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Release2026-08-06

IBM's Apptio unit announced on Aug. 6, 2026 that IBM Apptio AI Value & ROI has entered public preview after a pilot with selected customers. The tool links 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, and tracks results across revenue, cost, speed, productivity and risk over time. It is available in public preview to existing IBM Apptio Costing Standard and IBM Apptio AI TCO & Usage customers, with general availability planned later in the quarter, according to Bill Lobig, vice president of IBM Apptio. The launch lands amid scrutiny of AI budgets: Uber burned through its full 2026 AI coding budget in four months, and CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said on Aug. 5 that costs were falling after prompt caching, model setting changes and per-hour cost visibility for engineers.

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