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IT organizations are challenged today more than ever to provide strategic value to the business, to justify and quantify that value, and to implement transformative IT initiatives that can help the business make real progress in trimming costs and being more agile and innovative. Technology Business Management (TBM) is the practical, applied discipline of maximizing the value of IT services. Many organizations tell us that they would like to undertake a TBM initiative but are reluctant to start, for a number of reasons. This paper discusses the top five, separates myth from reality, and hopefully serves as a guide as you move forward with this fundamental and profound shift in running IT.

Using Apptio's Technology Business Management solution, IT managers can quickly upload their desktop cost data including hardware depreciation, OS fees, application and management software licenses, provisioning costs, support and break/fix labor expenses to drive a fully-loaded cost of providing desktop services to the business. These costs can be compared across the organization, against virtualization strategies or against industry benchmarks to help identify opportunities for cutting cost and improving efficiencies.

DIRECTV CIO Mike Benson’s talk focuses on his experience of working with DIRECTV’s CEO, CFO and business line leaders through a formal, metrics-driven governance process to get the most from DIRECTV’s technology investment. Benson discusses his approach it IT planning through strategy, blueprints and IT architecture investments. He also shares DIRECTV’s unique approach to innovation through failure.

To get the right quality for the best possible price, Apptio helps you balance your cost and quality based on the needs of your business partners.

Unlike spreadsheets, Apptio IT Planning provides an enterprise scale solution for gathering input from your business partners and departments, provide near-instantaneous aggregation of budget and demand amounts, and streamline the planning process.

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