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What is Apptio Targetprocess?

Targetprocess from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios…

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9 out of 10
October 26, 2023
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  • Task Management (13)
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  • Support for Agile Methodology (13)
    8.2
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  • Search (12)
    8.0
    80%
  • Resource Management (13)
    7.8
    78%

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What is Apptio Targetprocess?

Targetprocess from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while…

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Project Management

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Product Details

What is Apptio Targetprocess?

Targetprocess from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth. The combination of flexible architecture and Solutions Library helps to ensure the fastest time to value for every solution. The Targetprocess EAP platform integrates directly with the ApptioOne financial management platform, enabling organizations to model true product TCO and more holistically manage the value of technology investments and innovation.

Solutions

Targetprocess' solutions-led strategy helps to make Enterprise Agile easier, allowing teams to take a building block style approach to their agile transformation. Strategic planning solutions allow business leaders to capture strategy and OKRs in a single source of truth, and update priorities with confidence that portfolio, product managers, and even autonomous Agile teams will see and align their work to the new priorities. Resource Management solutions allow portfolio and product teams to plan and forecast capacity and dynamically manage resources while minimizing risks and optimizing resource utilization. The Portfolio budgeting solutions enabled by Targetprocess partner financial teams with product and portfolio managers to enable a shift to continuous product funding, and Program Management solutions ensure the successful execution of Agile programs across hybrid and strategic portfolios.

Strategic Planning

Aligns work, labor, and investments to the strategic objectives of the business and maximize execution. Enables users to:
  • Capture and communicate corporate objectives in a persistent tool visible by the entire organization.
  • Link specific elements of execution to strategic objectives (i.e. initiatives, epics, features, teams, budgets, etc.).
  • View the split between Run-the-Business and Change-the-Business goals and pivot investments.
  • Track and view progress of strategic objectives.

Portfolio Budgeting


Aligns users with finance, to shift from annual funding of projects to continuous product funding. Users can:
  • View portfolio totals, actuals, OpEx, and CapEx, budgeted costs, and labor and non-labor costs in on place.
  • One source of truth to view portfolio budgets and their initiatives.
  • View the split between labor and non-labor actuals on a monthly basis.
  • Change Funded costs and labor/non-labor costs in the initiative breakdown.

Resource Management


Optimizes resources, capacity, and demand to reduce risk and maximize utilization of headcount.
  • Monitors the impact of changes in real-time, with multiple views of reports to minimize inefficiency and overutilization.
  • Dashboards allow optimization of incoming demand against capacity.
  • Connects resource bill rates, team rates, and blended rates and utilization with automatic cost forecasting.

Program Management


Digitalizes and automates quarterly business and program increment planning.
  • PI Planning with connected backlogs for Portfolio, Product, and Teams.
  • Visualizations of key metrics and flow of value with Flow metrics in a customizable dashboard.
  • Execute by tracking progress in real time, quickly identifying dependencies, and adapting to changes through the Program Board.

Market Differentiators

  • Flexible Architecture: Targetprocess flexible architecture adapts to the organizations operating models - no matter how unique.
  • Time to Value: Targetprocess Solutions Library minimizes administrative overhead to deliver rapid time to value for every solution.
  • Holistic Financials: Targetprocess and ApptioOne provide visibility to labor and non-labor costs for planning and managing investments.

Apptio Targetprocess Features

  • Supported: Scale Agile with Governance
  • Supported: Measure Value Across the Enterprise
  • Supported: Connect Strategy to Execution

Apptio 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 strategy

Apptio Targetprocess Videos

Resource Management: Optimization of resources, capacity, and demand to reduce risk and maximize utilization of headcount
Program Management: Digitizes and automates quarterly business and program increment planning
Strategic Planning: Aligns work, labor, and investments to the strategic objectives of the business and maximizes execution
Portfolio Budgeting: Aligns with finance when shifting from annual funding of projects to continuous product funding

Apptio Targetprocess Competitors

Apptio Targetprocess Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish

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Frequently Asked Questions

Targetprocess from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth.

Jira Align, Digital.ai Agility, and Planview AgilePlace are common alternatives for Apptio Targetprocess.

Reviewers rate Task Management highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Apptio Targetprocess are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Apptio Targetprocess to manage all of our internal operations and client deliverables, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. It has replaced several single-purpose applications across a range of functions in our organization. Everyone from Accounts Receivable, to Marketing, and the Executive team are onboarded and it is part of their daily workflow.
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Budgeting
  • Capacity Planning
  • Forecasting
  • Reports
  • Dashboards
  • Integrations
  • Single Sign On
  • Dashboard Layout Customization
Apptio Targetprocess excels at anything to do with Project Portfolio Management, Budgeting, Capacity and Demand management, Work Execution, and reporting on all of the above. It not only replaces most tools in the PPM space, but also integrates with ALMs like Jira. The ease of customization and administration are a huge win, as it doesn't take a dedicated team just to keep it running. The simplicity and usability of the system are unparalleled in the space.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Apptio Targetprocess to have visibility of the work going on within the organization and to tie Objectives and Key Results to the work. We have most of our software development work in Apptio Targetprocess
  • Users can be very self sufficient in creating views and reports
  • Easy to implement automation, validation rules and metrics
  • Dashboards provide a good way to show consolidated info
  • Improve the left hand side nav as the different reports and views make it hard to find things
  • A better UI so it can be used for Executive level reporting
  • Better performance when running reports
  • Extended domain objects have the same functionality as regular objects
  • In list views, have the ability to show more than 4 levels
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
October 26, 2023

Better together

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using Apptio Targetprocess for understanding resource utilization/capacity/cost; understanding cost of features deployed for a product & TCO; Managing strategic portfolio & funding intake
  • Cost transparency
  • Resource awareness
  • Product TCO
  • Integration
  • Configuration
  • License cost
October 25, 2023

Mature product

Alistair Mascarenhas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cost transparency, ability to do showback to the internal business units
  • Great inbuilt reports
  • easy to use
  • Could be less complex in my opinion.
  • The admins need a lot of handholding in my opinion. So need to make that side easier I believe.
  • Time to value seems quiet long in my opinion.
It is well suited for exec level reporting and the dashboards are good
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Apptio Targetprocess for tracking of actuals vs budgets, identifying and tracking optimization opportunities for vendor spend.
  • Actions tracking
  • Reduce admin complexity
I feel that Apptio Targetprocess is a mature product with strong functionality.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our agile lifecycle management tool. We hope to use it for all work management and portfolio management in the future.
  • It’s very flexible for our needs
  • It’s able to support agile at scale
  • It’s effective at dependency management
  • More out of the box integrations with dev/ops tools
  • Better roadmapping visualization
It’s a great ALM that can provide flexibility to manage both agile work and waterfall work if needed. With that flexibility, you’re able to effectively manage all of your portfolio work regardless of methodology. If you’re looking for a pure agile play, it may not have all the out of the box integrations you might be looking for to support your DevOps journey easily.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Apptio Targetprocessto manage IT product portfolios, Product teams, and Product labor
  • Streamlined team management and resource alignment to work tracks
  • streamlined labor management through clearly defined, simplified tasks
  • Easy reporting capability, dashboard creation, data extraction
  • Further enhance BI tools and reporting
  • More dynamic options for resource forecasting including applying seasonality
  • More robust linkage with ERP for resource detail management
Apptio Targetprocess is very well suited for organization that are looking to simplify tracks of work, Product team alignment, and resource alignment. Unlike other tools, Apptio Targetprocess enables an organization to recognize groups of resources as a single entity and align them according to business priorities in real time.
October 24, 2023

Strategic reporting

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are including it for directing indispensable uncovering - essentially around Drives, Outrageous Objectives, Key Targets, Vital Objectives and Key results, and more timesheeting until additional notification and having plans to integrate with ApptioOne. Expected to determine the issue of having the reports on different level and our work was dispersed and didn't had an instrument where all portfolios start using same stage. we can address this and amped ready for dealing with issues ahead with the instrument
  • Reports
  • Customized data model
  • Views
  • Setup for timesheet reporting
  • Filters on report
  • Filters on dashboard
Fit well in joining all portfolios on one phase. Overseeing and managing the frameworks of affiliation has become easier and we are clear of the areas we are working on adjusting data model is so extraordinary and it is one of the most exceptional thing so we can shape the gadget as per affiliation's need
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for work management and tracking teams and their work, and this data in turn feeds our cost transparency model in Apptio Targetprocess.
  • The user interface works well for our users
  • The data that it outputs is useable for our cost model
  • The integrations with other systems (Apptio, AzDO) could use some work, with cleaner API integration in tools like DataLink
We transitioned to it for our work management, and it has been consistently useful during our own team standups, PI Planning, and day to day use by having a clear interface and flexible outputs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ATP to better define and automate our OKR's, provide better visibility to work across the organization and have an automated way to produce our metrics/reporting.
  • OKR's
  • User Interface
  • Metrics
  • Can't think of much at this time
It is well suited for managing work in an agile world. It allows for easy visibility to all work and how it's progressing.
Mohammed Ahtesham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for managing strategic reporting - mainly around Initiatives, Ultimate Objectives, Strategic Objectives, Tactical Objectives and Key results , and more timesheeting for now and having plans to integrate with ApptioOne. Wanted to address the problem of having the reports on different level and our work was dispersed and didnt had a tool where all portfolios start using same platform. we are able to solve this and excited about solving problems ahead with the tool
  • customized data model
  • views
  • reports
  • filters on report
  • filters on dashboard
  • improving UX for timesheet
  • make some easy solutions or setup for timesheet reporting
Suited well in bringing all portfolios together on one platform. Dealing and working on the strategies of organization has become easier and we are transparent of the areas we are working on customizing data model is soo good and it is one of the best thing so we can mould the tool as per organization's requirement
Mohit Verma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We Use Targetprocess as our System of Record for all the work that our Product Development and Operations Teams. With integration options that Targetprocess provides in our case its with the Azure DevOps, it is very easy to interact between the two applications and keep track of all the items. The best part about Targetprocess is you do not have to navigate between two application (Jira and Jira Align) for things like Program Board.
  • Program Board Management
  • Risk/Dependency Management
  • Creating graphs and dashboards
  • Iterations Start and Stop buttons
  • Automatic Iteration report generations
Best suited when organizations operates in Scales Agile Framework. Less suited when only doing Scrum.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Central project governance, agile software development planning, roadmapping.
  • Roadmap View.
  • Project Governance Planning.
  • Prioritization of Entities (Feature/Epics etc.).
  • Ideas portal - the external view compared to Aha! is lacking, so much so we've had to keep some lite Aha! Seats as an external-facing ideas portal is critical.
Project governance - exec summary, project costs, etc. High-level tracking and comparison of many projects.
William Mannaberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Asset Management: My past companies have significant investments in equipment and infrastructure, such as drilling rigs, pipelines, and refineries. Apptio Targetprocess is used to manage and optimize these assets by providing tools for asset tracking, maintenance, and utilization. It helps the project managers to identify underutilized assets, track maintenance schedules, and optimize asset performance.
  • Cost Management.
  • Risk Management.
  • Asset Management.
  • Integration.
Apptio Targetprocess can be used to manage projects related to oil and gas exploration, drilling, production, and transportation. The platform can help project managers to plan and organize projects, allocate resources, and track progress in real-time. It also provides features for team collaboration and communication, such as team boards, task lists, and comments.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is utilized to capture work and measure output for our Agile teams across the organization. We reference the program to ensure the divisional partners are receiving what they need while balancing the delivery of their requests. It is reviewed during our daily huddle meetings, our Agile meetings and our working sessions to properly schedule and commit to work.
  • Diversity of the program to adapt as-needed.
  • Personalization
  • Ease of use
  • Accounting for PTO when looking at velocity and team availability.
  • I am still very new to the system and have many restrictions preventing me from moving freely throughout the system.
  • Personalizition capabilities at every user-level.
It is a great tool to organize and structure projects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Apptio Targetprocess for all of our agile teams as well as multiple teams who have seen the tool and have asked to track their work in it also. We use Apptio Targetprocess as our source of truth for all our IT work. All IT related initiatives or epics are kept and updated here for us to provide transparency to the IT leadership group about the current state, trials, and tribulations, etc. We have employees around the globe using the tool. Apptio Targetprocess helps provide transparency to the work around the globe and allows our global team members to work better together. Prior to implementing Apptio Targetprocess, we had worked in so many different places and applications. This tool has made a huge difference in allowing everyone to understand the work that is in progress and what still to be done; having one place to go to see everyone's work has made a big difference to our team members and stakeholders alike.
  • 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.
  • Permissions could be easier to manage. They work well but can take time to modify if you need to change someone's role across many projects.
Overall, I think the tool could be utilized for most groups wanting to track their work. It provides functionality that can be customized to meet the needs of multiple groups within the same org. You do not need to be an agile group to use the tool. The only group that I could see having struggles using the tool are those running strict waterfall processes and expect all the same functionality offered by Microsoft Project.
Jarrod Meyer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this app for all internal project management and user support. This includes product development, IT operations, request fulfillment, and incident management.
  • Project management
  • Inter-entity relations
  • Custom views and reports
  • Servicedesk
Targetprocess is well suited to project management and IT operations
January 27, 2022

Apptio Targetprocess

Judy Forrister | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Apptio Targetprocess for project management as software developers. It is a great tool for managing scrums and assigning tasks, amongst other things. We can also track budgets and time. Apptio Targetprocess enables us to create a variety of views and reports so that we can track our projects and hold all information in one place.
  • Relating tasks to projects
  • Tracking budget when configured to do so
  • Tracking time v estimated effort
  • Apptio Targetprocess lacks the ability to assign test runs to individuals
  • Some views can be difficult to configure for some users
  • Apptio Targetprocess is only as good as its users
Apptio Targetprocess is great for providing an overview of project progression. The use of Features, User Stories, and Tasks allow projects to be broken down and assigned to the correct specialists. The help desk function means that bugs and Change Requests enter the system seamlessly. I also do the configuration for Apptio Targetprocess and find most of the work I need to do fairly intuitive.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Targetprocess is used for general project management and agile task management. The software support multiple agile methodologies to great extent and is primarily targeted at companies willing to follow the standard concepts closely. We use it to manage larger projects and follow them on various aspects: user stories, tasks, time tracking, issues...
  • Lego-oriented - you build the tool the way you want it to work.
  • Support all agile frameworks (Scrum, SaFe, etc.).
  • Great customer support from the product team.
  • Definitely not user-friendly, painful onboarding.
  • Limited API capabilities with frustrating rules.
  • Weak testing features (issues, test plans, etc.).
Targetprocess is really recommended for companies that are already mature with agile and want to take it to the next step. You can truly build your workflows and automated rules the way your teams need them, there is almost no limits to what you can customize. However it also has a very frustrating user interface and some performance issues.
July 06, 2020

On Target!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TargetProcess across our entire organization. We currently use it for requirements and bug tracking but are starting to expand into marketing requirements and the help desk. We will soon be tying it into a CRM and will use it for our entire product life cycle. More than anything we were looking for a tool that does almost everything and this fits the bill.
  • Basic flexibility out of the box is a big advantage for a small company without resources to customize, as is needed for some of the larger competitors.
  • The support is second to none. They've even written custom TP queries to get me what I want.
  • They have managed to cover all the basics of product development in one product, in particular, the inclusion of customer support (although limited) is a big selling point for a small company.
  • I don't like the view concept versus just doing search queries to see what you want.
  • The basic test process stuff is there, but they are missing things like re-use of steps and iteration tracking.
  • The lack of adding and customizing entities is probably the biggest miss, but I understand this is in the works.
I've customized large ALM solutions before to get what TargetProcess offers out of the box. It is a great tool for companies that lack resources to dedicate a person to customization, or just those that don't want to. It is not appropriate for a company that has specific needs that require customization, like tracking requirements to tests in a written format as required by certain certifications, like FDA.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TargetProcess is the tool we use to organize and track our work. We work in a highly Agile environment and TargetProcess supports our workflow very well. Particular strengths of TargetProcess are:

  • that it is highly customizable so individuals can build views that give them the information that they want,
  • the rapid development of new features by the team,
  • the responsiveness of the support team.
However, the ability to customize views does come with a learning curve and it helps to have someone providing some standard views so that the team can always use these to have a shared understanding of the project's work.
  • Level of customization of views.
  • Well supported with new releases.
  • Responsive support team.
  • The customization of views can mean that different people are viewing data differently but setting up standard views helps.
TargetProcess is well suited to Agile development teams from small to large teams. It is perhaps less well suited to work that is more rigid such as art production for a video game.
Martha Batruny | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TargetProcess is a wonderful product which is frequently used by the whole organization. Powerful visualization of my workflow is no more than a blessing because it allows me to have a perfect distraction-free overview of my projects. Moreover, the ability of this software to drill down or scale-up is quite astonishing in order to get details from each and every level of the hierarchy in just a few minutes. Moreover, the timeline feature is making my activities and time tracking abilities more enhanced and effective as well.
  • It enables me to consolidate silos of data into a useful pattern without any hesitation.
  • Web-based administrators of this application allow me to do field level mapping in a significant way.
  • It lets us use graphical and custom reports to pinpoint certain trends and also am able to forecast performance.
  • Every feature in this amazing application is of unique importance and also quite friendly in nature that doesn’t consume a lot of time and energy as well.
  • For me, there is nothing to take care of in this specific application only sometimes it shows errors while updating but that’s not a big deal.
TargetProcess is absolutely a wonderful product. I would really like to suggest it to my colleagues because it is a huge helper in daily workflow and also amazing enough to carry on my projects. Moreover, the affordability of the product is the most useful feature that enables me to work on it and also helps me in order to improve the collaboration power among my teammates.
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