Financial Management
Apptio’s Financial Management solution allows IT Finance leaders to drive an ongoing spend optimization and planning process that regularly returns discretionary funds to the business and reduces financial risk through increased accountability and accuracy of the IT financial plan.
Apptio IT Financial Management Foundation
Apptio IT Financial Management Foundation automates and accelerates analysis and planning of your IT spend, driving a process of continuous optimization across labor, vendor, asset, project and cloud spend.
Apptio IT Planning Foundation
For current Apptio Cost Transparency customers, Apptio IT Planning automates and accelerates the IT planning process, fostering greater accountability, increased plan accuracy and the agility to free up budget to fund other initiatives.
Apptio IT Benchmarking
Apptio IT 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.
It's difficult to be business-aligned if you're not able to show how IT spend and IT costs are aligning with business priorities. My team and I wouldn't have been able to do that without the transparency that Apptio provides.
Value for Key Stakeholders
Apptio's Financial Management solutions help multiple groups across the organization drive better decisions and collaboration around IT spend.
Value for Key Stakeholders
Apptio's Financial Management solutions help multiple groups across the organization drive better decisions and collaboration around IT spend.
IT Finance
Analyze and plan IT spend faster with insights and action plans that surface optimization opportunities and drive spend accountability.
CIO
Demonstrate IT financial stewardship to the business by driving a continuous spend optimization process.
CFO
Reduce risk to the business and ensure the highest return on investment from your technology spend.
How Does Apptio Compare to Alternatives?
| Spreadsheets | CPM Tools | Apptio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full forecasting & spend variance under ten weeks | |||
| Multi-year planning to visualize the impact of today’s decisions in the future | |||
| Self-service analytics and action plans with insights and visuals around cost-reduction opportunities | |||
| Custom dashboard with interactive, self-selected performance benchmarks | |||
| Self-service analytics and visuals to help you get tailored answers quickly | |||
| SaaS solutions hosted in the cloud and delivered on-demand |
Additional Resources
7 Best practices for ITFM
This eBook provides top 7 best practices for IT Finance teams and how ITFM can transform from cost management to maximizing the value of IT with real-life examples of our customers.
Building a strong ITFM Foundation
This guide describes how to build a strong ITFM foundation by gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and creating a roadmap for business innovation, shifting IT from cost center to strategic partner.
IT Budgeting Template
Created from IT Budgeting best practices, this IT budgeting template will help you streamline your budgeting process, gain confidence in the output, and provide better visibility into the true cost of IT.
