6 Best Practices for Allocating IT Costs
6 Best Practices for Allocating IT Costs
14 PagesApptio.com 6 Best Practices for Allocating IT Costs Whitepaper Overview Cost allocation is an integral part of Technology Business Management (TBM), a category of software that brings the best practices of financial and performance management to the complex environment of IT. With TBM, IT leaders gain visibility into the fully-loaded cost and quality of IT services, communicate the value of IT to business leaders through a bill of IT, reduce cost without reducing quality, and align with business priorities through collaborative budgeting and planning processes. Expressing the fully-loaded cost of IT services, or expressing the cost burden placed on IT by various business units, inevitably leads to some decision-making around exactly how to assign the costs from one category or gro
