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Apptio and Carahsoft have partnered together to provide a series of self-guided tours of Apptio's products and features. Similar to a live demo, the self-guided tours explores how Apptio's products and features applies to a specific technology vertical such as MultiCloud.

 

Learn about Apptio's benefits, watch a short pre-recorded demo video, and download related resources. If interested in furthering the conversation, you can also schedule a live demo with a Apptio expert from Carahsoft. Start a Self-Guided Tour now by selecting one below: 

 

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Apptio aids Government agencies in optimizing their technology investments amidst the growing importance of public cloud usage. With cloud financial management and FinOps practices, it addresses the decentralized, consumption-based spending model of the cloud. By offering cloud cost management & optimization and cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions, Apptio helps maximize technology value. The rise of public cloud has transformed IT infrastructure procurement, enabling rapid provisioning and decentralization of decision-making. However, this dynamic spending model requires new governance processes to prevent waste and ensure ROI. Apptio assists in breaking down complex cloud bills, attributing costs to responsible business groups and identifying cost-saving opportunities.


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Cloudability

Cloudability is the leading FinOps solution in the market. Cloudability brings financial accountability to the variable, consumption-based spend model of public cloud via single-pane-of-glass visibility across the major cloud providers. Apptio Cloudability is art of Apptio's Cloud Financial Management solution set. At a high level, the three key value propositions for Cloudability are:

Benefits:

  • Allocate costs incurred across the public cloud providers
  • Leverage optimization recommendations covering a wide set of cloud services across multi-cloud environments to reduce operating expenses and fund future investments
  • Enable team ownership of cloud spend with flexible, tailored reporting and analytics, making it easy for stakeholders to correlate spend to business value and increasing the speed of strategic decision making for IT leaders across the enterprise
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Cloudability TotalCost

Cloudability TotalCost enables cloud leaders and FinOps experts to connect public cloud spend to indirect cloud spend, including observability tools that support self-managed infrastructure, specialized third-party platforms and services, and labor. Advanced cost sharing capabilities are also provided to split shared costs and allocate them back to the business. When combined with the power of Apptio's leading FinOps tool, Cloudability, it helps organizations capture and bring financial accountability to the total cost of running cloud. Cloudability TotalCost enables organizations to:

Benefits:

  • Programmatically source indirect costs from third-party endpoints and combine with Cloudability data to surface cloud TCO
  • Use telemetry, proportional or other rules to fairly split shared costs and assign them back to the business
  • Monitor cloud costs using budget variance analysis and alert when costs reach certain points
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ApptioOne Plus

ApptioOne Plus brings end-to-end visibility to technology spend in an organization by combining relevant financial and operational data into a single model. It establishes an IT Financial Management practice and enables technology leaders to make faster data-driven decisions to keep pace with the speed of business today. Compare updated forecasts to actuals and identify budget variances and reallocate funds from underspent projects to deliver maximzed ROI. Eliminate siloed IT financial management with a comprehensive implementation that can easily focus on specific areas as needed. Deepen business unit connections by providing transparency and options to manage their technology spend. ApptioOne Plus was purpose-built to help organizations optimize application TCO, rationalize their apps and service portfolio, and manage business unit consumption. Coupled with Apptio's proprietary allocation strategies, metrics, KPIs, and reporting structure, organizations can come together to optimize and align their current approach to IT and invest more deeply in growth initiatives. ApptioOne Plus enables organizations to:

Benefits:

  • Identify fully burdened application costs with visibility into specific use cases and addressable spend
  • Create visualizations and guidance to help identify redundant and duplicative applications for elimination
  • Provide a business-centric view of technology with insights that help IT organizations unlock and shift resources
  • Retain the ability to understand 'root-cause' for any business unit expense from the app/product/service down to the general ledger
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The 3 Phases of FinOps with Apptio (Inform)

Phase 1 Inform: During this phase agencies, organizations, and businesses aim to gain visibility into their cloud spending and understand where their money is spent. Apptio provides tools and analytics that help organizations track and analyze their cloud costs in real-time.

Benefits:

  • Cost Allocation
  • Showback/chargeback mechanisms
  • Detailed reporting dashboards that provide insights
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The 3 Phases of FinOps with Apptio (Optimize)

Phase 2 Optimize: The next phase is to optimize costs and identify opportunities for savings.

Benefits:

  • Analyze Cloud Usage Data
  • Right-Sizing
  • Eliminate waste and leveraging savings
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The 3 Phases of FinOps with Apptio (Operate)

Phase 3 Operate: The operate phase involves implementing processes and controls to manage cloud spending on an ongoing basis.

Benefits:

  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Governance and Compliance - Identify any deviations or anomalies in real-time

Apptio’s Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Categorize all cloud costs automatically with near real-time collection of billing exports from AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Engage with your allocated spend in one place to achieve visibility and resource-level analytics across the major cloud providers.
  • Notify individuals and teams proactively on cost events and budget compliance.