Apptio Adds Value to Innotas’ PPM Through TBM
Posted on Tue, Oct 04, 2011
San Francisco is hosting Oracle’s annual OpenWorld this week, and we can’t help but think about why this is such an important event. It’s not simply the infusion of cash into the local economy or the thousands of customers that will attend all the festivities. More importantly, it’s about the relevance and breadth of the partnerships that Oracle has formed over the years, which helped fuel the company’s growth.
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tly viewed a presentation by Apptio, the originators of Technology Business Management (TBM). Aside from the impressive introduction to TBM and why it is a critical technology, it was plain to see that Apptio too will benefit from choosing the right partners in the same ways as Oracle did.
Any technology that can affect positive results and maximize value by consolidating multiple data inputs for Information Technology (IT) is and always will be of great interest to any IT organization. Our industry is always looking for ways to optimize and create efficiencies within our supply chains. IT is no different. Instead of raw material, inventory, and manufactured goods, the supply chain for IT often consists of resources, applications, and both non-project and project work. As long as IT has been in existence, the challenge has always been to move from a cost center to a value center approach and philosophy.
Apptio has made a yeoman’s run at providing a solution that incorporates demand management, IT planning, IT and vendor performance, which ultimately leads to IT transparency impelling what we see as the true creation of the “value center”. A philosophy that Innotas shares with Apptio. So often in the past companies have missed this mark by either over engineering or not focusing on IT.
We see the Innotas PPM and APM solutions as ancillary to what’s being offered by Apptio and look ahead with enthusiasm to see which companies they will partner with in the IT space. Managing people, time, and money will always be at the forefront of any enterprise. Therefore any offering that consolidates multiple data points to give a clear and concise view of IT performance will endure.