IBM Apptio

Score8.7 out of 10

330 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM Apptio?

The IBM Apptio platform is a technology business management solution that enables organizations to make better decisions about technology investments. It connects technology spend to business value so organizations can adapt to changing market conditions.

Categories & Use Cases

Technology Business Management

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

20.2%

219 installations of 1,083

“We are using cost transparency and have started to implement IT Planning.”
— Senior TBM Office Manager, Skipton Building Society (1001-5000 employees)

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

13.5%

146 installations of 1,083

“i was able to save cloud costs using Apptio”
— Back-End Developer, LavaPi (51-200 employees)

#3 most frequent

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13.4%

145 installations of 1,083

Paul Haines

Senior TBM Office Manager in Information Technology at Skipton Building Society (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using cost transparency and have started to implement IT Planning. We are looking to provide a greater level of transparency for the business on our IT costs and to gain greater control over our budgeting and forecasting.

Pros

Bringing multiple datasets together
Bespoke and out of the box reporting
Data integrations to finance and hr tooling

Cons

The UI is dated and would benefit from an upgrade
The UI across Apptio products should be the same
Integration of common language AI

Usability

Return on Investment

Increased visibility and access to financial data
Data is provided in a language tech people understand.

Other Software Used

Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Financial Management, EasyVista EV Self Help

Carole Stairs View profile

Director Of Analytics at IAG (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Apptio is our IT expense management system. We use it across all departments for cost management, inventory, accounts payable and receivable, and general accounting. It's a flexible system that adapts to your needs to accurately track costs.

Pros

The system is flexible and adapts to your business needs to adjust costs correctly.
It supports frequent updates that add new integrations, features, and tools to further enhance your marketing and much more.
All the right tools to keep your data and accounting up to date.

Cons

It does not have historical balance sheets

Usability

Return on Investment

It's a good financial accounting system; I think it was perfectly designed for multi-user LAN environments.
More integrations with financial applications.

Alternatives Considered

Dropbox Business, Google Drive and Microsoft Teams

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Asana, TeamViewer

Rachael Thomas

TBM practitioner in Information Technology at EDF Energy (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Apptio to recharge monthly invoices by user to Business Inits. We also do our yearly MTP and quarterly LE budgets. We feed this info back to EIT SLT and BUs.

Pros

Easy to upload data as required
Easy to create formulas to get the data in the right format for recharge
Easily creates budgets and rolling forecasts

Cons

Can be slow when showing live demos

Usability

Return on Investment

Great for cost optimisation as budgets are clear and BUs are aware of costs

Sumanth Dupuguntla

TBM and FinOps Lead in Information Technology at Legal and General (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cost Transparency and TCO for the Product and platform model that we are adapting to.

Pros

Cost transparency
Cloud costs
Allocations

Cons

Allocations
Shared costs
Cost centre to tower mappings

Usability

Return on Investment

Cost savings
Forecasting
Planning

Alternatives Considered

AWS Cost Explorer and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI

Jonas Dambrauskas

Business analyst in Finance and Accounting at Danske Bank (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization,We are using Costing and planning modules. Main issues are with reporting, visualizations and for planning part Labor planning is very inconvenient due to separate tabs for existing and planned, users have to jump between these tabs, don't have combined view of actual and planned FTEs in one sheet.

Pros

Data transparency
self service works well for deep dive

Cons

Reporting
Visualization
planning

Usability

Return on Investment

We have more transparency in data
unified planning approach

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop

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