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IBM Costing provides a unified view of IT financial and operational data to identify optimization opportunities, optimize application costs, rationalize your portfolio to unlock resources for growth.
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Purpose-built for technology leaders, IBM Costing delivers a clear, easy-to-understand view of an organization's diverse and evolving tech costs, facilitating impactful discussions across the business and driving informed decisions in a rapidly changing tech landscape. IBM's industry-leading allocation strategies tackle the difficult task of bringing together financial and operational data into a common, centralized framework, providing transparency on key spend drivers tied to business priorities, enabling leaders to focus on business outcomes and the value of each dollar spent, rather than chasing down data or constantly updating spreadsheets. This information can be used balance and rationalize the portfolio and then reinvest the savings into growth projects. Costing enables IT, Technology and Finance leaders to speak the language of the Business partner and with them optimize tech investments and fund digital transformation. IBM Costing is FedRamp certified.
Highlights
- Quickly and easily allocate IT costs to business units, services or applications
- Provide consumption-based allocations to the organization
- Identify cost savings and optimization opportunities - Optimize application costs - Rationalize your portfolio
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Costing Standard $0-$25M | Manage up to $25M of IT spend for fixed cost; addl fees above $25M/yr | $110,040.00 |
Costing Essentials $0-$25M | Manage up to $25M of IT spend for fixed cost; addl fees above $25M/yr | $80,040.00 |
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Cost Allocation Methodology
Advanced consumption-based allocation strategy for distributing IT financial data across business units and services
Financial Data Consolidation
Centralized framework for integrating financial and operational technology data into a unified view
Portfolio Optimization
Automated identification and analysis of cost savings and optimization opportunities within technology infrastructure
Compliance Certification
FedRamp certified solution ensuring adherence to government cloud security standards
Technology Investment Analysis
Comprehensive tracking and evaluation of technology spend drivers aligned with business priorities
Strategic Portfolio Management
Combines business and technology planning to optimize funding and resource allocation across multiple organizational functions
Resource Capacity Optimization
Enables balancing of capacity against demand and prioritization of work across teams and projects
Visibility and Tracking
Provides end-to-end visibility into project execution and tracks actual performance against planned metrics
Agile Planning Integration
Supports connection of strategic plans and funding directly to Agile delivery methodologies
Enterprise Planning Coordination
Facilitates cross-functional planning and execution alignment between executives, finance, technology, and project management teams
Workflow Management
Supports complex project hierarchies from portfolios to sprints with customizable workflows and approval processes
Traceability System
Provides end-to-end artifact traceability linking requirements, risks, tasks, tests, and defects through a relational structure
AI-Powered Automation
Utilizes natural language processing for generating user stories, identifying risk patterns, and providing predictive project insights
Compliance Tracking
Includes electronic signatures, user-level audit trails, and role-based permissions for regulatory compliance across industries
Resource Allocation
Enables workload management with tools to assign, prioritize, and estimate work across teams, roles, and individuals
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Information Technology and Services
Apptio for effective cloud cost management
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to finops visibility across multiple clouds
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is very hard to identify the resources entity variables to be able to pull it into report
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The goal is to gain visibility into cloud costs across different teams in order to keep spending under control.
John C.
Excellent software
Reviewed on Oct 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Enables FinOps as a service for large enterprises
What do you dislike about the product?
Could use more Urban Code/IBM DevOps integration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloud cost management
Retail
Good product that needs more outreach
Reviewed on Oct 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, good training material overall
What do you dislike about the product?
Needs more features related to AI which can make it more easy to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Forecasting
Maksym C.
Finops in one action
Reviewed on Oct 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Great to unify all finops. Aptio provides just enough to be useful without any additional dificulties.
What do you dislike about the product?
Apptio takes some time to adapt; modern design is definitely a choice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a student, I used Apptio for my PE internship. Apptio was amazing at consolidating information from many other sources.
R R.
Great for management cloud budget
Reviewed on Oct 07, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Great result in visibility of the multi clouds but Dificult to justify the ROI
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to show the Roi, because the price is easy to justify the first months, but with a customer with stable environment the Cloud architecture and bill doesn’t change the near future
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main benefit is visibility, manage and reduce cloud investment