Solutions

Apptio helps organizations make smart decisions as they analyze, plan, optimize, control, and collaborate on technology investments. Discover how our software can facilitate common initiatives, roles, and industry-specific objectives.

Initiatives

Application Rationalization

Application rationalization is the process of cataloging and eliminating duplicate software applications used across an organization. This allows IT departments to improve efficiency, simplify portfolio complexity, and lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their application portfolio.

Cloud Cost Management

Do more than just reduce costs — optimize your cloud spend to bring teams together, fuel innovation and gain more visibility of your cloud costs no matter how complex your infrastructure is.

Cloud Migration

Achieve a successful cloud migration by aligning business and technical goals to a cloud strategy, mapping workloads to the right cloud infrastructure, forecasting spend and setting budgets.

FinOps

Discover FinOps, a set of standards and best practices developed to help cloud practitioners manage and optimize the variable economics of cloud to drive collaboration, informed decision-making, and value.

IT Benchmarking

IT Benchmarking provides comparisons of your IT spend over time, enabling an ongoing process for tracking performance, validating decisions, and identifying areas for improvement.

IT Cost Optimization

CIOs and other IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to optimize.

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IT Cost Recovery

IT organizations have a responsibility to Business Unit consumers and stakeholders to provide transparency into total costs of shared services, to set predictable rates to recover costs, and to provide fair and transparent billing.

IT Cost Reduction

IT cost reduction is the process of identifying and eliminating sources of waste within the IT budget. Also known as IT cost optimization, this practice yields savings that can reduce the size of the IT budget or be reinvested to drive growth.

IT Financial Management

IT financial management (ITFM) is a framework of the processes and tools necessary to provide IT leaders with the key capabilities to effectively account for, manage, and analyze IT costs and communicate their value to the business.

IT Metrics & KPIs

IT metrics are quantifiable measurements that help IT leaders efficiently manage the business of IT. Traditionally operational, today’s IT metrics also help align IT investment to business strategy, customer experience, and cloud optimization.

IT Planning

Proper planning automates and accelerates the IT strategic planning process, fostering greater accountability, increased plan accuracy, and the agility to free up budget to fund other initiatives.

IT Vendor Management

Proper Vendor Insights provide a centralized, integrated view of spend across the technology vendor portfolio to ensure optimal alignment of external spend to the IT strategy.

Technology Business Management

TBM is a value management framework for decision making by CIOs, CTOs, CFO, and the team. Technology Business Management defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Agile PMO

Predict, plan & forecast multi-year operating costs for Agile products while driving accountability for product & project value delivery.

CCOE

Understand what is driving cloud cost & accurately forecast.

CFO

Get an unparalled level of data granularity, speed, and cross-functional collaboration.

CIO

Align with your CFO, demonstrate IT financial stewardship, & unlock funds for new initiatives.

Infrastructure & Operations

Consolidate spending of IT infrastructure into easily sharable dashboards.

IT Finance

Analyze, forecast, and report on the operational budget for the IT organization.

IT Procurement

Gain visibility into applications and services and improve alignment within your organization.

Industry

Banking

According to a recent Gartner survey, 34% of financial services CIOs list digital transformation as their top priority. These leaders believe that digital transformation will create new sources of revenue, support new enterprise operating models, and deliver new digital products and services.

Healthcare

Healthcare CIOs are facing significant headwinds during this unprecedented pace of change and financial uncertainty. Implement a proven framework to re-plan and re-forecast IT spend at speed.

Insurance

Insurance CIOs are facing a massive upheaval that is fundamentally changing how technology investments are being made. Apptio enables IT leaders to re-plan budgets to optimize spend and make critical decisions quickly.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing CIOs use technology to improve operational excellence and improve margins. The development of physical products require large capital investments to produce and new, emerging technologies provide a means to streamline product development, manufacturing, and delivery.

Public Sector

Adopting TBM can help to increase an organization’s ability to optimize costs, align IT spend with the organization’s mission and unearth funding for modernization efforts for Federal, State, local and educational entities (both K-12 and higher ed).

Telecom

Cox Enterprises uses its standard cost model to quickly see how to best integrate technology of companies it acquires, identify opportunities for consolidation such as labor contracts and communications carriers and manage its consumption of public cloud services.

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