Cloud Business Management
Realize the Benefit of Cloud Economics

Apptio helps you make data-driven decisions during each stage of your cloud adoption with powerful, SaaS-based Technology Business Management applications

Cloud computing is having a transformational impact on IT. Not only are private clouds changing how IT leaders think about their services, but public cloud options provide an open market for IT services by which your IT services can be directly compared. Because cloud computing is essentially a shared service model, managing and allocating costs back to the business becomes even more complex.

If your business is adopting cloud computing, you may need to make complicated, data-driven decisions about how to build and what to run in the cloud, whether you have a private, hosted private, public or hybrid model. You may also be under pressure to provide deeper transparency into the cost, quality and value of your services. Apptio helps you address these challenges and realize the economic benefits of cloud computing.

Apptio Helps You Realize the Benefits of Cloud Economics

Apptio delivers a complete suite of on-demand applications combined with best practice templates, and expert services to quickly achieve these benefits.

Understand, Plan and Decide How to Build and What to Run in the Cloud

Apptio’s IT Service Costing, IT Service Performance and IT Benchmarking applications help you make the right decisions based on real-time data:

• Measure and benchmark IT costs, capacity and utilization to get a complete understanding of your current situation
• Determine cost and value trade-offs of your cloud computing architectures
• Identify cost reduction opportunities related to your hardware, applications and vendor contracts
• Run "what-if" analysis to make build vs. buy cloud computing decisions (e.g., on-premise private cloud, hosted private cloud, public cloud)
• Design and manage cloud performance KPIs such as unit rate reduction goals and return on assets (ROA)

Value: Adopt cloud computing wisely, avoiding the economic pitfalls that often impact your business and tarnish the credibility of IT with your business customers.

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Meter Cloud Usage and Deliver Consumption-Based Billing

With the added agility provided by cloud computing, business users tend to use more than they need, eroding the anticipated economic benefits of the cloud. Apptio’s Bill of IT application enables you to recover the cost of your cloud investment while encouraging responsible adoption:

• Provide consumption-based billing of cloud resources
• Deliver fair, precise and defensible cost allocations based on metered use
• Convey the value of cloud services to the business in a language they understand
• Show which applications are driving demand and expose the levers for improving efficiency
• Offer tiered levels of service to provide smarter, more economically oriented options to your business customers

Value: Deliver IT financial transparency to the business to fund your cloud investments while incentivizing the right behavior.

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Match Investments in Cloud Capacity to Current and Future Business Demand

The dynamic nature of cloud computing has made it even more challenging for IT decision makers to predict future demand and determine the right level of infrastructure investment. Apptio’s IT Planning application enables you to quantify and fund these investments based on sound data:

• Accurately forecast resource demand based on business drivers and utilization patterns
• Manage your asset inventory with confidence and rationalize when it makes economic sense to leverage a hybrid cloud model
• Benchmark the cost and quality of your cloud services against industry peers and third-party providers

Value: Optimize your investments in cloud computing resources by avoiding unnecessary spending while being prepared for business growth.

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Easy to Get Started. Quick Time to Value.

Just a few days with your data, your people, and our technology can help you understand your cloud-related costs to make more informed decisions. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to Technology Business Management, Apptio dramatically accelerates your decision-making capabilities with packaged application accelerators, a proven methodology, and best practices. Furthermore, our Technology Business Management CIO Council and end-user community serve as peer reference resources that will transform the way you manage the cost, quality and value of IT.

Need proof? Let us demonstrate our capabilities online. We’re so confident that once you see the power of Apptio’s applications, you’ll be ready for the next step: an onsite proof of value project that will demonstrate profound new insights in just a few days.