Solutions for IT Financial Management (ITFM) and FinOps

CorPlan is pleased to offer our customers IT Financial Management (ITFM) solutions to optimise addressable IT spend and allow you to align your technology investments with clear business value.

Making the right technology investment decisions today is critical to building competitive advantage, fuelling innovation and driving ROI. However, dispersed, unreliable data and time-consuming, error prone processes can lead to bloated budgets, ineffective planning and missed opportunities. Organisations need simplified, integrated and automated solutions to help optimise IT spend, improve operations and drive greater financial returns.

Apptio intelligently structures vast amounts of technology-spend and enterprise-operational data to deliver actionable insights that business, finance and technology leaders can use to work better together. Apptio ingests, aggregates and normalises spend, cost, consumption, performance and attribute data from disparate systems, including cloud vendors. This complete, connected understanding of your technology spend and the value each dollar returns to your business allows you to confidently prioritise work, embrace the cloud and optimise your technology investments.

Benefits

  • Make cloud a competitive advantage
  • Allocate cloud and other IT costs, enable team ownership and reduce IT waste. Cut multicloud costs and accurately allocate 100% of cloud spend.
  • Unlock the value of tech investments
  • Cut unnecessary tech spend, accelerate forecasting cycles and adapt quickly in a challenging environment. Reduce app TCO by 25% and cut planning cycles by 75%.
  • Accelerate business agility everywhere
  • Dynamically manage work, resources and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to business strategy. Improve forecasting accuracy by 90%.

Our Solution: IBM Apptio Costing Essentials

IBM Apptio Costing Essentials is the ideal entry point for organisations looking to establish foundational cost transparency and gain control over their technology spend. This simple, easy-to-use costing framework leverages prescriptive allocations to quickly deliver visibility into costs and value across the organisation.

With automated features and machine learning, this solution provides a unified view of cost drivers, helping users realise value in under 30 days. Leaders can identify actionable insights by understanding technology spend and business value. Collaboration between technology leaders, finance, and business units optimises resource utilisation, cost visibility, alignment, and adaptability.

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    Our Solution: IBM Apptio Costing Standard

    IBM Apptio Costing Standard builds on the foundation set by IBM Apptio Costing Essentials, taking cost transparency and financial management to the next level. The customisable functionalities ingest data from virtually any source, enabling precise, consumption-based allocations. By providing a clear view of total cost of ownership, it helps organisations optimise spending and manage technology consumption. From application rationalisation to infrastructure analysis, it offers stakeholders a transparent view of the costs and value of their products and services, thereby facilitating informed decision-making and strategic investments.

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      Our Solution: IBM Apptio Planning

      Apptio Planning streamlines technology budgeting processes, enhancing accuracy and decision-making confidence through its collaborative workspace for cost budgeting and forecasting. Apptio Planning reduces the time spent on data aggregation and rationalisation, allowing for more time on technology spend analysis and optimisation. With data ingestion automation, streamlined variance analysis, and cost categorisation, organisations can continually refocus and replan, allowing quick reaction to changing market conditions.

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        10 Essential KPIs for the IT Strategic Planning Process

        When IT budgeting is viewed as a process to enable the strategic plan— and not an annual goal—it delivers a competitive advantage.  Essential KPIs in IT strategic planning help companies make informed budgeting decisions based on shared context and a system that empowers technology experts to set their own spending plans, but these plans need KPIs that show financial fundamentals, delivery, innovation, and agility to support the business strategy as proof points that IT is delivering business value.

        An efficient budgeting and forecasting process delivers the financial predictability your strategic plans rely on, but a streamlined budgeting process that adapts to changing business priorities fuels innovation.

        Read our guide to learn about:

        • The 10 essential KPIs for the strategic plan
        • The four main standardized metrics groups
        • The benefits of using KPIs for IT strategic planning and how they can help you:
          • Stop run costs from eating into your innovation agenda
          • Blend Agile methodology with metrics to measure success
          • Prevent analysis paralysis from changed business priorities
          • Eliminate the disconnect between IT strategy and execution
          • Shrink cloud variance to avoid surprises
          • Minimize budgeting cycle disruption

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