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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 Benchmarking
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
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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 ingest data from ServiceNow, manually maintained Excel files, and data files sent from technology.
November 29, 2023
Saves time and avoids complex Excel workbooks.
Being able to upload Actual expenses from the ledgers allow us to update forecast based on actuals, offering a more accurate view of financial results and reporting of the same for executives. In addition, this helps with understanding how to reallocate funding to take advantage of emerging opportunities in our environments, both one-time expenses and entirely allocating ongoing funding to a new activity.
November 28, 2023
The best review
Modeling is very important to to my business because we are able to break down costs at a level in which is beneficial for discussions to see where the most value lies. In this case we can model all of the applications we have but also dive right into specific applications to see how that individual app brings business value.
November 28, 2023
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To cut overspending in various departments
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
One of the things that we are most interested in is Turbonomic as well as Cloudability, so they are also tools that we would like to see more.
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
I would say data link, which is the Apptio ingestion is extremely important for us. I felt like the new kind of data link user interface is a lot better than the old data link classic as they termed it. So that new data link is very important to us. That would be the main thing. I would say we are kind of getting into Apptio BI, which is a kind of ApptioOne product and we haven't used it a ton, but we are thinking about possibly using it for some of our cloud reporting alongside Cloudability. But I really say datalink is our main one. Aside from the standard cost transparency TBM studio.
November 02, 2023
ApptioOne Review
So we're able to bring in financial data and operational data from various sources. So from the financials, for example, SAP, there are others like JD Edwards amongst other financial sources. For the operational data, you have everything coming in from the cloud, so AWS, Cloudability, and Azure. On the operations side, you might have application portfolio management tools. Also architecture tools such as true, on the service management you have ServiceNow. Regardless of the system, it's very easy to ingest the data on budgeting and forecasting, primarily IT planning, and it's very easy to ingest the data, do your planning, and export it into cost transparency to be able to aggregate both your actual budget and forecast. So that's primarily the use.
October 27, 2023
ApptioOne for newbies
Refreshing plans from ITP to CT and vice versa isn’t user friendly in my opinion.
October 26, 2023
Cloud Savings using Apptio CCM
Not yet using the budget and forecasting capabilities.
Using data link to streamline data ingestion, particularly helpful with large data sets. Although we have had some issues with Azure data in one isolated instance.
The sorting and filtering capabilities when viewing data are helpful, I often wish we had them in other applications.
Using data link to streamline data ingestion, particularly helpful with large data sets. Although we have had some issues with Azure data in one isolated instance.
The sorting and filtering capabilities when viewing data are helpful, I often wish we had them in other applications.
October 26, 2023
NIce Job
October 26, 2023
Feedback from a Relatively-New ApptioOne user
Forecasting is currently done in a different (homegrown) tool. Not enough experience in the other features to elaborate on them
October 26, 2023
Satisfied, but hoping to build it out further
We import data from multiple data sources that has been configured prior to entering Apptio
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne is effective and user friendly with potential
We load data using data link and API as well as manual upload. We do utilize its modeling and reporting capability, providing allocation.
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne Journey
We have not worked with modeling and are just starting to actively use ApptioOne for budgeting & forecasting.
October 26, 2023
Enhanced Financial Reporting and Analysis
Using DataLink to connection our financials systems and time tracking system to Apptio has streamlined our reporting capabilities.
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne is providing business value
Primarily used in scenario planning and different iterations of annual planning as well as quarterly forecasting.
Datalinks for automation is excellent, but need to find another way than DataDrop to pull in On Prem data as I haven't seen a client yet that will allow Datalink behind a firewall. Budgeting and Finance resources like to add notes regarding variances and see it in the expense tab summary, unable to do so now.
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne - fortune favors the bold!
We use datalink to integrate and automate data ingestion into Apptio, particularly REST api queries that pull from various sources with API capabilities. We also put a lot of value in the modelling capabilities in ApptioOne, where the visual and conceptual views of cost allocation really make a difference in end users reaction to their cost foot print.
October 26, 2023
Very positive experience
Example: We leverage it for comparing mobile device usage compared to the expenses incurred.
October 26, 2023
ApptioOne: A great tool for financial modeling.
Automated data ingestion from key data sources.
October 26, 2023
DTCC Apptio
Having ApptioOne for improved budgeting and forecasting along with reporting will be key.
October 26, 2023
Pleasant
Cost savings insights are important for my organization
October 25, 2023
untitled thoughts
we only use data igestion and modeling. it's working really well with large quantities of data the back-end tables are easy to build and maintain.
October 25, 2023
ApptioOne review
Currently we use datalink for most data feeds however we just started modeling, currently only out to towers
October 25, 2023
I am the Hodor for our Apptio product.
I've been able to use customized reporting to update the out of the box reports to provide value to IT and other departments. I've been able to ingest all sorts of data that have been useful for comparisons that fill a need for the organization. We can compare multiple forecasts and budgets and compare across years.