Comments on: Briefing: Apptio - How Much is the IT Costing Me? (The SaaS Edition) http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/07/16/briefing-apptio-how-much-is-the-it-costing-me-the-saas-edition/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: links for 2008-07-19 - Adventures in Data Center Automation http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/07/16/briefing-apptio-how-much-is-the-it-costing-me-the-saas-edition/#comment-201671 links for 2008-07-19 - Adventures in Data Center Automation Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:34:20 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/07/16/briefing-apptio-how-much-is-the-it-costing-me-the-saas-edition/#comment-201671 [...] Apptio - How Much is the IT Costing Me? (The SaaS Edition) [...] [...] Apptio - How Much is the IT Costing Me? (The SaaS Edition) [...]

]]> By: Doug McClure http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/07/16/briefing-apptio-how-much-is-the-it-costing-me-the-saas-edition/#comment-200852 Doug McClure Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:34:21 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/07/16/briefing-apptio-how-much-is-the-it-costing-me-the-saas-edition/#comment-200852 Re: “lower level” of BSM I actually place this to the far right "Value" side of my BSM Maturity Model. This is like the holy grail for the bean counters. We implemented this (w/o any formal product) down to the rack, row, etc. in the datacenter and ultimately could assess the costs per service, server, etc. This is really just another type of "BI" problem with different data. For more insight into some other products in this space, check out the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (ITUAM). I'd be shocked that the core technology is much different, just one is a stand alone product and one a hosted version. Doug Re: “lower level” of BSM

I actually place this to the far right “Value” side of my BSM Maturity Model. This is like the holy grail for the bean counters. We implemented this (w/o any formal product) down to the rack, row, etc. in the datacenter and ultimately could assess the costs per service, server, etc. This is really just another type of “BI” problem with different data.

For more insight into some other products in this space, check out the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (ITUAM). I’d be shocked that the core technology is much different, just one is a stand alone product and one a hosted version.

Doug

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