IBM Apptio Costing & Planning

IBM Apptio Costing and Planning

Overview: IBM Apptio Costing and Planning unlocks the resources to accelerate business strategies by streamlining applications and operations and deepens business unit partnerships with a collaborative approach to IT investments

IBM Apptio Costing & Planning (FedRAMP Authorized), brings together all financial and operational data into a unified model built on the TBM taxonomy to provide a common language between finance, IT leaders and business units. Built on the foundations of IBM Apptio Costing this product unlocks the resources to accelerate business strategies by streamlining applications and operations, accelerating planning cycles, and deepening business unit partnerships with a collaborative approach to investments based on transparency of costs.

• Provide a business-centric view of technology investments 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 - Optimize Application TCO - Lower the cost of specific applications by understanding the associated fully-burdened cost structure
• Rationalize Your Entire Application and Service Portfolio
• Lower the cost of your application and service portfolio by identifying and eliminating duplications and underutilized applications
• Manage Business Unit Consumption
• Partner with the business unit leaders to achieve their business objectives with the most cost-effective IT solution