Apptio Certified Practitioner: Planning Essentials

Planning essentials
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This comprehensive learning path equips professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize IT financial management using Apptio's Planning tool. This certification focuses on mastering key financial processes, ensuring that IT expenditures align with organizational priorities, and leveraging automation for efficiency.

  • Utilize the benefits of Apptio Planning to improve financial management.
  • Align IT spend with business priorities using Planning.
  • Automate budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Conduct detailed variance analysis.
  • Make data-driven decisions to optimize financial resources and support business objectives.

Apptio Planning: Essentials offers

  • 5 Courses
  • 33 Self-paced videos
  • 6 hours and 45 minutes of easy and consumable content
  • A professional certificate and badges that hold industry relevance

Available with the purchase of an All-Access Education Pass (AAEP). AAEP also includes access to ApptioOne, Cloudability and Tagetprocess certifications.

Learning Plan Overview

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Getting Started with Apptio Planning

This course offers a concise introduction to Apptio's Planning platform, focusing on essential financial and operational planning tools. Practical tips will enhance your efficiency, equipping you with the foundational skills to optimize financial processes using Apptio.

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Spend Management

This course provides a comprehensive overview of managing organizational expenditures using a structured platform. You will learn how to navigate key features, handle transactions, differentiate between operational (OPEX) and capital (CAPEX) expenditures, and track changes in financial data. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to efficiently manage spending, ensure accurate financial tracking, and maintain transparency through the use of event logs and change history features.

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Configuration

This course offers a comprehensive guide to customizing the Apptio system to meet organizational needs. You will learn to navigate reference data, manage standard and custom dimensions, configure line items, permissions, and labor allocation rules, and set up working calendars aligned with your organization's schedule. Additionally, the course covers managing vendors and contracts.

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Budget and Forecast Planning

This course offers a detailed guide to managing organizational budgets and financial forecasts. You will learn how to create, manage, and finalize plans and forecasts while setting financial targets and planning for multiple years. This course also covers importing actuals, comparing plan versions, reviewing and approving plans, and archiving or restoring plans.

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Labor Planning

This course provides a comprehensive overview of managing labor within your organization. You will learn how to create labor plans, set headcount targets, and allocate labor across departments while planning for compensation adjustments. The course also covers best practices for handling compensation rates, analyzing labor headcount, and ensuring data privacy by restricting access to sensitive salary information.

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Final Assessment

The final assessment for ACP Apptio Planning: Standard will evaluate your understanding and application of key concepts covered throughout the modules. It will include a combination of multiple-choice questions, practical exercises, and scenario-based tasks that reflect real-world situations related to budget and financial planning, labor management, and administrative responsibilities.