Apptio Billing delivers a defensible and predictable bill to business consumers that communicates IT costs in the language the business understands.

• Deliver defensible billing
• Demonstrate the value of IT in the language the business understands.
• Increase accountability
• Consistently show IT spend by business units, departments, and users.
• Drive choice and behavior change
• Offer service options that let consumers dictate IT demand.

Features

Automate monthly billing

• Deliver bills automatically via email for easy access.
• Leverage simple, business-friendly pro-forma invoice templates.
• Automate chargeback extracts for corporate financial systems.

Communicate with the business

• Show the value IT is delivering and increase transparency into what makes up the cost of IT.
• Extend IBM Apptio Costing for defensibility and justification of charges.
• Automate email delivery of your bill of IT.
• Communicate predictable and trustworthy IT allocations.

Drive consumption behavior

• Provide service options and let business consumers dictate demand.
• Choose subsidization strategies to drive adoption and sunset of services.
• Recover costs and perform true-ups for business relationship managers.
• Showback unit rate and consumption detail for applications and services.

Provide self-service allocation details

• Easily communicate IT spend by business unit, department, and user.
• Provide self-service allocation detail directly to business consumers.
• Increase predictability and minimize impact of financial true-ups for variances in plan.