Apptio, an IBM company, announced the public preview of IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI, a new set of capabilities developed to give technology and finance executives, AI governance teams and business leaders a single view of AI spending, including token costs, and its connection to measurable business results.
IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI centralizes AI initiatives and tracks metrics across revenue, cost, speed, productivity and risk, connecting AI investments to measurable business outcomes. IBM Cloudability provides visibility and attribution of token spend, while IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI connects that spend to business outcomes, helping enterprises measure the business value of each AI initiative.
“AI is facing a cost crisis, and organizations are under growing pressure to demonstrate business value,” said Bill Lobig, vice president, IBM Apptio. “With Apptio, clients can address waste — with one client seeing a 50% reduction in costs, allowing them to unlock funding for new AI initiatives that accelerate innovation.”
Key capabilities of IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI include:
- Proof Metrics and Results: IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI connects each AI initiative to one or more business outcomes and customer-selected proof metrics, such as cycle time, cost avoided, conversion rate or incident volume. Baseline, target, actual and realized results can be tracked over time to show whether value is being realized and what action may be needed.
- Flexible Framework: Customers can use multiple inventory and metric sources to support a range of AI initiatives.
- Integration with IBM Apptio AI TCO & Usage and IBM Cloudability: Users can incorporate modeled AI cost and consumption inputs from IBM Cloudability and IBM Apptio AI TCO & Usage—including technology, token spend, usage, labor and other cost inputs—to understand and optimize both the cost and business value of AI initiatives.
By connecting AI initiatives to business outcomes and the end-to-end technology and labor investments required to deliver them, IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI helps leaders determine whether AI investments are producing measurable value.
IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI is currently available in Public Preview for all IBM Apptio Costing Standard or IBM Apptio AI TCO & Usage customers and will be generally available in Q3 of 2026.
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