Apptio’s SaaS solutions will integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power BI to provide insights and applications for IT business management.
Apptio partners with Microsoft to provide End-to-End visibility, optimization, and facilitate decision making with the Microsoft Cloud
Apptio, Inc., a leading provider of Technology Business Management (TBM) SaaS applications, announces a partnership with Microsoft. The purpose is to deploy its decision-making platform for financial management on Microsoft Cloud and thus support companies in their migration process and in optimizing workloads.
“The adoption of the cloud, and the wide variety of services and consumption patterns present, have given businesses the flexibility to keep pace with the new demands of the digital economy. However, even that flexibility can generate cost surprises, ”he said Ralph Loura, SVP and CIO of Lumentum. “The collaboration between Microsoft and Apptio will help the management of companies to use Microsoft’s cloud services.”
In the company, any function, including finance, human resources, supply chain and marketing, has a management application that allows you to optimize processes and have useful insights. Delivering the next generation of data-first applications for CIOs is a top priority for both Apptio and Microsoft. Through this collaboration, Apptio will offer customers a modern application for IT business management. This allows customers migrating to the Microsoft cloud to rely on data to make real-time decisions. In this way, users can optimize their investments and provide effective insights.
All the power of Dynamics 365 at the service of companies
Apptio will use the full power of Dynamics 365 to integrate human capital management (HCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other sources of financial and operational data into its market-leading cost and planning engine. Apptio will also allow the automatic extraction of data transformed by Power BI to perform customizable analyzes, obtain insights, reports and develop applications.
“Microsoft offers several cloud services for businesses, from Office 365 to Azure to Dynamics. And it is one of the most strategic partners for CIOs, CFOs and CDOs. We are excited about this collaboration and the ability to integrate our business management applications to help customers manage, plan and optimize their technology investments and accelerate their migration to Microsoft Cloud platforms, “he said. Sunny Gupta, CEO of Apptio.
The collaboration includes further support from Apptio for Microsoft Cloud platforms:
- providing even deeper financial information and insights to study the Azure migration process;
- driving application infrastructure and total cost of ownership (TCO), optimization and decision making;
- optimizing investments on platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365;
- constructing economic aspects by function and unit of product to allow the formulation of the P&L for the new digital development;
- creating insight-first applications for IT by integrating with Dynamics Financials, HR and project data, and exporting the data to the Microsoft Power BI platform;
- by running the SaaS Cloudability solution on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Apptio available on the Microsoft Azure marketplace
The initial go-to-market strategy aims to provide Microsoft Azure customers with Apptio Cloudability. The latter is an industry-leading cost management and optimization solution for public cloud environments. This includes smart analytics, utilization and cost management software for enterprise SaaS applications. Apptio’s solutions will use Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 to help customers in their decision making.
“Customers are accelerating the implementation of cloud-based services and solutions to achieve greater efficiency, reduce costs, engage customers in new user experiences and facilitate data-driven decision making,” he said. Casey McGee, Vice Presidente, Global ISV Partners, Microsoft.
Apptio will be available through the Microsoft Azure marketplace. Both companies will collaborate in joint marketing and sales actions.