Mastering the Fundamentals of AWS Cost Efficiency

Are you spending too much on AWS?

The costs of running your AWS infrastructure can add up quickly if left unchecked. Without the right strategy, companies can wind up leaving a lot of savings on the table. Having worked with with some of the biggest AWS spenders in the world, Apptio Cloudability has identified notable trends in the way successful companies monitor, manage and mitigate their AWS costs.

This e-book will teach you:

  • The basics of AWS cost visibility
  • How to optimize usage efficiency
  • How to develop a Reserved Instance purchasing strategy
  • How to build a cycle and culture of continuous cloud cost management

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7 Killers of CIO Credibility

How do leading CIOs get acknowledged as a trusted adviser to the business? They avoid the top 7 credibility killers.

CIOs that define their relevance with uptime stats and SLAs lack credibility with their C-suite peers. Justifying your presence with operational metrics identifies you as the face of just another cost center—with no value-add to a business conversation.

Seats in the C-suite belong to leaders who measure their impact on the bottom line—if CIOs don’t quantify their value in language non-techies understand, they won’t be invited to the table.

Download this eBook to learn the 7 killers of CIO credibility and what you can do to avoid them.

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TBM for the​ New IT Operating Model

Today’s digital enterprises can no longer rely on yesterday’s traditional IT-centric operating model, which emphasized IT services over business capabilities. The new paradigm embraces cloud and Agile, continuous delivery, and greater efficiency. IT must become a strategic partner to the business, with technology investments that support key business objectives and spur innovation.

Technology Business Management delivers on those requirements. Developed and utilized by hundreds of CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs of Fortune 500 companies, it’s a proven data-driven discipline that defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Download the eBook to learn:

  • How your IT operating model needs to evolve
  • The key attributes your digital enterprise needs in a new model
  • How Apptio’s TBM solutions empower you to manage the business of IT and fund innovation

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Create a thriving team culture with years of service awards: A guide for leaders

It’s that simple. Of all the experiences a person has at work, interactions with leaders have a disproportionate impact on how someone feels about their job, for better or worse. Peak experiences at work—those emotional highs that help people bond with the organization— are created by savvy leaders who know how to encourage, mentor, and motivate others.

Strong leaders know how to shape positive experiences that connect employees to purpose, accomplishment, and one another.

But such leadership skills need to be learned. Not every employee who is promoted to a management position has the experience or know-how to motivate and inspire people through great employee experiences. Leaders must be taught specific skills to move from being producers of great work themselves to influencing the great work of others instead. Employee recognition, including the skillful presentation of years of service awards, is an easy way for leaders to create memorable experiences that inspire greatness.

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Your Essential Guide to Building a Recognition Program

Workplace cultures that help people thrive begin with employee recognition. When done right, recognition improves the quantity and quality of peak experiences at work— experiences that help people reach higher, accomplish more, and want to stay. Use this guide as a framework for creating an employee recognition program that connects people to purpose, accomplishment, and one another.

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5 revolutionary ways to improve your workplace culture

A great culture attracts people to your organization—both customers and employees. It helps employees thrive. It empowers them to do great work. It creates a place of innovation and collaboration. A positive culture connects employees to purpose, accomplishment, and one another.

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SaaS Buyer’s Guide

Finding the right cloud data management solution for your business can be difficult due to the number of potential vendors and seemingly similar offerings. Without digging deeper to uncover the details, you run the risk of selecting a solution that can result in exorbitant hidden fees, unmet service level agreements (SLAs) or vendor lock in.

There are two layers to choosing a cloud data management solution. The first is choosing the right cloud with the right pricing structure. The second is a cloud provider with enterprise support ready for multi cloud deployments and artificial intelligence (AI).

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IBM Integrated Analytics System: Do Data Science Faster

In the last few years we have seen a rapid evolution of data. The need to embrace the growing volume, velocity and variety of data from new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) has been accelerated. The ability to explore, store, and manage your data and therefore drive new levels of analytics and decision-making can make the difference between being an industry leader and being left behind by the competition. The solution you choose must be able to:

  • Harness exponential data growth as well as semi-structured and unstructured data.
  • Aggregate disparate data across your organization,whether on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Support the analytics needs of your data scientists, line of business owners and developers.
  • Minimize difficulties in developing and deploying even the most advanced analytics workloads.
  • Provide the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud option but be housed in your data center for optimal security and compliance.

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IBM Db2: The AI Database

Today’s businesses run on data and the leaders that drive them must embrace forward-looking data science and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to retain competitive differentiation. They must also reliably support increasingly complex business operations without downtime. Supporting these disparate needs once required a myriad of data platforms, but that is no longer the case.

With version 11.5, IBM Db2® is extending its legacy of dependability by adding AI functionality designed to help optimize performance and support data scientists’ mission to find deeper insights. It is both powered by and built for AI

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8 Ways to Modernize your Data Management

Effectively using and managing information is critical to pursuing new business opportunities, attracting and retaining customers, and streamlining operations. However, these needs create an array of workload challenges and increase demands on underlying IT infrastructure and database systems that are often not up to the task.

The question is, how will you solve for these challenges? Will you allocate more staff to keep up with patches, add-ons and continual tuning required by existing systems, or simply ignore the potential insights that lie in this wealth of new data? Many businesses are facing this challenge head-on by seeking out new solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) as well as multiple capabilities and deployment options from on-premises, public and private clouds to innovate their data infrastructure and business.

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The ultimate cheatsheet for executing rolling IT Forecasts

What are the 12 most important questions to answer to develop a rolling forecast strategy? Find out. Download the Rolling IT Forecasts cheat sheet to learn:

  • 5 reasons rolling forecasts fail
  • 5 steps to establish a rolling forecast cadence
  • How to accurately forecast future IT spend in minutes

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How to fund innovation using money you already have

CIOs are under constant pressure to deliver innovation and efficiency, and at a lower cost to boot. Fortunately, when it comes to enterprise IT spend, chances are the necessary resources to drive improvements are already there, hidden in budget padding. All you need are the right tools to identify and exploit them.

Download this brief to:

  • Understand your budget-to-actual variances and what causes them
  • Learn how to course-correct towards freeing up fettered funds for growing your business

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Apptio TBM Unified Model (ATUM): The standard cost model for IT

Ready to communicate IT cost and value in terms your business unit partners understand?

The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business.

Use this poster as a resource to:

  • Establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs
  • Confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices
  • Understand 10 essential metrics you should track to communicate the business value of IT

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How to prepare for your cloud migration

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

  • Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
  • Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
  • Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
  • Calculate migration costs
  • Define success metrics

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Showback & Chargeback: Optimize Technology Costs by Shaping Demand

This eBook outlines how organizations can leverage showback and chargeback to impact IT costs—to improve awareness and accountability, and to shape demand and consumption.

Follow the guiding principles outlined in this eBook so you can:

  • Eliminate labor-intensive manual billing
  • Get rid of high-level, indefensible IT allocations
  • Put an end to the notion that IT is free
  • Reduce frustration by business leaders about their IT costs

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