Case Study: IBM achieves $3.5B in productivity gains with Apptio TBM solutions

IBM saves $50M and cuts cloud waste 25% with Apptio

IBM, a global technology innovator, needed to transform its vast IT operations to drive productivity and align spending with business priorities. Facing challenges like opaque cloud costs, growing vendor spend, and a lack of visibility into the total cost of IT services, they turned to vendor Apptio for its Technology Business Management solutions, specifically adopting IBM Apptio Costing.

Using Apptio as a single source of truth for IT costs, IBM established transparency, formed a FinOps Center of Excellence using IBM Cloudability, and employed IBM Targetprocess for strategic portfolio management. The Apptio-powered transformation led to massive gains, including $3.5 billion in productivity, 90% average savings per application modernized to hybrid cloud, a reduction in SaaS spend growth from 12% to a 5% reduction, and $50 million saved by cutting cloud waste by 25%.

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