LONDON, Oct. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Apptio, Inc.,
a leading provider of technology business management (TBM)
solutions that help organizations analyze, plan, and optimize
technology spend, announced Cheshire East Council's deployment of
Apptio Cost Transparency, giving the organization full visibility
into IT costs to make data-based decisions. This marks the
company's first public sector deal in the U.K.
First U.K. Public Sector Deal for Apptio, Cheshire East Council
Deploys Apptio Cost Transparency
Cheshire East Council implemented Apptio Cost Transparency in
its shared services department, which provides IT services to
Cheshire West and Chester Council, providing a clear view and full
control over its annual IT spend. In doing so, it aims to bring
accountability and transparency to the process of delivering value
and services to more than a million residents across Cheshire.
The shared services department at Cheshire East Council provides
robust services to residents in the county, while also managing
demanding technology and infrastructure requirements for two
councils. This leads to a high level of complexity when it comes to
overseeing and forecasting IT costs to ensure public money is being
spent effectively.
"Governmental organizations are at a unique nexus where they
need to be accountable to both citizens and governing bodies.
Particularly in today's climate as we're faced with disruption, the
ability to clearly communicate spend as well as accurately forecast
and manage future change in an agile manner is critical," said
Henrik Nilsson, vice president of
EMEA, Apptio. "We are working with Cheshire East Council and
its shared services department to ensure that they have the right
information and tools to make informed, intelligent decisions on IT
spending."
Value of Apptio Cost Transparency for Governmental
Organizations
Apptio Cost Transparency gives users a single pane of glass
through which they can quickly and clearly see all of their
technology costs, categorize them and align them with the services
and value they deliver. In addition, the solution enables
organizations to do the following:
- Build an industry-approved fully burdened and justifiable cost
model for government services, allowing organizations to improve
trust and transparency.
- Create a comprehensive consumption view so leaders can weigh a
service's business value against cost and make informed decisions
on whether to retain, consolidate, terminate or migrate the
services.
- Allocate governmental contracts, depreciating assets and labor
components to the services they support, providing a clear
understanding of the lifecycle state of their service.
- Provide a single dashboard that allows users to access and
analyze costs on a self-serve basis without the need to consolidate
various spreadsheets.
Deployment of Cost Transparency
Cheshire East Council's deployment of Apptio Cost Transparency
allows the two councils to pay for the services they use and enable
the shared services department to make IT spending more efficient
by identifying addressable and non-addressable spend.
With Apptio Cost Transparency, Cheshire East Council is able to
determine the true cost of projects. This is the first time
Cheshire East Council is able to account for fully burdened costs
as well as the depreciation and amortization of the cost of
services. Similarly, Cost Transparency provides a detailed view of
the applications and platforms that support key business and
end-user services, giving the organization a high-level of
transparency and enabling them to more accurately allocate costs
between the two councils based on consumption data.
"Technology sits at the heart of how we carry out our public
service duties to our residents, so we're thrilled to be working
with Apptio to bring further transparency to our IT costs," said
Gareth Pawlett, chief information
officer, Cheshire East Council. "We have been working towards
attaining fully-burdened cost transparency of our IT services for
quite some time. By implementing Apptio Cost Transparency, we were
able to achieve this almost immediately. This solution has given us
crucial insights around our technology and service consumption and
spend that will be invaluable to our planning and budgeting
cycles."
Numerous public bodies across the globe, including the European
Commission and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, among
others use Apptio to ensure they deliver powerful, cost-effective
services to the public, which is more important now than ever.
About Apptio
Apptio's products empower business leaders to drive optimal
financial performance across their organizations. More than 60
percent of Fortune 100 enterprises trust Apptio to manage spend
across the entire IT portfolio and beyond, so that they can focus
on delivering innovation. Apptio automatically ingests and
intelligently structures vast amounts of enterprise and
technology-specific spend and operational data and enables users
across disciplines to report, analyze, plan, and govern their
investments collaboratively, efficiently, and with confidence. For
more information, please visit www.apptio.com.
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