Certificate Overview
This IBM professional certificate is designed to build advanced proficiency in IBM Apptio’s Costing Standard, including the ability to optimize complex allocations, manage sophisticated data structures, and validate end‑to‑end model accuracy to produce transparent, defensible technology financial insights.
Recommended audience:
System administrators, enterprise platform owners, configuration leads, and technical delivery leaders.
Contains:
Introduction and Overview: 10 minutes
Review the certification course structure, learning outcomes, and recommended learning path designed to guide your Apptio Costing Standard journey and help you maximize success.
Optimizing Data, Allocations, and Reports: 2 hours, 13 minutes
Develop techniques for improving allocations, using unipivot and flatten hierarchy functions, and enhancing data management. This module also covers advanced report modeling to help refine your overall build.
Creating Reports to Defend Your Numbers (Instructor-led course): 3 hours
Create and configure reports in TBM Studio by navigating the report surface, building tables and KPIs, using interactive components, adjusting layouts and formatting, and understanding factors that impact report performance.
Building Defensible Insights (Instructor-led course): 3 hours
This virtual instructor-led training focuses on creating and configuring reports in New Report Studio. It covers how to navigate the report workspace, build tables and KPIs, incorporate interactive components, and refine layouts and formatting. It also introduces key factors that can impact report performance, helping users design efficient and effective reports.
Data, Model, and Report Validation (Instructor-led course): 3 hours
Validate cost models and reports by reviewing model inputs, allocation logic, data quality, and report fields to ensure complete, accurate cost flows.
Deconstructing a Report: 52 minutes
Explain report numbers to business stakeholders by tracing the full data path, reviewing report configuration and cost composition, and validating results back to the source data.
Practitioner: IBM Apptio Costing Standard Administrator Exam: 1 hour
Complete the 30-question certification exam to earn the IBM Professional Certificate in Apptio Costing Standard Administrator, validating expertise in advanced cost modeling, complex allocations, and end‑to‑end model accuracy to deliver transparent, defensible technology financial insights.