Benchmark data sources
Benchmarking blends external datasets with your own information.
Industry IT economics data
Source type:
Source type:
- Market and research providers that collect IT spend and staffing data across many organizations.
- IT spend as percentage of revenue
- IT spend per employee
- IT FTE (full-time equivalent) ratios and similar macro indicators
- Based on full fiscal year submissions
- Normalized to standard industry sectors and size bands
- Typically refreshed on an annual or periodic cycle, not monthly
IT OpEx benchmarks from the Apptio community
Source type:
- Anonymized and aggregated customer data, on an opt-in basis.
Used for:
- Distribution of IT OpEx across Cost Pools
- Distribution of IT OpEx across Resource Towers
- Archetype profiles that identify common spend patterns
- Input data aligned to TBM Cost Pools and Resource Towers
- Individual contributors are anonymized
- Metrics are only exposed above minimum sample thresholds
Infrastructure cost and efficiency benchmarks
Source type:
- Infrastructure benchmarking programs and large-scale infra studies.
Used for:
- Unit cost metrics such as cost per server or cost per TB
- Efficiency metrics such as FTE per 100 servers
- Based on detailed cost and volume submissions by Resource Tower and Resource Sub-Tower
- Uses standard infra tower definitions that align with TBM
- Often includes multiple years for trend and stability checking
Your own data
Your side of the equation includes:
Your side of the equation includes:
- Organizational profile
- Annual Revenue
- Annual Operating Expense
- Average Annual Headcount
- IT cost data
- Annual Spend broken down by:
- Operating Expense
- Depreciation Expense
- Capital Expense
- Annual Operating Expense by Cost Pool
- Annual Operating Expense by Resource Tower
- Volume and capacity data by Resource Sub-Tower
- Device counts, TBs, ports, FTE counts, and similar