IBM Apptio

The single source of truth for your technology spend decisions

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IBM Apptio helps enterprises achieve:

  • Greater agility & responsiveness to changing conditions
  • Accelerated, continuous planning with more accurate outcomes

  • Real-time transparency and insights to make faster, data-driven decisions

  • Reduced financial & operational risks

  • Single source of truth.

Purpose-built to handle all your technology spend needs

Navigating the challenges of Technology Business Management (TBM) at scale requires a solid, integrated solution that offers clarity, control, and value. The IBM Apptio portfolio is precisely that: your single source of truth for managing your technology costing, planning, billing, and benchmarking.

 

Apptio provides a comprehensive view of technology spending, enabling organizations to make better data-driven decisions. This helps align your technology investments with your strategic business priorities, ensuring every dollar spent is a step towards achieving your goals.

 

Seven Four Digital helps organisations and government entities appraise, configure, and effectively implement Technology Business Management (TBM) using IBM Apptio – methodically, at pace and scale. 

Easily and quickly understand, review, and communicate your tech spend​ to provide visibility to business stakeholders

Continually evaluate and optimize labor mix, vendor spend, and apps and services.

Realize the true value of investments by understanding consumption and unit costs and aligning them to business priorities.

Use Cases

Uncover data-driven insights

Apptio provides a complete and connected view into your organisations technology spend, enabling your teams to understand spend drivers, and leverage a continuous agile planning process for faster, more accurate forecasts.

Optimize costs

Apptio helps government entities, banks, holding companies and organisations large and small to reduce waste and eliminate cost duplications, by shifting budgets from ‘run’ to ‘grow’ in the TBM mode. This helps align investments to strategic business priorities.

Business value and alignment

The True value of investments is realised and visualised via consumption insights and unit costs, and enabling you to align key investments with your business priorities.

How We Can Help

Seven Four Digital are IBM and Apptio Partners. Based in the UAE, we are experts in the Apptio suite of products and regional context.

 

We have experienced TBM consultants based in the GCC and globally who are ready to help make your implementation successful.

 

We take a structured approach to each implementation while taking the time to understand and adjust for your domain context.

 

We will help you get up and running fast to ensure early value realisation from your investment.

 

We will coach, train and mentor your internal team to ensure your program is a success, we can also provide ITFM-As-A-Service to go hand in hand with your IBM Apptio and TBM journey.

 

Our IBM Apptio offering includes:

  • Discovery & Elaboration Phases
  • Setup & Configuration
  • IBM Apptio training

  • Domain Benchmarking
  • ITFM training
  • TBM maturity assesment

  • TBM Office setup
  • TBM-as-a-Service
  • ITFM Governance model

Built On the IBM Apptio Platform

Adopted By

Christus Health Logo

Reduced planning cycle time by 90% and annual budget variance by 50%. Up and running in six weeks.

Micron Logo

Freed up $30M of costs and maintained 0.5% budget variance with daily updates to quarterly budgets using a single source of truth for added accountability and productivity.

Bank of Ireland Logo

Saved €2.5 million the first year with a similar amount forecast for subsequent years. Reduced application portfolio by 15% in the first year.

Liberty Mutual Logo

Achieved 100% consumption-based allocation model. Migrated workloads to the cloud and consolidated data centers, decommissioned 3,400 physical server cores, resulting in $2.4 million in savings.

National Grid Logo

Exceeded plan by capturing 95% of IT costs, saving $47M in the first year alone. Launched 130 cost optimization initiatives resulting in a $106M savings program over 3 years.

Cobank Logo

Reduced financial risk by moving to monthly forecasting & cut planning process time by 75%.