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Effective Project Planning for Instructional Designers: Delivering High-Quality eLearning

By Shalu Jha posted 13 days ago
Effective project planning is the backbone of successful instructional design. As instructional designers the responsibility lies in creating engaging, effective, and educational content that meets the needs of learners, stakeholders, and organizational goals. However, balancing the scope, timelines, and quality of deliverables can be a delicate task, ...
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Bill and Editable Tables

By Guillermo Cuadrado posted 19 days ago
Sometimes, we can improve usability by removing unnecessary items in a form, especially for data entry forms. In this episode, Bill addresses this case. *** “Hey, Bill. I would like to simplify this data entry report.” Ellie Nakamura, Bill's counterpart in Finance, showed him her tablet. “What seems to be the problem?” “I need the ...
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Customizing Values for Fibonacci Sequence and Planning Poker in WSJF

By Jyoti Rawat posted 30 days ago
If we follow the Fibonacci sequence for some projects and Planning Poker for others, can we customize the values, or not? Can we edit the Job Size, Business Value, Time Criticality, and RR values in the Feature WSJF? Yes! You can customize different sequences for different projects. After creating a new board, follow these steps: Set vertical ...
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IBM/Apptio: Tech Spend Visibility in the AI Era

By Janie Carothers posted Wed March 12, 2025
Excited to share Ajay Patel's exclusive interview with FinTech Magazine. Ajay shares his thoughts on tech/cloud spend, sustainability, and the value proposition of AI for tech leaders. “By adopting a cloud financial management platform and embedding technology business management principles, teams can track costs in real-time, optimise spend, ...
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Animals of Apptio

By Lauren Pagan posted Wed March 05, 2025
If you've been a member of the Apptio Community for a while, you may remember @Jenny Goodwin 's Animals of Apptio blog. I am thrilled to bring it back! Whenever I needed a midday break, I would check to see if there were any new comments on the blog. I loved connecting with other community members and seeing everyone's animals! ...
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Cooking with Devon - Contract Management – Grocery List

By Devon Bilsing posted Wed February 26, 2025
The Days() Keep Coming, and they don't stop... Ingredients: ITPF Contract Budget Data Days() - function Homemade Report Assumptions: Make this grocery list only if you have published contract data from Planning to Costing. Steps: Create new table Home Ribbon->New->Table Name it Contracts Transform Source is existing ...
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How Interactive Learning Enhances Customer Onboarding and Product Understanding

By Chanchal Nambiar posted Fri February 21, 2025
Introduction Customer onboarding is a critical first step in the user journey, shaping how customers interact with and perceive a product. A smooth, engaging onboarding experience can increase product adoption, improve retention, and reduce support inquiries . However, traditional onboarding methods—such as static documentation, webinars, and ...
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Happy Valentine's Day

By Florence Matthews posted Fri February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine's Day from Apptio! On this special day of love, we want to take a moment to express how much we appreciate YOU, our amazing customers. Your support and loyalty mean the world to us, and we're so grateful to have you as part of our community. Thank you for trusting us with your needs and for allowing us to be a part of your ...
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Cooking with Devon - 3 Circles – A bit of Salt

By Devon Bilsing posted Wed February 12, 2025
Ingredients: Financial Analysis (or any type of variance report will do) Icon() Assorted Formula Columns Assumptions: This isn’t a recipe, not really, more of a seasoning. A large grain of finishing salt that goes on top of the main course for flavor right at the end! For this, you’ll want a report comparing two metrics ( Cost vs Forecast, ...
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Unlocking IBM-Apptio Training: A Step-by-Step Guide for Customers and Partners

By Shalu Jha posted Wed February 12, 2025
In today’s fast-paced tech world, training is crucial for success, and IBM-Apptio offers a wealth of resources for both customers and partners to help enhance their knowledge and skills. Whether you are a customer looking to dive into Apptio’s education services or a partner aiming to leverage IBM training, this blog will walk you through how to access ...
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Meet the Instructional Design Team: Empowering Learning, Driving Success

By Alla Powell posted Fri February 07, 2025
At IBM, our Apptio Education Instructional Design team plays a key role in supporting the success of our clients, partners, and internal teams. Made up of eight instructional designers, we focus on creating high-quality learning content that helps people make the most of Apptio’s solutions, including the FinOps and the full suite of Apptio products. ...
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Insightful Conversations: How Apptio’s Certifications Shape Professional Success

By Sujina S posted Thu February 06, 2025
At IBM Apptio, we are committed to empowering professionals and helping them advance in their careers. One of the most impactful tools in achieving this is our certification process. To offer a deeper understanding of how these certifications can benefit, we are excited to present an exclusive interview with Ms Sabeeha Kutty ( @Sabeeha Kutty ) our ...
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Cooking with Devon - Vendors to Multiple Applications – Building Robust Towers

By Devon Bilsing posted Wed February 05, 2025
Ingredients: Vendor List – single records, all vendors Vendor to Multiple Apps List – only vendors going to multiple apps Assumptions: This recipe assumes you have a General Ledger loaded and piped to Cost Source and that the ledger contains Vendor information. Also, that you have an initial setup of your IT Resource Tower ...
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FactSet Replaces Custom Tool with IBM Cloudability and Advances FinOps to the Next Level

By Janie Carothers posted Wed February 05, 2025
With approximately 3,000 cloud accounts across AWS and Azure to manage, FactSet needed more transparency and insight to create a trusted showback/chargeback process, arm engineers with actionable information, and optimize cloud spend. Implementing IBM Cloudability enabled them to replace their internally built cloud cost management application with ...
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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗕𝗠 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆?

By Dinesh Divakaran posted Sat February 01, 2025
Everyone talks about FinOps when it comes to cloud cost control. But TBM? It’s the only framework that provides a structured way to align IT spending - both digital and non-digital - with business value. Today most IT cost-cutting efforts focus on cloud costs. But what about on-prem data centers, networking, end-user ...
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Cooking with Devon - And Friends - Year to Year Forecast Report

By Devon Bilsing posted Fri January 31, 2025
Goal: As a finance leader, I want to see the YoY delta of my previous year actuals to my current year forecast such that I can be proactive in managing my current year spend. Ingredients: General Ledger Forecast Home-made Metrics Prepare ahead of time: Ensure you have your General Ledger and Forecast (either manual or ITPF version) ...
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Guiding Technology Investments: Insights for Business Leaders

By Janie Carothers posted Tue January 28, 2025
Our 2025 Apptio Global Research Report “ Guiding Technology Investments: Insights for Business Leaders ” is now LIVE! This report distills insights from Apptio Global Technology Decision-maker Survey that was deployed Sept 2024 with focus on 2025 priority areas and future expectations (2026-2028). Sample topic areas include: How ...
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Meet the Apptio Customer Experience Team – Here to Help You Use and Love Our Product!

By Florence Matthews posted Mon January 27, 2025
At Apptio, we believe that the journey doesn’t end after you sign up for our software. In fact, it’s just beginning! We’re committed to not just providing you with a tool, but with a lasting partnership that ensures you get the most out of our product. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our Customer Experience (CX) team—a dedicated group of experts ...
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Cooking with Devon - GL Vendor Updates – Using Editable Tables

By Devon Bilsing posted Fri January 24, 2025
Ingredients General Ledger with sparse vendor details Vendor List (if you can’t make from scratch, store bought is fine) A pinch of scripts Steps: Load General Ledger into Apptio Costing and utilize appropriate date partition Load Vendor List into Apptio Costing Call it myVendorList Add formulas step and formula called Vendor ...
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IBM Apptio and IBM Cloudability Named 2025 Buyer's Choice Award Winners!

By Janie Carothers posted Wed January 22, 2025
We are excited to announce that IBM Apptio and IBM Cloudability have been named a 2025 Buyer’s Choice Award winner by TrustRadius! The inaugural Buyer's Choice Awards are based entirely on vetted, unbiased customer reviews. Reviewers are asked if products and their support teams live up to expectations; and if they would buy the product again. ...
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