IBM Apptio’s new TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) solutions are designed to help organizations understand, manage, and optimize the full cost of their IT investments across cloud, on-prem, hybrid IT, and emerging areas like AI. Together, these out-of-the box, and easy to use, solutions enhance Apptio’s IT financial management (ITFM) suite as a powerful engine for aligning IT spend with business outcomes, driving cost efficiency, and enabling data‑driven decisions across hybrid and AI-driven environments.  

 Now, let’s take a closer look at each solution and the strategic impact it can drive for your business. 

Hybrid IT TCO Impact  

According to Gartner, 43% of CIOs are prioritizing technology financial management to better balance cost, value, and risk1. Yet many organizations still struggle to unify cloud and on-prem footprints, aggregate cost data from different data silos, and gain a clear before/ after view of migration impacts.  IBM Apptio’s Hybrid IT TCO Impact helps demonstrate the true financial impact of application migrations across your evolving Hybrid IT landscape. 

Hybrid IT TCO Impact is a purpose-built solution that provides an ongoing, defensible financial view into application migrations across a Hybrid IT landscape. It enables organizations to understand and track the ongoing financial impact of application migration on Total Cost of Ownership, Unit Cost, and Usage Volumes, while also giving them insight into the underlying cost drivers behind the change.    

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AI TCO & Usage 

According to Gartner, 90% of CIOs say that managing costs limits their ability to get value from AI for their enterprise3. Fragmented and understated AI costs, high velocity in AI consumption, and difficulty adopting and scaling AI lead to one big cross-functional challenge.  IBM Apptio’s AI TCO & Usage gives you full visibility into AI costs, consumption, and value to optimize investments, track outcomes, and scale AI with confidence. 

AI Investment TCO & Usage is a purpose-built solution for tracking and optimizing AI investments, providing full transparency into ongoing AI costs, consumption, and value. Continuously monitor TCO and measure outcomes across AI use cases to drive smarter scaling decisions and maximize AI’s impact across your organization.

By unifying cost and usage data, AI TCO & Usage helps you spot inefficiencies, prevent AI sprawl, and make smarter scaling decisions, turning AI from a budgeting unknown into a strategic, measurable advantage.  

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Public Cloud TCO 

According to Gartner, 70% of organizations negotiating large public cloud deals are unable to accurately track total spend and quantify business value. Public cloud costs are often spread across multiple providers, instances, business areas and regions and leaders lack direct visibility into quantity details, and a unit cost perspective. IBM Apptio’s Public Cloud TCO solution delivers complete financial visibility into your public cloud investments; helping IT Finance teams understand the true financial impact of public cloud spend - enabling the right conversations with IT and public cloud teams.   

Public Cloud TCO is a reporting and insights solution that provides IT Finance teams with a unified view of their total public cloud spend, insights into unit cost metrics for both compute and storage spend, as well as insights into reserved instance usage and efficiency. This solution delivers clear, actionable intelligence, empowering IT Finance to inform and support public cloud investment conversations. 

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