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 Deadly Sins of IT Budgeting & Forecasting
This eBook provides real-life examples of IT finance teams who have committed the top IT budgeting & forecasting sins and explains how to come back from the depths of IT finance hell.
Why IT Needs its Own Financial Planning & Analysis Solution
Learn best practices to free yourself of agonizing manual management of your IT finances in just six weeks and gain confidence that every IT dollar spent is providing business value.
The 5 Essential IT Benchmarks for CIOs
This eBook focuses on the top five industry benchmarks that IT leaders use to drive business alignment, decisions, and action.
