Tool Enablement
Empowering your organization to realise the most value from tooling. We help you choose, configure, leverage, adopt and operationalize the right ITFM toolsets for your goals.
Why Effective Tooling Matters
Having effective control frameworks and tooling to manage spend is a core pillar of a mature, successful ITFM practice. Despite this, lots of organizations struggle with tool complexity, fragmented usage, inconsistent processes, or unclear roles.
To realize value from ITFM, your tooling needs to work in harmony with your governance, control and process frameworks, rather than trying to replace them. When considering undertaking an ITFM transformation journey, it is very important to recognize that the tool is not the solution.
Trying to leverage tooling to drive realization of outcomes will always fail. We have seen this with our customers time and again.
Enable your tool to support your strategy, not the other way around.
Our Tooling Services
It’s Value has extensive, proven experience in helping customers realize value from their tooling across all phases of the tooling lifecycle:
- We work with organizations during a tool selection process, providing expert input to feature evaluation
- We leverage our partner relationships with industry-leading tool providers to support the commercial tool acquisition process
- We provide consultancy services to existing tool owners on strategic adoption
- We provide tooling configuration services for industry-leading ITFM toolsets
- We design, implement and support customized tooling features (such as modelling and dashboarding) to support customer goals
- We provide tooling training, education and adoption services
- We provide technical advice, configuration and support services for tooling migrations
Our Expertise with Leading Platforms
IBM Apptio Costing, Planning and Billing
We are a trusted partner of IBM/Apptio and proud to be recognized as the EMEA Partner of the Year for four consecutive years.
This recognition reflects our deep experience implementing, optimizing, and embedding the IBM Apptio ITFM toolsets across dozens of organizations worldwide.
We help you unlock the full potential of IBM/Apptio by:
- Reinvigorating your existing models, allocation methods and reports
- Implementing Costing, Planning, Billing features from scratch to fully-adopted
- Driving optimization initiatives
- Undertaking performance enhancements
- Designing customised reporting capabilities
- Automating data ingestion demands
- Supporting monthly BAU cycle activities
Our proven approach accelerates time-to-value and ensures your investment delivers measurable impact.
Who We Support
Our Tool Enablenebt servuces benefit:
- CIO’s
- Technology leaders
- TBM Office
- IT Finance and Transformation teams
- Enterprise Architects
- Service Portfolio owners
- Business Partners
Wether you are starting with a tool or looking to mature your usage, we support every stage of your journey.
Why Choose It’s Value for Tool Enablement
- Proven success enabling IT Financial Management tooling
- Deep expertise as an IBM/Apptio partner
- Recognized as the EMEA Partner of the Year for four years in a row
- Strong combination of tooling skills and ITFM expertise
- Pragmatic and scalable configurations
- Clear focus on adoption, value, and maintainability
- A partner who can connect your business and technology consumers
We do not deliver tooling in isolation.
We make sure it works for your process, your people, and your strategy.