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IBM Costing and Planning unlocks the resources to accelerate business strategies by streamlining applications and operations and deepens business unit partnerships with a collaborative approach to investments.
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IBM Costing & Planning (FedRAMP Authorized), brings together all financial and operational data into a unified model built on the TBM taxonomy to provide a common language between finance, technology leaders and business units. Built on the foundations of IBM Costing this product unlocks the resources to accelerate business strategies by streamlining applications and operations, accelerating planning cycles, and deepening business unit partnerships with a collaborative approach to investments based on transparency of costs.
Highlights
- Provide a business-centric view of technology investments with insights that helps IT organizations unlock and shift resources - Understand the root-cause for any business unit expense from the app/product/service down to the general ledger - Optimize Application TCO - Lower the cost of specific applications by understanding the associated fully-burdened cost structure
- Rationalize Your Entire Application and Service Portfolio - Lower the cost of your application and service portfolio by identifying and eliminating duplications and underutilized applications
- Manage Business Unit Consumption - Partner with the business unit leaders to achieve their business objectives with the most cost-effective IT solution
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Manage up to $25M of IT spend for fixed cost; addl fees above $25M/yr | $142,800.00 |
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Unified Financial and Operational Data Model
Consolidates all financial and operational data into a unified model built on the TBM taxonomy to provide a common language between finance, technology leaders and business units.
Application Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
Enables optimization of application TCO by understanding the associated fully-burdened cost structure and tracing root-cause expenses from applications, products, or services down to the general ledger.
Application and Service Portfolio Rationalization
Identifies and eliminates duplications and underutilized applications within the entire application and service portfolio to reduce overall costs.
Business Unit Consumption Management
Provides cost-effective IT solution recommendations by partnering with business unit leaders to align IT consumption with business objectives.
AI-Driven Forecasting Capability
Anaplan Forecaster provides next-generation AI-driven forecasting natively built into the platform, enabling creation of accurate, transparent, and scalable forecasts that integrate into enterprise planning.
Real-Time Cloud-Based Planning Environment
Unified real-time, cloud-based environment that enables dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, human resources, and operations.
Financial and Operational Modeling
Flexible modeling capabilities that automate, structure, and connect financial and operational solutions including FP&A, opex, sales planning, sales incentives, pipeline and revenue forecasting.
Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration
Real-time collaboration capabilities across departments, functions, suppliers, and customers through supply, demand, and sales & operations planning solutions with supply chain intelligence.
Cross-Organizational Data Integration
Connected planning platform that links people, data, and plans across organizational silos to surface key insights and optimize decision-making from strategic to operational levels.
Multi-Cloud Cost Consolidation
Consolidates billing data from all cloud providers, data warehouses, CDNs, Kubernetes, and Datadog into a unified dashboard with configurable granularity levels.
Dynamic Cost Allocation
Provides virtual tagging capability to instantly tag and allocate costs across teams, environments, applications, and reallocate shared costs using custom metrics without modifying infrastructure tags.
Waste Detection and Optimization
Detects idle resources, rightsizing opportunities, and commitment waste through CostGuard, providing automated recommendations to reduce infrastructure costs.
Granular Cost Attribution
Enables cost analysis and profitability measurement at detailed business levels including per-customer, per-feature, per-transaction, and per-event metrics.
Customizable Reporting and Access Control
Supports creation of custom dashboards with role-based data access to display cost, usage, budget, and waste metrics tailored to different organizational stakeholders.
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Customer reviews
Ashley Njuguna
Cost transparency has transformed budgeting and forecasting and improves IT spend accountability
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
Apptio Costing is one of the best and a game changer in IT financial analysis tools. In my organization, I use it for annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and capital project tracking. I also use Apptio Costing to manage IT spend requests.
Regarding my main use case, I use Apptio Costing for cost allocation, showback/chargeback, and TCO reporting.
What is most valuable?
The best features that Apptio Costing offers include data aggregation, flexibility, support communication, dynamic reporting, ease of use, and IT reporting.
Out of those features, planning, budget, and forecasting in Apptio Costing has made the biggest difference for my team, as it helps with annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and capital project tracking.
Loading actuals from Oracle in Apptio Costing is great.
Apptio Costing has positively impacted my organization by improving forecast accuracy, streamlining the annual budgeting process and saving a lot of time, and capturing a record of Capex spend approvals has also been improved.
My team now works roughly 40 to 65% faster as a result of the time savings from Apptio Costing.
What needs improvement?
Apptio Costing can be improved with more spend AI insights.
The user interface of Apptio Costing should be more intuitive and easy to navigate for new users.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Apptio Costing for seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Apptio Costing is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good because it has continued to grow with my organization.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Apptio Costing is very responsive and proactive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, I was using IBM Cloudability before switching to Apptio Costing.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment from Apptio Costing, which includes the acceleration of the planning process. The controlled environment and automation has been great, saving time and cost, while project accounting has been streamlined to reduce errors.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Apptio Costing was that everything was cost-effective and affordable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Apptio Costing, I evaluated IBM Cloudability as one of the options.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Apptio Costing as nine out of ten.
I give it a nine out of ten because it has delivered cost transparency, especially to my tech spend.
My advice to others looking into using Apptio Costing is that cost transparency and TCO for the product and platform model that I was unable to achieve previously has now been accomplished. Apptio Costing is a wonderful product for TBM implementation, which also needs a few enhancements to meet current industry standards.
Apptio Costing is a great tool for allocating cost to business units and great for transparency, especially in IT spend and IT tech spend.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Alice Hanan
Budgeting and forecasting have become faster and provide leadership with actionable IT spend insights
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Apptio Costing is that we use Apptio One primarily for IT budgeting and forecasting. We use it for both departmental operating expenses and project financial reviews with IT leadership.
We budget, forecast, and monitor IT and tech digital spend. Apptio Costing allows us to monitor actual spending and provides reports based on our IT hierarchy.
What is most valuable?
The best features Apptio Costing offers include the ability to create different scenarios, the ability to connect with other systems to roll data, and an intuitive way of usage.
The features also include analytics, reporting, and the ability to incorporate changes and adjust reporting quickly and seamlessly. Apptio Costing has accelerated ad hoc analysis and reduced our forecasting cycle from forty-five days to thirty days.
What needs improvement?
Apptio Costing could be improved in calculating quantity versus entering the total amount. Additionally, addressing open IT tickets should be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Apptio Costing for seven years.
What other advice do I have?
Apptio Costing is very easy to use and is a great tool for planning models for project budget and forecasting that is highly recommendable. It is an awesome tool for saving data information instead of using Excel spreadsheets. I would rate this product a nine out of ten.
Noah Trevor
Improved financial transparency has driven data-based decisions and optimized IT service costs
Reviewed on Mar 28, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Apptio Costing involves using data from IT operational and financial systems to relatively quickly construct a flexible, actionable set of budget, cost, and operational models and reports that are expected to become even more accurate over time. Our visibility to near-real-time consumption and related cost of IT services is a powerful capability, presenting important opportunities for decision-making and performance improvement progress.
As IT becomes more and more integrated into business, Apptio Costing provides a valuable enterprise-level solution to companies, especially organizations with large IT expenditures that do not already have solid IT services costing, planning, and performance measuring capability in one place.
Uncovering even small amounts of savings and performance improvement opportunity is also part of my main use case.
What is most valuable?
Apptio Costing offers exceptional reporting features that are second to none, showing companies what data to collect and how to go about creating and collecting consistent data, providing visibility into the IT department unlike any other software, and always improving and getting better.
The reporting feature is second to none. The standard out-of-the-box reporting shows incredible insights and gives the information executives need to make the correct decisions easily.
Service costing is another valuable feature. If you have to buy any module, this will be it. Comprehensive bottom-up service cost analysis and reporting is excellent.
Apptio Costing has positively impacted my organization in every way. It has been beneficial to each and every customer, and its relatively quick implementation process saves time. The savings that are provided by finding unnecessary servers, expensive storage, or even phone bills that are not being utilized but paid for is incredible. Employees can make better decisions based on facts and not on assumptions about the unknown benefit of the IT department. Our IT department is now treated as an asset to the business and not just an expense. Our company can now make better technical investments and also increase productivity by a larger margin.
Specific outcomes and metrics include an improvement in productivity from 40 to 55 percent improvement. Cost reduction has been significant, where we have reduced cost from 45 to 25 percent.
What needs improvement?
Apptio Costing features are becoming easier to use, but there is constant progression like any other software.
The user interface should be more intuitive and user-friendly, especially for new learners to adapt more quickly.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Apptio Costing for approximately seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Apptio Costing is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good and has handled my organization's growth well, making it very scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Apptio Costing is very responsive and proactive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used SAP Access Control and SAP Ariba Procurement .
I switched from those solutions to Apptio Costing because Apptio Costing is very easy to use and user-friendly. The cost is relatively affordable. It is a great tool to show transparency, especially when it comes to finance on the IT department and other departments. It enables making data-driven decisions easily. Apptio Costing is a highly recommendable tool for any organization.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as Apptio Costing is positively contributing to our application rationalization, infrastructure optimization, and driving efficiencies across IT with more automated reporting.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reveals that the licensing cost is affordable and very cost-effective.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Apptio Costing, I evaluated other options, specifically SAP Access Control .
What other advice do I have?
Apptio Costing has made our lives so much easier. We can easily adjust the budget and incorporate changes on the fly and show management the immediate effect of the business change. Apptio Costing is a highly recommendable tool. I would rate this product nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Yvonne Wanjiru
Cost transparency has improved planning and project accounting and demonstrates IT value clearly
Reviewed on Mar 27, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
In my organization, the main use case for Apptio Costing is to show the entire IT cost transparency and to demonstrate IT value.
What is most valuable?
I have been using Apptio Costing for the past eight years; even in my previous organization, I was using Apptio Costing.
The customization reporting in Apptio Costing provides straightforward analysis and financial insights, leading to cost transparency and planning that supports our business cases. In my opinion, the best features that Apptio Costing offers are providing a common language for our business, tech, and finance teams, customization reporting, and transparency into IT spend, which allows for forecasting and dashboards.
The platform capabilities in optimizing cost management processes include detailed expense tracking, cost transparency, and efficient financial planning functionality.
Apptio Costing has positively impacted my organization by delivering cost transparency, especially in the IT department.
What needs improvement?
I think there is still room for improvement because, in my opinion, the ITP, IT Planning interface is a bit clunky.
The BI reporting is not on par with competing BI software from other firms.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Apptio Costing for the past eight years; even in my previous organization, I was using Apptio Costing.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Apptio Costing is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good because it has handled my organization's growth well.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Apptio Costing is responsive and proactive.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use any different solution before Apptio Costing.
How was the initial setup?
I purchased Apptio Costing through the AWS Marketplace .
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment; we have acceleration of the planning processes, a controlled environment, automation that saves time and cost, and project accounting has been great and transparent.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licensing is very affordable and the cost is very effective.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Apptio Costing, I evaluated other options including IBM Cloudability , SAP Cloud ERP , and Microsoft Project Server .
What other advice do I have?
The advice I would give to others looking into using Apptio Costing is that it is an essential tool for all corporate planning processes for IT and allows for bottom-up planning. It is also very easy to use for non-IT programmers and has high flexibility.
Budgeting and a user-friendly interface are also important features. The in-app documentation is helpful, and usability from an end-user perspective depends very much on the reports designed by the TBMS.
I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Nancy Martin
Cost transparency has strengthened IT and finance collaboration and improves budget planning
Reviewed on Mar 27, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Apptio Costing is planning and cost transparency. I use it for the IT budget for both direct and chargeback, and leverage it for reporting and forecasting IT expenses.
A quick, specific example of how I use Apptio Costing for reporting or forecasting IT expenses is that cost transparency enables visibility to the business on what costs they are incurring.
This visibility is important for my business because it works really well for IT budgeting direct expenses, and cost transparency could provide better reporting with details for all expenses.
What is most valuable?
Some of the best features Apptio Costing offers are dashboards, insights, TBM, a data model, the ability to evaluate spend, forecasting capabilities, granular modeling, and report building.
Out of those features, I find myself using reporting and forecasting the most day-to-day because it allows for the company to understand the impact of project spend on the overall IT projects to show value.
I would add that budget forecasting reports, data ingestion, and time series data are also important features.
Apptio Costing has impacted my organization positively because everything with Apptio Costing has been positive, and one thing is that it is very easy to use.
What needs improvement?
I think Apptio Costing could be improved, particularly the user interface.
The UI should be more user-friendly and intuitive, as drilling down into budget line items in planning takes time and multiple clicks.
I think there is room for improvement in Apptio Costing with creating custom report views.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Apptio Costing for about nine years, even in my previous organization.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Apptio Costing is very stable, and I have not experienced any downtime or lagging.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would say Apptio Costing is scalable because it has handled my organization's growth efficiently.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is very responsive and helpful.
I would rate the customer support an eight out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used a different solution, and some of the alternatives were SAP Cloud ERP and Microsoft Project Server .
I switched from SAP Cloud ERP and Microsoft Project Server to Apptio Costing because planning is very versatile and works in many scenarios due to it being simple and easy to adapt.
What about the implementation team?
My company has a business relationship with the vendor as customers.
What was our ROI?
A specific outcome or metric resulting from using Apptio Costing is that it has enabled a great relationship between IT, finance, and the business units, giving the business units and the SSUs much better visibility into what their technology costs are, making decisions behind tech investments easier with the budgeting tool Apptio Costing provides.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Apptio Costing, I evaluated other options, including the ServiceNow platform.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Apptio Costing is that it is easy to do the recharge we require, which was completely manual before Apptio Costing. Budget creation was in Excel with many issues and bugs, but now it has been streamlined by Apptio Costing, saving a lot of time and reducing error. It is a great tool for IT budgeting and cost transparency, so it is a highly recommendable tool.
Since we started using this tool, we have good reports to see the variances, and the tool has been great because there has been a lot of positive impact on delivering cost transparency or a sub-ledger to our tech spend.
I think Apptio Costing is a great tool for cost optimization as budgets are clear and business units are aware of costs. I am giving this review a rating of nine out of ten.