IBM Apptio

“Very useful for mid / large size enterprises having considerable IT Spend and are looking to achieve significant cost savings in 12-24 months

Not useful for small enterprise / ones with very... … Helped us to significantly achieve cost savings on our infrastructure Helped us to measure the Application TCO Reduced our forecasting cycles.”

“More suited: In the Transparency of IT Cost within an organization, cost allocation, optimization of costs in organization Less suited: For enterprise wide it is still not as mature as in the IT...”

“Several use cases: Conduct Chargeback for IT Finance, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Forecasting and Budgeting, Planning, Application Rationalization, IT Cost allocations, IT Cost Optimization,... … Reduce IT spend by 16% Improve Run/Change from 88/12 to 76/24 Locate expensive infra resources and prioritize those use cases in cloud migration journey for pulling forward benefits.”

“It enables cost center owners the ability to enter and manage budget line items so there's far more accountability for the budget plan. … We use ApptioOne for reporting IT costs and cost drivers to executive stakeholders to drive accountability for decisions impacting technology cost.”

“TCO, product cost visibility, cost optimization, and cost savings. … Cost management, cost allocation, chargeback, business mapping (tags), and reporting - great tool.”

“cost optimization budget to actuals cost savings.”

“Cost visibility and a better way to showback the cost of IT spend and make smarter business decisions with our dollars.”

“Greater value added partnerships and conversations with the business Improved ability to forecast It spend and manage costs The ability to provide a unit cost per employee which enables us to budget...”

“Cost optimization Better reporting on budget and forecasting Improves transparency in technology Cost tracking.”

“Cost modeling Cost allocation Cost reduction opportunities identification. … Very useful for cost allocations across multiple entities within an organization, and ability to provide inputs to expert users in identifies room for cost optimizations.”

“Having cost transparency and budget in the same instance, it is very beneficial to compare budget and actuals and run deviation analysis at the application, product, or business unit levels. … ATUM model helps design a cost model that will show how the cost flows from financial systems to business units.”