Is your Hybrid IT strategy optimized?
Hybrid is the IT operating model of the future. As your Hybrid IT strategy evolves and you complete migrations across applications, are you fully aware of the impact on your unit costs and total cost of ownership (TCO)—both before and after migration?
IT leaders face the challenge of understanding and balancing costs across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. As their hybrid IT strategy evolves, they need the tools to understand the impact of their application migration decisions to avoid making costly mistakes.
IBM Apptio’s Hybrid IT TCO Impact solution provides an ongoing, defensible financial view into application migrations across a Hybrid IT landscape in one purpose-built tool. It enables organizations to understand and track the impact of application migration on TCO, unit costs, and usage volumes, while also giving them insights into the underlying cost drivers behind changes.
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Capabilities
Hybrid IT TCO shows the ongoing financial impact across key dimensions of TCO, unit cost, and volumes while providing visibility into the underlying cost drivers, ultimately helping you shape the right future of your hybrid IT investments.
Capabilities
Hybrid IT TCO shows the ongoing financial impact across key dimensions of TCO, unit cost, and volumes while providing visibility into the underlying cost drivers, ultimately helping you shape the right future of your hybrid IT investments.
Compare current vs target hybrid IT footprint
Get a snapshot of your on-prem, private, and public cloud environments and how the cost and size track against your targets.
- See views into the current and past state of your TCO, number of applications, and average unit cost
- Track metrics against your targets
- Filter by app category, business criticality, or investment objective to understand the percent share of your hybrid environment
Evaluate migration financial benefit
Determine whether application migrations are delivering a financial benefit.
- Compare pre- and post-migration application TCO or unit cost to see where unit costs have gone up
- Understand the distribution of migrations by type or strategy, such as on-prem to public cloud or public to private cloud
Detailed pre- and post-migration analysis
Dive into the migration results at an individual application level to identify which specific cost pools and IT towers drive financial benefits or drawbacks.
- View a comparison of financial drivers at the root of TCO changes
- Understand how migrated application TCO, unit costs, and volumes have changed
- Determine the main drivers of change: cost pools as financial drivers and IT towers as resource drivers
Improve collaboration across the organization
Hybrid IT TCO solutions enable deeper collaboration, allowing executives, IT finance, and application and infrastructure owners to quickly get the information they need to make critical business decisions.
Executives
As business sponsors of the overall hybrid IT estate, executives need clear financial visibility and justification of their investments. They can compare the current to target IT footprint and evaluate the overall financial benefit of migrations.
Application Owners
App owners need to optimize platform decisions for the applications, services, and products. They can track metrics against targets and view TCO and unit costs.
IT Finance
Finance teams need cost visibility to negotiate vendor contracts, set budgets, and track variances. They can see which unit costs have gone up and compare financial drivers at the root of TCO changes.
Infrastructure Owners
To maintain the right Hybrid IT infrastructure investments, infrastructure owners need to be able to prioritize and maintain the right investments. They can understand percent shares of the environment by category and the distribution of migrations by type.
Get the answer key for application migration questions
Stakeholders across your organization will have many different kinds of questions about the financial impact of application migration in a hybrid IT landscape. Our Hybrid IT TCO dashboards provide the in-depth data and analysis – so you can confidently answer questions from any part of the business.
- Summary Report
- Insights Report
- Analysis Report
Answers questions like:
- Where are applications are hosted today?
- How do TCO & application count compare to targets?
Answers questions like:
- How many migrated applications have a higher unit cost than before?
- Has the overall TCO increased or decreased?
- How many applications have been migrated?
Answers questions like:
- Has the overall TCO increased or decreased?
- Which financial drivers are at the root of the new TCO?
- How many applications have been migrated?
Introducing Hybrid IT TCO Impact: IBM Apptio’s Newest Solution to Manage Your Evolving Hybrid Environment
Understanding the financial impact of application migrations across hybrid IT environments remains a challenge for many organizations. IBM Apptio’s Hybrid IT TCO Impact solution offers executives and application owners a defensible financial view that tracks ongoing cost of ownership, unit costs, and usage volumes.