TBM: Technology Business Management

Finance and technology leaders need comprehensive visibility, planning, billing, benchmarking, and optimization of their technology investments regardless of technology stack, delivery, or development model.

What does TBM do?

TBM defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology. Based on a standard taxonomy that can be used by technology, finance and business leaders, TBM enables organizations to react quickly to changing market dynamics, make data-driven decisions, and align organizations around a common business objective.

With TBM, technology leaders deliver impactful outcomes…

Financial Management

  • 3-5% budget optimisation
  • Decisions and insights in real-time

Cloud Transformation

  • Make migration decisions 25% faster
  • Optimise multi-cloud/SaaS by 30%

Digital Innovation

  • Cut capacity planning  time by 80%
  • Continuous product delivery at scale

TBM aims to solve the four main challenges with this value proposition:

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Unclear value

Do internal customers consume IT as if it’s free? Do they see the value in IT investment? Can they connect IT’s contributions to business outcomes? Does the business think IT is too costly and slow? Can the business compare IT’s performance across the company and with industry peers?

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Uncontrolled costs

Does IT spending crowd out investments in growing and transforming the business? Is IT spending readily justifiable? Is technical debt accumulating faster than it can be paid down, limiting business agility?

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Disconnected Planning

Are IT budgets defensible? Do you have drawn-out budget and forecast cycles, which are then locked in annually? Do you lack accuracy, transparency, and accountability of IT spending?

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Lack of agility

Can you provide the business with a variety of cost and quality choices for the products and services you offer? Does the business make decisions independent of IT, or are the two real partners?

Connecting technology investments to business value

Organizations need a way to connect technology investments to business value. In other words, organizations need to consider how they can translate the things that money is spent on – cloud bills, data center investments, 3rd party software, and developers – to outcomes that the business cares about.


What value will TBM bring you company?​

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Project to Product

TBM works hand in hand with agile transformations to allow you to become an outcome focused company.

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Visibility of Spend

Struggling with making informed decisions due to a lack of transparency about what your products and solutions actually cost your business? We can help you understand what value you are getting for your budget spend.

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Accelerated Cloud Adoption

For organizations trying to accelerate their cloud journey, TBM provides a way to map a plan and measure the outcomes from cloud migration to cloud cost management to cloud optimization.

Whether you are looking to reinvent your business model, integrate cutting-edge technologies, or drive significant change across your organization, Seven Four Digital is here to guide you every step of the way. Let us help you turn your digital aspirations into realities.

Backed by a standardized taxonomy for technology costs

The complexity and variety of technology architectures mean that every business uses their own terminology or lingo to describe the elements in their purview. This makes it very difficult to adopt best practice allocation methodologies or make efficiency comparisons across industry.


That is why in 2014, the TBM Council standardized on a TBM Taxonomy to help take the guesswork out of naming and organizing cost structures. The TBM Taxonomy translates from a financial view to a technology view to a business-facing view with terminology that makes sense to each audience.

TBM Taxonomy Summary
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