Cloud Financial Management

Improve the economics of your cloud and AI investments

A Four-Step Framework to Manage Your Generative AI Investments

Advance Your FinOps Capabilities

Public cloud usage is now a key driver of business growth and a dominant component of enterprise technology spend, while AI initiatives introduce new consumption models and financial complexity. As technology budgets face increasing scrutiny, organizations are adopting cloud financial management and FinOps practices to better understand, allocate, govern, and optimize cloud and AI costs. These practices help scale accountability across teams and improve financial decision-making. With cloud cost management & optimization and cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) solutions, Apptio helps organizations maximize the value of their technology investments.

Typical customer outcomes with IBM Cloudability

30%

reduction in cloud unit costs

100%

allocation of multi-cloud program costs

90%

commitment coverage

FinOps: Financial Governance for Cloud

FinOps is a set of principles, processes, and tools that drive cross-functional collaboration so business leaders can make informed decisions that maximize cloud and AI value.

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Learn how to enhance business value from cloud spend with a deeper understanding of FinOps.

FinOps Certification

Cloud Financial Management Enables Organizations to...

Inform: hold teams financially accountable

Allocate 100% of cloud costs and integrate third-party data for a full TCO roll-up.

Optimize: improve product profitability

Track component costs against business outcomes and establish unit economic trends for key products to maximize the value of technology investments.

Operate: achieve cost efficiency at scale

Supercharge cost savings and reduce manual effort by pushing automated actionable rate and usage optimizations to engineers and FinOps experts.

Cloud Financial Management Solutions

FinOps for AI

Control, allocate, and optimize the costs of AI workloads

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Cloud Cost Management & Optimization

Optimize cloud resources for cost, speed, and quality

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Cloud Total Cost of Ownership

Bring financial accountability to the total cost of running cloud

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IBM Cloudability: A Best-in-Class FinOps Tool

We’ve got better insights into what is driving application and infrastructure costs than we’ve had before. That allows us to make better decisions.

Aaron Murray Senior Manager, Cloud Center of Excellence
Securian

FinOps: A New Approach to Cloud Financial Management

With the adoption of public cloud, procurement of IT has evolved from predictable upfront capital expenditure to variable consumption-based monthly bills. The result is engineers making daily spend decisions that affect a company’s bottom line at rapid speed while finance teams struggle to keep up with the pace and granularity of spending.

So, how can organizations keep pace and understand cloud costs? Enter FinOps!

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A cost-avoidance mindset combined with the need to modernize applications led NRECA to Cloudability.

Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% across the board
Reinvested the savings to provide additional services to millions of end customers without increasing the dues paid by NRECA’s  members