Melbourne consultancy partners with Apptio to tackle ‘financial transparency’

Consulting firm Elabor8 will combine its services with insights from Apptio's agile planning platform Targetprocess to help enterprises gain better visibility and control of digital transformation technology investments.

Apptio Targetprocess templates are designed to help customers move from project-based funding to product-based funding and adopt the latest SAFe 6.0 framework while using  Apptio Targetprocess’s budgeting and financial management capabilities.  

The pitch is that this will increase business outcome predictability, forecasting accuracy and time to market. 

“Australian companies have major digital ambitions, but are feeling the financial crunch in delivering transformation strategies, and often find themselves struggling to pivot as business requirements evolve,” Elabor8's chief executive Paul Velonis said.

“Elabor8’s mission is to design adaptable and resilient high-performance systems and drive developmental cultures for customers by bringing together the many stakeholders in their businesses, and ensuring digital strategies deliver value faster.

"Adding Apptio to this mix validates each element of digital transformation to better understand and govern spend.”

Elabor8 and Apptio are targeting opportunities across government, financial services, telecommunications and higher education, among other industries.

The partnership also aims to assist existing customers of both companies which are currently executing digital transformation strategies.

“While it’s impossible to control the economy and market, uniting business stakeholders with technology and finance is integral to creating visibility around every dollar spent, and establishing an agile framework to ensure digital transformation strategies deliver value,” Apptio's APAC channel chief Marie Nalty said.

“We view this partnership with Elabor8 as an opportunity to enable Australian enterprises to overcome the financial and operational obstacles that inhibit their ability to see value, and build resilient, transparent and product-based investment strategies.”