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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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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The Seven Essentials of a Modern Email Security Platform

Did you know that any organization, regardless of size and the number of in-house security personnel employed, can now automatically prevent, detect and respond to all types of sophisticated phishing techniques in real-time. Now imagine how much time, money and resources it could save your company and how much burden might be alleviated from your Security and IT teams?

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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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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

View Now

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

View Now

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.

View Now

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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Overcome the challenges of protecting data that is here, there and everywhere

When it comes to cloud environments, whether in the public cloud or a privately hosted or hybrid environment, data security and protection controls must protect sensitive data—and support constantly growing government and industry compliance requirements. Read this ebook to learn how data security and protection technologies should operate in multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid) at the same time.

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Agile Integration Architecture eBook

Agile Integration Architecture: The Handbook for all of your lightweight integration needs. In this book you will learn:

  • The impact of digital transformation on integration.
  • Exploring agile integration architecture in detail.
  • Moving forward with an agile integration architecture.

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11 Step Guide to Purchasing a Digital Asset Management System

When you’ve decided you need a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, you’re faced with the prospect of comparing multiple systems until you find the right solution for the right price. This may seem like a daunting task, but it shouldn’t be. We'll help you through the process in 11 easy steps.

What you'll learn from this ebook:

  • What features do I really need?
  • What technical questions do I need to ask?
  • What does a good demo look like?
  • How do I build a strong business case for investment?

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Overcome the challenges of protecting data that is here, there and everywhere

When it comes to cloud environments, whether in the public cloud or a privately hosted or hybrid environment, data security and protection controls must protect sensitive data—and support constantly growing government and industry compliance requirements. Read this ebook to learn how data security and protection technologies should operate in multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid) at the same time.

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