Apptio's SaaS offering has a few options and an annual subscription fee price model. Unfortunately, actual pricing won't be disclosed until the service is more widely rolled out over the next few months. 数据挖掘研究院
In the meantime, Apptio's management insists the announcement is not premature. According to CEO Sunny Gupta (formerly of iConclude and Opsware), companies that have deployed the Apptio software include Finlay Enterprises, HomeStreet Bank, and Motricity. These are already seeing results, he says. 数据挖掘研究院
"Apptio's solutions gives us complete visibility into IT service costs, the ability to track actuals versus budget on a monthly basis, and will play a key role in helping me manage the business of our IT organization from here on out," said Jim Giantomenico, SVP and CIO at Finlay Fine Jewelry, in a prepared statement.
Apptio's service takes input on IT costs from a range of corporate sources, including manual entry, data within specified systems and servers (including Accounting's general ledger), or a small virtual appliance for data centers that Apptio will offer as part of the service. The data is pumped into common templates -- Apptio says it should take just a couple of hours to set things up. Cost, utilization, and operational metrics are then crunched, and a selection of views produced: IT pros can ask for an overall IT view, with specified resources broken out, or a line of business view, itemizing costs associated with specific parts of an organization. 数据挖掘实验室
If things pan out as planned, Apptio's service may prove especially helpful to storage managers. "Regarding storage, you could track costs associated with the type of device, its location, or capacity," says Gupta.
This kind of information could be extremely useful in planning storage costs, but managers will need to have the right input. Any storage data tracked in a spreadsheet, SRM tool, or asset management system could be included. Sadly, storage usage has often been
