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IBM Apptio & Cloudability

The economic governance of IT: Apptio to understand where the technology money really goes (TBM), Cloudability to keep multi-provider cloud spend under control. FinOps done seriously.

FOCUS · IT AS A BUSINESS, NOT A COSTFrom "how much do we spend on IT?" to "what does each euro return?": TBM and FinOps under one roof
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01 · What it is

IBM Apptio & Cloudability, made clear.

Today's CIO must answer the CFO with numbers, not feelings. IBM Apptio brings Technology Business Management: it takes raw costs (infrastructure, licenses, staff, cloud) and translates them into business language — by service, by application, by business unit — so budget decisions become informed. Cloudability (part of the family) does the same specifically on multi-provider cloud: allocation, optimization and forecasting of AWS, Azure and Google spend.

TBM
IT costs translated into business value, per service
Multi-cloud
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud in one spend view
Forecast
data-based forecasting and budgeting, not estimates
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

IT cost governance

Raw costsinfrastructure · licenses · staff · cloud
TBM model (Apptio)
Allocation & showback
Cloud FinOps (Cloudability)
per service · per application · per BU
Unified viewApptio + Cloudability
Informed decisionsbudget, chargeback, optimization
The IT that proves its own value

From cost to value

Apptio reclassifies technical spend into business services: the CFO sees what "the CRM" or "the ERP" costs, not "the servers".

Cloud under control

Cloudability allocates every cloud euro to teams and projects, spots waste (orphan instances, unused reservations) and forecasts spend.

Showback and chargeback

Each business unit sees (and optionally pays) what it consumes: the accountability that changes behavior.

Decisions with numbers

Renew, migrate, consolidate: strategic choices backed by real data, not quarrelsome spreadsheets.

03 · In depth

TBM and FinOps: two lenses on the same problem

Apptio implements the TBM (Technology Business Management) model: it ingests costs from ERP, CMDB, contracts and cloud bills, maps them to a standard taxonomy (ATUM) and allocates them down to business services, enabling showback/chargeback, benchmarks and planning; Cloudability focuses on cloud: it normalizes multi-provider spend, allocates it via tags and rules, identifies rightsizing and commitment (Reserved/Savings Plans) opportunities and produces forecasts; together they give the CIO the end-to-end view of spend and the FinOps team the tools to act.

  • ATUM model — the standard TBM taxonomy: comparable costs and benchmarks
  • Tag allocation — every cloud euro attributed to team and project
  • Showback/chargeback — BUs see and answer for their consumption
  • Rightsizing & commitment — the cloud savings opportunities, quantified
  • Forecast — reliable spend forecasting for budgeting
  • Multi-cloud — AWS, Azure, Google in one governance
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

3
clouds governed in one view (AWS, Azure, GCP)
TBM
the standard for IT economic management
-20%
typical recovery on identified cloud waste
CFO-ready
reports in business language
You can't optimize what you don't know you're spending: Apptio and Cloudability give the CIO the numbers to talk to the CFO — and to act.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Cloud FinOps

Multi-cloud spend allocated, optimized, forecast.

Informed IT budget

The cost per business service, not per server.

Chargeback

Business units accountable for consumption.

Do you know what each IT service really costs you? If the answer is "more or less", TBM is the answer — let's talk.