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Apptio And ServiceNow Combine To Improve IT Management: Page 2 of 2

Two software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors focused on business needs have announced a partnership that will result in their products working together, allowing clients to use the results of one product as input for the other. The companies are Apptio, which provides products, such as software to develop cost models, for what it calls Technology Business Management, and ServiceNow, which delivers service desk functionality in a SaaS model. Combined, users will be able to take the kinds of informati
May 23, 2011

In addition, ServiceNow will be able to make more meaningful IT service portfolio decisions by leveraging Apptio's activity-based costing and IT planning engine, the companies said. The integration agreement does not change the pricing of the two companies' products, but is likely to include a go-to-market strategy that will see the products marketed jointly, as well as an integration strategy, says French.

However, the companies will continue to be a separate line item, with separate contracts and separate products, even if the companies are working together to cultivate opportunities, he says. The details of exactly how the partnership will progress will unfold over time, says Feaster.

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