“ I think it ’ s really exciting to see how the GreenOps space can fold into TBM and FinOps as another area that becomes a new standard or framework ,” Ann says . “ There ’ s not really a gold standard right now but finding one is definitely the next phase , it really is an evolving space .”
Automation will play an increasingly important role too . “ Our customers have responded to that . I cannot tell you how many times we ’ ve been in a review with an executive and we ’ ll say , ‘ Hey , you ’ ve got a potential US $ 1m of savings ,’” Mallory reveals .
“ For any organisation , it ’ s important to start with your top ten cost savers , because they make up a significant portion of your unnecessary expenditures .
“ But many firms will have a long tail of small but accumulatively significant costs , which , to address manually will require significant man hours . Now , what Apptio can do is look at that tail and automate the cost reduction by ceasing those unnecessary operations .”
Greg sees similar patterns emerging in AI adoption : “ What we ’ ve seen with
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