Webcasts
Flat Budgets, Strategic Priorities and Cloud Computing:
How IT Financial Management Helps Optimize Infrastructure Investments
Relatively flat IT budgets, growing pressure to free up resources for strategic priorities, and cloud computing are putting pressure on today's infrastructure leaders. In this webinar, get advice on how to employ IT financial management to understand and optimize infrastructure spending.
Speakers: Eveline Oehrlich, Senior Analyst from Forrester Research
Deborah Gash, CIO, St. Luke's Health System
Preparing for the Private Cloud:
Driving Visibility, Accountability, and Chargeback in a Cloud Environment
Private Clouds offer the next big opportunity in modernizing the supply chain of IT. However, the evolution to Private Cloud introduces new challenges for IT: Managing the ongoing costing and billing of IT services in a virtualized, IT-as-a-Service environment.
Speakers: Murthy Mathiprakasam, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, VMWare
Michel Feaster, VP of Products Apptio
Fast Track to IT Service Costing
Third Sky and Apptio have partnered to provide an unparalleled offering in IT Service Costing. Many organizations are struggling to understand their TCO of IT Services and where to start. Third Sky and Apptio's "Service Costing Quick Start" package provides the training, services and IT Service Costing software solution to help you analyze your service costs and manage them over time.
Speakers: Lou Hunnebeck, VP ITSM Vision & Strategy
Jeff Day, Director of Marketing for Apptio
Leading the Way to Greater IT Efficiency through Cost Transparency
IT cost transparency has enabled Saint Luke's Health System to systematically find new opportunities to maximize IT investment, reduce cost, improve IT ROI and provide visibility into the total cost of IT.
Speaker: Deborah Gash Vice President and CIO, Saint Luke's Health System
Best Practices for Better IT Budgeting
Best practices in IT Budgeting have enabled IT Finance to track spending to IT budget in near real-time while reducing the time spent in the budgeting cycle by as much as 50%.
Speakers: Usman Ghani, Manager of IT Finance at VW Credit
John Novak, Director of Product Marketing, Apptio
Best Practices for Enabling IT Chargeback with IT Cost Transparency
Learn how you can identify major cost reduction opportunies and enable an IT chargeback process TODAY with your current data, systems and processes.
Speakers: Todd Maidson, Consultant, Strong Bridge Consulting LLC
John Novak, Director of Product Marketing, Apptio
Automating IT Cost Transparency: A Demonstration of Apptio's On-demand Technology Business Management Solution
Apptio is a comprehensive suite of Technology Business Management software solutions to enable the business to manage the cost, quality and value of IT Services. Apptio provides deep visibility into the total cost of IT services, the ability to communicate the value of IT to the business using an interactive "Bill of IT" and strategically align the planning, budgeting and forecasting process to IT services to drive cost reduction decisions, manage the utilization and performance of IT services and more effectively run the business of IT. In this webcast presentation you will see a quick overview of Apptio's functionality and an in-depth live demo.
Speaker: Michel Feaster, VP of Products, Apptio
Smart Business Decisions for IT: 17 Ways to Reduce IT Cost with Apptio
In these tough financial times it is important to evaluate all the cost cutting initiatives possible. But many CIOs won't sign off on a new project these days, unless there is clearly quantified savings and the financial impact is well understood. Lisa, a senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates covers the IT Service Management and IT Governance space, and shares what approaches successful IT organizations have been taking to reduce cost while simultaneously pursuing strategic projects and elevating the role of IT within the organization. We'll also discuss how Apptio has been helping customers identify new cost savings opportunities, precisely quantify the the project ROI and establish a process for continual Cost Optimization through 17 examples of cost saving projects.
Speakers: Lisa Erickson-Hicks, Research Director, EMA / Eric Berg, VP of Marketing, Apptio
IT Cost Transparency & Performance Management for Optimizing IT
Dr. Howard Rubin is internationally renowned for his work in recognizing and quantifying the business value of technology, performance measurement and benchmarking. Rubin explains the next evolution and revolution in IT and Business alignment. IT Cost Transparency is the key ingredient in a rapidly growing approach to maximize operational efficiency in IT, manage resources according to ROI provided to the lines of business, manage the demand of IT consumption for optimal value and reduce overall operating cost-basis. Eric discusses how Apptio automates and drives IT Cost Transparency, enabling IT executives to track the cost of IT, understand TCO, cut cost and foster a more in-depth conversation on the value of IT with business leaders.
Speaker: Dr. Howard Rubin, CEO of Rubin WorldWide, Professor Emeritus City University of NY, MIT CISR Research Associate, Gartner Senior Advisor / Eric Berg, VP of Marketing, Apptio
Don't Do IT in the Dark: Light IT Up with IT Cost Transparency
CIOs of Fortune 1000 companies are running $400 million businesses without the financial systems and information that other business functions have had for decades. They are literally in the dark when analyzing the fully-loaded cost of IT services and products, understanding their biggest cost drivers and how to make run-the-business decisions based on financial outcomes (ROI). Please join Third Sky and Apptio as we present how IT Cost Transparency can help IT managers understand their total cost of IT services, drive a more effective cost reduction process, support chargeback or allocation processes, improve forecasting, and communicate the value of IT to the business.
Speakers: Michael Robinson, Vice President of Services, Third Sky / Stan Shull, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Apptio
The Business of IT: An Introduction to IT Financial Transparency
This is the first webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting introduces the concepts behind IT Cost Transparency, key success factors, business value and enablers. Apptio also gives examples of real-world returns on IT Cost Transparency at three clients, plus an in-depth case study.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Basic Allocation of IT Costs: From a Buyer Perspective
This is the second webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting defines the three allocation strategies -- basic, basic with consumption influence and pure consumption-based allocation. Focusing on the buyer perspective, Apptio presents two case studies of actual customers using Apptio's solution to do cost allocation.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Mature Consumption-Based Model: The Steps to a Service Utility Model
This is the third webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting discusses the components of a consumption driven model, requirements, key success factors and business value. Apptio shows two case studies of clients who have successfully transitioned to a service utility model, using Apptio's Service Costing solution.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Product Cost Allocations & Modeling: From a Seller Perspective
This is the fourth webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting shows two methods of allocating costs at the product level, expense line and direct cost, and recommends the best path. Going a step further, Apptio runs through the Service Cost Model and what to include in it, then dives into a case study.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Budgeting & Forecasting: How Budgeting Relates to Your Cost Models for Better Planning and Transparency
This is the fifth webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting starts with the Budget Lifecycle, then delves into the elements of the budget process, such as line item budgeting, project budgeting and forecasting. Apptio discusses how budgeting relates to the Service Cost Model, then brings it home with a case study at one of its clients.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Reporting & Creating a Bill of IT: Communicating Cost and Consumption Both Internally to IT and Externally to Business Partners
This is the sixth webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting shows how to create effective internal IT reports, as well as dynamic external reports. Apptio extends the discussion with a fascinating case study of a Bill of IT at a large bank, as well as other examples of client internal and external reports.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Building a Mature Rates Model: Using the Budget Process to Drive Rates
This is the seventh webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting steps you through the process of creating rates by aligning services and costs, identifying billable units, calculating rates and handling under/over recovery. Apptio then shows how to use the budget process to determine rates, and gives an excellent case study of a federal government supplier who must bill everything "to the penny."
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
Data Quality Improvement and Management: Common Data Quality Issues, Causes and Solutions
This is the eighth webinar in the 2011 series, "Understanding and Leveraging IT Financial Transparency to Improve Business Alignment." SteelGlass Consulting lists data quality issues from financial, consumption and modeling/organizational sources, then shows how to solve these issues. Apptio discusses technology considerations, driven by a data quality methodology. The discussion concludes with two case studies where Apptio clients have used service costing and Bill of IT solutions to improve data quality.
Speakers: Suraj Nekram, President & CEO, SteelGlass Consulting
Todd Tucker, Director of Strategic Marketing, Apptio
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