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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Apptio

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe 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.N/A

    IBM Targetprocess

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AIBM Targetprocess is a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) SaaS that connects strategy, funding, and execution. It helps enterprises prioritize work, dynamically allocate resources, and continuously adapt plans. With real-time visibility and financial insights, organizations can deliver faster, clearer business outcomes.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredRequired
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    Community Pulse
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Apptio
    we looked at TP, didn't buy it
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    Chose IBM Apptio
    It will be very helpful to incorporate all other products available on our platform.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Targetprocess
    I wasn't in the organization while bringing the tool. so cant answer it well
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
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    86%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of IBM Apptio and IBM Targetprocess
    Feature
    IBM Apptio
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.8
    41 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.040 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.738 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.929 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings6.532 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.141 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings5.236 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings7.329 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.430 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.122 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings6.226 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings5.137 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings6.438 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of IBM Apptio and IBM Targetprocess
    Feature
    IBM Apptio
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Targetprocess
    6.4
    42 Ratings
    19% below category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings7.634 Ratings
    Code Review00 Ratings6.824 Ratings
    Code Collaboration00 Ratings6.823 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings5.335 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings5.841 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (218 ratings)
    8.6
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (45 ratings)
    6.3
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (196 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ApptioIBM Targetprocess
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use IBM Apptio exclusively for application TCO reporting. It compiles data from different sources then export to Excel to customize report for the user. Our intention is to start a TCO dashboard within IBM Apptio, so Excel is no longer required and leadership can drill down. We are also trying to fully automate our cloud billing.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Apptio Targetprocess is well suited to track work and progress of that work. In addition it is easy to tie that work to OKRs. Cost and hours rollup across the work hierarchy works well. Our users like the flexibility of Targetprocess and the ability to develop their own views and reports Scenarios where it is less appropriate is to do executive level reporting and develop reports that can pull in all of our time data since there is a 300k record limit
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • 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.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Extremely flexible: We are able to setup work for different groups in ways that work best for them.
    • Fantastic support group: They are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. I enjoy working with them.
    • Automation: Their automation capabilities have saved us a lot of time.
    • Customizing screens: We can go into code for the different entities, move fields around or hide them, add tabs or additional sections as needed to make for a streamlined user experience.
    • Reporting: Their reporting is flexible and phenomenal. There are so many different ways to pull data and the interface is easy to use.
    • Their user guide is well built and extremely helpful.
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • For Validation purpose, if possible, enable the JavaScript code so we can the hide the Tab based on current period and more validation we can perform on client side.
    • Sometimes we are faced the data load issue
    • Improvement the performance tunning
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • The UI is bit complex for new users who never used it. i think this can be sorted out by providing the steps to access?
    • dashboards with large datasets can cause performance lags or timeouts
    • Introduce more flexible, template-based RBAC configurations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We absolutely love it at the State of Kansas. It is very user-friendly, which helps us explain the information to those who are not as into the budgets. We consult out with Marysville, and they are super helpful in helping us with the behind the scenes stuff, like creating new tabs and uploading the reports for us to filter through. It is very simple to use and that helps us be able to teach others in our department how to use it properly.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Targetprocess is the most flexible application for tracking work among teams that we have found. This power comes from near limitless ability to customize your views on the work tracked in the system, and from the myriad reporting options to draw metrics and stats out of the data there. Custom fields, processes, and mashups all add to this flexibility and appeal.
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use this currently where I work and we have the consultant Maryville helping us with our Apptio reports and data. I originally used Apptio a few years back and since then I have switched employment, and I was able to talk to the leadership team about what we did at my previous job, and now we are building the reports here at my new place of employment
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Overall Targetprocess's usability is good. the tool is easy to use and has features which most BUs and organizations can use. Additional features like AI integration would help the tool and its overall usability. providing additional dashboards for specific roles and executives within the tool would benefit Targetprocess with its scale
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Excellent, so far. SaaS-based...assuming effective data links and connectivity
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Some minor outages are experienced, though these tend to pass within an hour usually and work can continue
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No issues that i know of
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Reports are fast loading, considering they can refresh in a second or less and we have 7 years of work tracked in over 40k entities. Pages can load slowly when the views are very busy, but not frustratingly. I am a console user most of my career and generally prefer it over webUI interfaces, but Targetprocess won me over from the beginning and I spend half my day using it now.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I have not been directly involved with the post sales support team. However, that team has provided training materials and recommended practices that have been very helpful in coming up to speed on how to more fully use the product. My understanding from both vendor management and our upline stakeholders is that our relationship with Apptio is strong.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    TargetProcess' support is one of its strengths. The support team is very responsive and helpful when there is a problem but they're also proactive in providing good release notes and engaging with the community through a voting scheme to influence the priority of new features.
    The team also releases new versions frequently with new features but with no knock-ons to currently working features.
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    In-Person Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Was awesome to have been taught by legendary Debbie Hagan for Cost Transparency in person. Her knowledge is extensive and she is an excellent trainer. Her years of experience really shined.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Online Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    The all talented training organization crosses all the T's and dots all the I's. I am constantly learning and often refer to training documentation for post training real life issues.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Well, so far. Apptio Consulting covered specific model architecting areas particularly. Most of the heavy lifting is being done in-house with support from Apptio as it relates to tool impacts and needs. Some administrative tasks were redundant
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    You should take some time to get everyone to agree how the system should be setup before work starts being tracked in Targetprocess, this avoids difficult and disruptive changes to processes or plugins later when everyone relies on it daily.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    So we've used Proven Optics, which is an add-on to ServiceNow. Well at least use it with certain customers and Nicus. Nicus is probably the biggest competitor of Apptio. The trouble with Nicus is their SQL-based ingestion process. It's a little bit more difficult. So the reason why you'd go with Apptio is that it's very easy and very intuitive to bring in new data sources and being able to model a lot of the data once it's already in the system doesn't require a lot of coding experience.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I would say TargetProcess is an incredibly wonderful tool. As compare to JIRA Software, it is a fully featured product. It fulfills all my business needs. Tracking efficiency of this application is quite favorable
    in order to track all the details from a certain project in just a few minutes.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I was not part of this process
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I would say it has the capabilities to span across multiple departments, though i am not as familiar with all the capabilities.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    We use the hosted version of Targetprocess and have never run into limitations or degraded performance due to scalability. Excellent performance over 7 years!
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • It's delivered on a lot of those, especially the relationship between IT and financing that relationship's been a bit of a rollercoaster on that journey. We've come out the other end of it, and we're all friends now, which is a good thing. So they've accepted the Apptio output and are much more involved in providing the data and helping to use the tool, which is excellent. I think one of the downsides that are probably not talked about enough is the fact that, um, once you have trained and delivered a TMB skillset within your organization, they become very good at that. So if you've got any high-performing members in that team, they become extremely valuable elsewhere. And we've unfortunately suffered the case whereby one of our highest performers was immediately then poached and went off elsewhere for a much better opportunity. So we applaud that for them, but it's really hard to train other people. It's really hard to take them up to speed, and you have to sort of go through those picks and troughs every time. So that's just life, you know.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • No direct positive business ROI has caused executive leadership to play down use of the tool
    • We are hoping to use this to track progress of OKRs and business strategy, but don't have but in from executives on the value of this yet.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Apptio Screenshots

    Screenshot of Industry BenchmarksScreenshot of Planning OverviewScreenshot of Billing - Main ViewScreenshot of Costing - Control OpEx and Cut CostsScreenshot of Spend Analytics

    IBM Targetprocess Screenshots

    Screenshot of Resource Management: Reduces risk by dynamically managing resources, capacity, and demandScreenshot of Program Management: To deliver value throughout a strategic portfolioScreenshot of Portfolio Budgeting: Shifting from project to product fundingScreenshot of Strategic Planning: Continuously links work, labor, and investments to business strategyScreenshot of Workforce ManagementScreenshot of Work