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Driving Financial Efficiency in SAP On-Premise Environments with IBM Apptio

By Ankit Guria posted Fri November 15, 2024
Simplifying SAP On-Prem Financials with Clarity, Efficiency, and Insights Managing SAP on-premise financials can be complex, especially when addressing areas like vendor management, IT tower management, and IT services management. With IBM Apptio, organizations can simplify these processes through seamless data integration, enhanced visibility, and ...
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Apptio is now part of the IBM TechXchange Community!

By Florence Matthews posted Wed October 30, 2024
Welcome! We are excited to welcome you to our new online community platform IBM TechXchange! This is your new hub for connecting and collaborating with Apptio product users. Why You’ll Love Being Part of This Community This community is designed to be a valuable resource for you throughout your journey with Apptio. 1. Learn from ...
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IBM Apptio Costing Essentials (Previoulsy known as Apptio Cost Management) - New courses now live!

By Rebecca Wagner posted Wed April 03, 2024
Education Services is pleased to announce the release of two much-anticipated courses: IBM Apptio Costing Essentials Introduction & IBM Apptio Costing Essentials Workbench Advanced . The IBM Apptio Costing Essentials Introduction course introduces new customers to IBM Apptio Costing Essentials and customers are encouraged to take ...
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ACP: ApptioOne 2023 Certifications now Available

By Debbie Hagen posted Fri December 16, 2022
Last updated April 14. 2023 Hello fellow Apptio Enthusiasts, As many of you know, ApptioOne certifications are annually renewable and each year we offer a path for AAEP holders to upgrade your ApptioOne Certifications. Here is what you can expect for 2023 . ACP (Apptio Certified Practitioner): ApptioOne The upgrade path from ...
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[Tips & Tricks - Absorption Analysis] Computing Over/Under Allocations from Cost Source to Model End Point Objects (e.g. Applications/Business Cost Centers)

By Kyle Castro posted Thu October 13, 2022
Objective In Apptio R12, create a report that computes the specific amounts by your key Cost Source Accounts (i.e. Account and IT Cost Center) that are over/under allocating to the end point/s of your model. In our case, these model end points are Applications and Business Cost Centers. By generating this report we are able to better pinpoint ...
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Improving Your Data Visualizations

By Justin Kean posted Tue July 26, 2022
Data is an interesting thing. Audiences say that they want “just the facts,” when they really want “just the facts that are pertinent to this discussion.” As presenters, it’s our responsibility to tell a clear story with our data. We need to guide our audience to the most important KPI, the supporting data for a specific course of action, or confirmation ...
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Applying Agile Principles to Apptio Cost Transparency

By Doug Greer posted Wed January 26, 2022
Applying Agile Principles to Apptio Cost Transparency Changing your mindset to realize immediate outcomes for your TBM program Perfection being the enemy of good is a concept that reaches back to the 1700s. While a well-aged aphorism, this idea still applies to many facets of business, including Agile principles and cost transparency. ...
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Moving from assumption to consumption

By Julie Batty posted Wed December 08, 2021
​Moving from assumption based to consumption based An element of our TBM Office roadmap is to become a Trusted Advisor which initiated a review of our allocation metrics to ensure clarity and fairness are being maintained. We created a tooling team, collaborating with the Software Asset Management team, to identify licence consumption data using ...
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State of TBM: Early Findings May Surprise You!

By Apptio Community Member posted Thu August 26, 2021
As many of you know, the TBM Council launched the State of TBM 2021 survey several weeks ago . The survey, along with other primary and secondary research, will reveal the current state of TBM practices, organizational designs, skillsets and staffing, data and reporting, as well as benefits achieved. I took a look at our early findings (based ...
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New Feature for v2.97 - Change History (June 2021)

By Apptio Community Member posted Thu August 05, 2021
One of the most requested features for IT Planning is finally here! The Change History feature tracks user-initiated events across your ITFMF application and surfaces them on a new Event Log page. Events tracked in the Event Log specify the who, what, and when of any change made across the application (from individual changes to line-item table ...
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ETBMA 2021 Case Study : Creating a defensible AppTCO

By Apptio Community Member posted Mon July 19, 2021
App TCO Case Study Beginning October 2020, we embarked on a significant AppTCO model upgrade to bring accountability, actionability and insights to Application TCO reporting. The initial implementation delivered the ability to see costs allocate through the model using “good” allocation strategies, referencing Apptio’s Good/Better/Best philosophy, ...
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ETBMA Case Study 2021-Drove Business Value with Cost Transperancy

By Apptio Community Member posted Tue July 13, 2021
Insights to IT costs are critical to drive business value for the IT organisation and helps the CTO and other stakeholders take decisions. The availability of accurate and valid insights will help create action plans to optimise opportunities TBMO was successful in creating a very interactive dashboard which had all the insights required for ...
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Welcome to Product Potpourri Episode 5

By Justin Kean posted Fri July 09, 2021
Welcome to our latest edition of Product Potpourri! Below you’ll find questions raised by students from the Apptio University Instructor-led classes. As an Instructor, I always enjoy having a great discussion in class about any of our Apptio products or functionalities. Hopefully, these questions and answers will help you with questions you have ...
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ETBMA 2021 - Case study - "Drove business value using Apptio"

By Apptio Community Member posted Sun April 25, 2021
Drove business value using Apptio Spend analysis monitors transactions to keep a track on a vendor’s financial performance and credibility. Since most projects are majorly dependent on suppliers, this analysis helps identify risk beforehand, which enables procurement to make alternate plans . Despite of being a common occurrence there were inconsistencies ...
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How do you get Storage costs to Applications and Network costs Data to Servers?

By Apptio Community Member posted Fri April 16, 2021
Our Storage and Network data in our CMDB is confusing to state it lightly. How/Where are you getting your Storage and Network data for Cost Transparency? We currently don't have a path in our CMDB to link Storage and Network costs to Application. How is your CMDB configured to get allocation data for Storage and Network spend to the Application? ...
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Empower Business stakeholders with Meaningful insights - ETBMA 2021

By Apptio Community Member posted Wed February 24, 2021
Empower Business stakeholders with Meaningful insights on what makes up the IT cost by providing granular level information in a language that Business understands. As a TBMA my primary focus is to create Transparency and define IT’s value by translating “spending, consumption and capacity into meaningful perspectives for technology and business ...
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Coming Soon -- Apex Navigation for CT releases 23 Apr 2021

By Florence Matthews posted Mon December 14, 2020
Eager to learn more about the user experience in Cost Transparency with the Apex User Interface? NOTE: The release date for Apex for CT has been pushed back to 23 April 2021 to provide more time to review the new user experience. The recording will still refer to the old date, 2 April 2021. Check out this overview from CT Product Manager Ed ...
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Tips for Navigating in the New Apex ITP User Interface

By Florence Matthews posted Mon December 14, 2020
Navigation in Apptio has changed a bit. If you’re an existing user, you’re used to seeing this when you log in to your Apptio product: Now when you log in, you’ll see the new user interface. The IT Planning navigation is shown here. You can immediately see the Plan and Section. For the views menu, click on the double-arrow icon in the bar to ...
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