Overview of the Benchmarking application

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IBM Apptio Benchmarking is a SaaS application that places your actual costs side-by-side with trusted peer benchmarks. It does not require use of Costing, but is strongly recommended to leverage the integration features and Benchmark-enabled reports.

At a high level:
  • Primary purpose
    Enable apples-to-apples peer comparisons while leveraging the TBM taxonomy so you can evaluate cost levels, cost structure, and efficiency.
  • Core scope today
    • Infrastructure cost and efficiency metrics at Resource Tower and Sub-Tower levels
    • IT operating expense (OpEx) metrics mapped to Cost Pools and Towers
    • Industry spend and labor metrics at an enterprise level
  • How it works with Costing (if integrated)
    • Enabled features in IBM Apptio Benchmarking:
      • Costing provides actuals modeled into Cost Pools, Resource Towers, Resource Sub-Towers, and related dimensions
      • Benchmarking aligns that model to external benchmark datasets
      • Reports and dashboards then show your actuals versus peer metrics, with drill-through back to Costing for line-item analysis
    • Enabled features in IBM Apptio Costing:
      • A set of benchmark-enabled reports included in Costing that compare your actuals with selected benchmark profiles so that you can provide insight into benchmark differences and drill down to accounts and transactions.