Cloud benchmarking service allows firms to compare IT costs to peers
November 5, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Antony Savas.
Apptio has unveiled a cloud-based system that allows enterprises to measure their IT costs and automatically compare them against industry peers. Apptio’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)system uses a combination of third-party benchmarking data from more than 3,000 organisations and its own anonymised customer service data.
Apptio’s new Cost Transparency solution automates the measurement of IT costs using the same categories and methods as its new IT Benchmarking solution, allowing customers to make direct annual or ongoing comparisons of costs against their industry peers…
The supplier’s offering relies on the Apptio TBM Unified Model, which is a blueprint for standardising IT categories and cost measurements based on hundreds of enterprise deployments…
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