT financial management (ITFM) is a framework of the processes and tools necessary to provide IT leaders with the key capabilities to effectively account for, manage, and analyze IT costs and communicate their value to the business.

Kanban

The Kanban Board maximizes your daily visibility by displaying the current workflow of your team’s projects.

OKRs

OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal system used to create alignment and engagement around measurable goals. The purpose is to ensure everyone is going in the same direction, with clear priorities, in a constant cadence.

Scrum

Scrum is an agile framework that allows teams to develop, deliver, and maintain products in complex environments.

Technology Business Management

TBM is a value management framework for decision making by CIOs, CTOs, CFO, and the team. Technology Business Management defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Agile PMO

Predict, plan & forecast multi-year operating costs for Agile products while driving accountability for product & project value delivery.

CCOE

Understand what is driving cloud cost & accurately forecast.

CFO

Get an unparalled level of data granularity, speed, and cross-functional collaboration.

CIO

Align with your CFO, demonstrate IT financial stewardship, & unlock funds for new initiatives.

Infrastructure & Operations

Consolidate spending of IT infrastructure into easily sharable dashboards.

IT Finance

Analyze, forecast, and report on the operational budget for the IT organization.

IT Procurement

Gain visibility into applications and services and improve alignment within your organization.

Product Management

Product management is the strategic function within a company that deals with all stages of development for the product lifecycle.

Product Owner

Product Owners care about maximizing the value their product brings to its users, aligning teams to implement in order and in unison, informing stakeholders about the progress and much more.

Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Release Train Engineers support people and teams by facilitating group or program events, helping them to better understand and apply the Agile mindset and related practices.

Banking

According to a recent Gartner survey, 34% of financial services CIOs list digital transformation as their top priority. These leaders believe that digital transformation will create new sources of revenue, support new enterprise operating models, and deliver new digital products and services.

Healthcare

Healthcare CIOs are facing significant headwinds during this unprecedented pace of change and financial uncertainty. Implement a proven framework to re-plan and re-forecast IT spend at speed.