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What is IBM Apptio?
The IBM Apptio platform is a technology business management solution that enables organizations to make better decisions about technology investments. It connects technology spend to business value so organizations can adapt to changing market conditions.
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What is IBM Apptio?
The IBM Apptio platform is a technology business management solution that enables organizations to make data-driven decisions about their technology investments by driving clarity on technology spend, connecting that spend to business value, and enabling organizations to quickly take action against rapidly changing market conditions.
IBM Apptio Costing
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IBM Apptio Costing
IBM Apptio Costing Essentials delivers a clear view of an organization's diverse and evolving tech costs, driving informed decisions in a rapidly changing tech landscape. Apptio’s allocation strategies tackle the difficult task of bringing together financial and operational data into a common, centralized framework, providing transparency on key spend drivers tied to business priorities, enabling leaders to focus on business outcomes and the value of each dollar spent, rather than chasing down data or constantly updating spreadsheets.
IBM Apptio Costing Standard builds on the foundation (of Apptio Costing Essentials) and provides a customizable platform that can ingest and structure data from almost any source system and deliver fully consumptive allocations – allowing organizations to understand Total Cost of Ownership and better manage overall tech consumption.
For CIOs, Tech leaders, and IT Finance leaders who need to make quick decisions to capitalize on market trends and drive business innovation. These decisions need to be based on a complete view of their IT and technology cost structure and its value to the business. Apptio Costing is financial management software that creates a shared understanding between technology leaders, finance, and the business of the fully burdened cost of technology and accelerates analysis, optimization, and investment in growth-based initiatives.
Unlike time-consuming and error-prone spreadsheets coming from multiple systems of record, Apptio Costing unites financial and operational data into an industry-standard taxonomy of cost categories and hierarchies. Coupled with Apptio’s proprietary allocation strategies, metrics, KPIs, and reporting structure, organizations can come together to optimize and align their current approach to technology and invest more deeply in growth initiatives.
Reduce the total cost of ownership associated with the largest applications in
an organizationProvide a business-centric view of technology with insights that helps IT organizations unlock and shift resources
Understand the ‘root cause’ for any business unit expense from the app/product/service down to the general ledger
Allocate costs based on consumption metrics, enabling precise resource allocation and budget optimization
As a whole, Apptio Costing helps organizations classify, categorize, and consolidate technology spend ensuring investments are directed to the highest value-add opportunities.
Additional products in the IBM Apptio product family include:
IBM Apptio Billing
IBM Apptio Billing is for IT Finance professionals who want to explain the consumption of IT services by business unit, shape demand of services through strategic pricing, recover costs, and defensibly communicate the value of IT. Simply put, accurate and defensible IT costs are communicated in the language of business services and products. By facilitating showback and chargeback, Apptio creates accountability of IT consumption by extending cost transparency to business units, departments, and users. Unlike spreadsheets and manual processes, Apptio delivers a user-friendly bill via email with IT costs, allocations to business units, and easy ways to set rates to shape service demand, drive behavior change, and inform decision-making. Apptio Billing empowers consumers to dictate their IT consumption, reallocate time spent supporting manual consumption models, and ultimately helps build credibility by demonstrating IT’s value in the language the business understands.
For CIOs and IT Finance, a critical component of driving engagement and alignment with the business is by showing the value of IT, but many organizations are failing to consistently and successfully demonstrate this. Homegrown billing and recovery processes are often error-prone and difficult for the business to decipher, delaying decision-making and preventing frequent and defensible communication. They can also be time-consuming requiring the upkeep of multiple consumption models. In addition, there is no way to hold business units accountable for the IT services they are consuming.
Cost Recovery: Determines the proper billing amount from each business unit using business rules.
Consumptive Billing: Ensures the amount being billed is not only accurate but also explainable and defensible to business units.
Unit Rate Billing: Exposes the levers business units can use to mitigate costs and reinvest in higher-value IT activities.
IBM Apptio Planning
IBM Apptio Planning streamlines technology budgeting processes, enhancing accuracy and decision-making confidence through its collaborative workspace for cost budgeting, forecasting, and KPIs. Apptio Planning reduces the time spent on data aggregation and rationalization, allowing for more time on technology spend analysis and optimization. It bridges the gap between technology finance strategies and broader business objectives, allowing business leaders to tie their technology investments directly to business value ensuring you can cut costs in the right places while still preserving innovation. Apptio Planning creates a repeatable, accurate, and collaborative planning process with data ingestion automation, streamlined variance analysis, and cost categorization – enabling organizations to continually refocus, replan, and react quickly to changing market conditions.
As tech leaders across the globe are working to understand and justify technology investments and communicate value to the business, Apptio Planning becomes increasingly essential. This need is especially difficult in changing markets where budgeting and forecasting become more complex. Many CIOs remain under pressure to stabilize or even reduce IT costs, even as enterprise-wide technology investments increase and require additional funding for foundational and new IT capabilities. Organizations are also now changing their budgeting cycles from an annual basis to a more continuous basis. This makes it even more important to find a consistent, repeatable planning and reporting strategy that creates transparency for the business and encourages collaboration is crucial. Apptio Planning addresses these challenges by providing a unified source of data that enhances accountability and granularity, eliminating manual, time-consuming, and resource-intensive processes to enable more effective and efficient planning.
Reduces the time spent forecasting, accelerate frequency, and offers variance analysis to redirect resources to higher-value activities.
Enables continuous planning/forecasting cycles, reduces manual workload, and expedites decision-making with real-time data insights.
IBM Apptio Benchmarking
IBM Apptio Benchmarking provides self-service peer comparisons of an organization's technology spend over time, enabling an ongoing process to track performance, validate decisions, and identify areas for improvement – ensuring the organization stays agile. Apptio Benchmarking offers automated and ongoing monthly comparisons against a set of user-defined peers, to compare technology costs side-by-side with regularly refreshed industry benchmarks for up-to-date comparisons to technology spend actuals. This interactive benchmark data set generates insights into how the technology spend stands.
Tech leaders across the globe are working to understand and justify technology investments and communicate value to the business, which can be a challenge for many organizations. With this, benchmarking is necessary as it builds the discipline of cost transparency and has the ability to segment tech budgets into multiple views for different audiences and ultimately better communicate the value of IT’s spend. Furthermore, Apptio Benchmarking allows organizations to assess their performance against industry standards, identifying areas of underperformance. This insight empowers companies to make strategic improvements.
Users can:
Validate spending levels with a view of actuals vs. self-selected benchmarks to know where the business stands relative to peers using trending comparisons.
Monitor progress by identifying areas of risk, setting targets, and evaluating improvement efforts.
Identify improvement areas and use relevant, credible peer benchmark data as objective reference points.
Set targets and track progress with trending comparisons.
Know where a business stands versus the best and worst in its class with box plot distributions for each data point
IBM Apptio Features
- Supported: Automated data ingestion and modeling
- Supported: Analytics and reporting
- Supported: Budgeting and forecasting
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IBM Apptio Integrations
- Amazon Web Services
- SAP Business One
- Oracle PeopleSoft ERP
- VMware vCenter
- ServiceNow IT Service Management
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle Database (legacy)
- BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Oracle Hyperion
- Microsoft Excel
- Coupa
- Google Cloud Platform
- Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
- Jira Software
- BMC Helix Discovery
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Microsoft 365
- Digital.ai TeamForge
- Broadcom Clarity
- Windows File Share
- IBM Softlayer
- CGI Momentum Data
- FTP Server Connector
- SOAP Server Connector
- REST Server Connector
- SFTP Server Connector
IBM Apptio Competitors
IBM Apptio Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Can be used by customers in any country |
| Supported Languages | English, Japanese |
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The IBM Apptio platform is a technology business management solution that enables organizations to make better decisions about technology investments. It connects technology spend to business value so organizations can adapt to changing market conditions.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.1.
The most common users of IBM Apptio are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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November 30, 2023
Absolutely recommend using ApptioOne
We use ApptioOne as our primary source for costing out applications, projects, and services. It allows us to much more accurately determine the services driving our costs, using the ATUM model. It also provides us with the unit costing ability that supports business cases and strategic decision making. ApptioOne is what we use to charge costs back to the consuming businesses, providing transparency into the value or profitability of different business lines.
- Dashboard/data visualization
- Allows for complex modeling to fit your business
- Easy to navigate for the end users
- Additional flexibility around report layouts
- Quicker navigation in ITP
- Increased functionality around building dashboards in Apptio BI
November 29, 2023
Saves time and avoids complex Excel workbooks.
We implemented Apptio One, an IT Planning module, to address the challenges of using Excel to maintain a Budget, Forecast, and Actuals to help in planning and variance analysis.
- Replace complex, linked Excel worksheets and workbooks.
- Help with forecasting and changing expenses on a month-by-month basis.
- Provides total net expenses for the month, and for the 12 month period.
- We don't begin from "zero" in our fiscal year, and it's challenging to consider a beginning balance in calculations.
- Out of the box reporting reflects configuration to the ATUM data model, not changes to it.
November 28, 2023
The best review
ApptioOne is used in a couple of different ways within my company. We look at cost of IT and the value it gives back to the business. UPMC is a healthcare company that I work for and we used ApptioOne to levergae the decision to go to a single EMR. Through this inititive we look to make more decisons this way. By looking closly at IT cost and value we save money to give the best patient care possible
- User Friendly
- Leverage Business value
- Create better discussions with C-Suite to make informed decisions
- Apptio BI
- Use of AI
- Clearly models
November 28, 2023
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To maintain the budget and forecasting for IT.
- Integration
- Communicating
- Collaboration
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
At the moment we are using it to create mostly reports for finance and technology, showing the CIOs and as well the CTOs, different ways in which they could save their cost within their technology. So we are basically in the process of implementing reports for the different managers' areas.
- Integrates a lot of data sources in which we could gather data and we can show that to our stakeholders.
- Basically it's the interface of the product. It's not very user-friendly for the stakeholders. So they have a hard time trying to see the data because of the interface that the tool has.
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
We use the tool for a variety of different purposes, primarily for technology, showback, and chargeback. We use it to calculate costs for our applications, teams, and services, which we then use to help facilitate our chargeback model, which goes back directly to the business lines, and impacts their profitability. So it's very important that the Apptio model that we use and have built is accurate and maintainable and up to date with everything that changes in the business. We also use it for technology reporting, so not businesses, but straight directly in technology for application rationalization, a kind of team labor management between innovation-related work and app BAU work. We are also using it more now than ever for understanding our hybrid infrastructure world of cloud versus on-prem, what the cloud costs in terms of consumption versus shared services of cloud, the labor to support the cloud, and things like that. We have to report on that and have our tech understand it, look for areas of opportunity to decrease spending while maintaining the quality of the outputs is very important.
- Does very well at handling complex allocations and automation. Also great at bringing in data automatically, manipulating that data, and allowing you to feed that data into a complex model. So all the behind-the-scenes stuff works really well. It's also pretty good at visualization. It has some similar capabilities like a Power BI and Tableau, but generally provides most of the visualization technology that somebody would need with the tool.
- I would say the big thing is just the complexity sometimes on the reporting surface. It can be a lot of different buttons, and a lot of different tools, and it can be occasionally overwhelming for somebody to come in and see a report built one way and then look different in another place. So really maintaining consistency and how the reports look, how they function, is very important. So I would say just simplicity on the front end has been a little bit of a challenge for us. We've gotten better, but with training obviously things like that, but that's been the main challenge.
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
We are consulting with various companies. One specific is we're working on value realization of applications and services.
- It's able to aggregate various data sources, specifically financial and operational data across multiple systems. So even if the company has various systems internally, it's able to aggregate them to be able to paint one picture.
- I think depending on the organization's use cases, some of the configuration could be very complicated and hard to manage over time.
October 27, 2023
ApptioOne for newbies
Budgeting and Forecasting
- Versioning
- Approval workflows
- Comparison of plans and forecasts
- Cost reporting
- Limited reporting views in ITP in my experience
- Layouts and bookmarks are hard to utilize in my opinion
- Waterfalls are good but when comparing versions then details only shows up on the existing plan version in my experience
- Actuals vs budget and forecast for contracts is not consumable in my opinion
October 26, 2023
Cloud Savings using Apptio CCM
Primarily using CCM module to manage and optimize cloud costs. Reporting App TCO and details behind app cost. Beginning to support App Rationalization efforts.
- Detailed cloud cost info with easy drill down capability
- Cost trending information to understand monthly and daily trending
- The CCM module does not always calculate cloud RI usage correctly.
- Would like better functionality to switch between cloud usage metrics and cost data. Discount rate on cloud recently increased, resulting in lower cost, but with higher utilization.
- Continue investing in the CCM product, we like it, feels like we are being pushed to cloudability.
October 26, 2023
NIce Job
I use ApptioOne for the Appliction TCO for entire organization
- OPEX Budgeting
- OPEX Actuals
- Show costs for IT
- Good dashboard for CIOs
- Ease of Use
- Easier out of the box BI Reporting
October 26, 2023
Feedback from a Relatively-New ApptioOne user
ApptioOne is currently used as the IT Financial Data single source of truth, as a first step it is helping us provide clear allocation of data by project, product, and business unit replacing a number of disconnected PowerBi dashboards. Apptio brings the ability to report on project TCO which is allowing us to simplify the way we manage our financials.
- Structures the data
- Allows for quick design/build/deployment of new dashboards/views
- Allows for collaboration on the same platform
- User interface (mostly look and feel)
- Editable tables
- Easier user customization of existing reports (like what PowerBi does)
October 26, 2023
Satisfied, but hoping to build it out further
We use ApptioOne for Technology chargeback to our business clients and cost transparency using the business taxonomy framework
- Cost allocations
- Transparency of costs
- Holding large volumes of data
- Lack of financial locks from prior periods
- Reporting
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne is effective and user friendly with potential
We use ApptioOne to do technology allocation to our lines of business. It creates transparency and helps business understand cost and services they received.
- Allocation model
- Reporting
- Integration with other Apptio products
- Better dashboards and BI
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne Journey
As the Financial Manager for IT, we use ApptioOne to plan & manage our IT spend. Vendor contracts comprise a significant portion of our spend. IT Planning allows us to amortize current contracts, project increases and manage expirations. ApptioOne helps our team translate our SAP financials into IT financials. We are currently working on building out our Capex project reporting and developing a metric dashboard for our IT Leadership Team.
- Vendor Contract Tracking
- Reporting
- Support
- IT Planning - lining up the contract tab to the summary tab when you are doing a forecast & actuals are involved
- New Customer Support - today we are working with a Premier Resource who is fabulous! We had worked with TAS, and I do not feel that it was nearly as beneficial.
October 26, 2023
Enhanced Financial Reporting and Analysis
We use ApptioOne as a data consolidation and reporting tool. We are composed of several small corps and having the ability to see financial information in one consolidated view is tremendously beneficial for us. We primarily use ApptioOne to track/ report financial variance reporting.
- Consolidation of financial information across multiple entities
- Provides end users with easy access to meaningful financial information
- Shows trends in data over time
- Apptio has great OOTB reporting tools but there is opportunity for improvement in OOTB analytics solutions
- Models can be prohibitively complex
- End-user interaction with reports is desired. ApptioBI still seems early-stage
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne is providing business value
Several use cases: Conduct Chargeback for IT Finance, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Forecasting and Budgeting, Planning, Application Rationalization, IT Cost allocations, IT Cost Optimization, Technology Transformation, IT CapEx forecasting and planning, Validating Project and Portfolio planning, IT Infrastructure Optimization, IT Architecture decisions, Business Architecture decisions, Software Cost management, Software Asset optimization
- Iterative development of IT Cost Model
- Quick calculations for scenario planning
- Versioning
- Time taken for recalculation
- Templates and knowledge assets for container cost allocations
I use ApptioOne for App TCO, Showback, Chargeback, Budget & Forecasting
- Application TCO
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- On Prem Infra Costs - relationships to Applications
- Custom reporting
- More than 2 object reporting
- Column ordering in custom tables
- More dashboards, less click thru reports for end user adoption
October 26, 2023
Cost Transparency with ApptioOne
I use ApptioOne for monitoring IT spend and capitalization.
- cost transparency
- identifying data issues
- calculating capitalization
- integrations with other data sources
- drills
- TBM Studiio, should be able to lock columns from session to session
- reduce compile time
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne - fortune favors the bold!
I help implement ApptioOne for clients, as well as providing support services, new product demonstrations and administrative consultations. Typically, the primary use case is enhancing and delivering additional functionality to existing ApptioOne configurations. Customers routinely require professional services to address either labor resource gaps or simply more experienced input relative to their solution.
- Data handling
- Customization Capability
- Reporting and Visualization
- Modernization
- Simplified Integration
October 26, 2023
Very positive experience
we leverage Apptio for Budgeting and cost transparency purposes.
- Budgeting
- Transparency
- Data ingestion
- Data reporting
- Integrations with servicenow
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne: A great tool for financial modeling.
ApptioOne is used to to translate the value of IT services to company leaders, analyze IT Vendor spending, and help drive optimal consumption of technology services.
- Cost Modeling
- Data Automation
- IT Spend Analytics
- Ease of use
- User Interface
October 26, 2023
DTCC Apptio
We are currently migrating from Digital Fuel to ApptioOne and working through the transition.
- Team has been excellent supporting the transition
October 26, 2023
Fun Learning Experience!
I use ApptioOne for Vendor Insights, Contracts, POs, IT Planning. It Addresses Showback and spending transparency and used by the entire IT Division.
- Cost Transparency
- Reporting
- Flexibility
- Calculation Times
- Apptio University
October 26, 2023
Pleasant
I use ApptioOne for Vendor insights, Contracts, IT planning and to ensure Data quality.
- cost transparency
- IT Towers dashboards
- Vendor spend
- IT planning functionality
- calculation time
- Apptio university
October 25, 2023
untitled thoughts
Use ApptioOne to showback IT cost spend, product TCO, and P&L financials.
- it's mostly stable with the volume of data we have
- great support team
- willingness to update the product based on our demand
- very rigid in my opinion.
- not always intuitive with out of box options in my experience.