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Apptio accelerates growth across APAC with top banks as customers role with this ,” said Gerard Florian , Group Executive Technology at ANZ Bank . “ We use the data that Apptio ’ s solutions provide to create insights that allow us to have more strategic conversations with the business about both cost and value .”

The company ’ s footprint in the APAC region includes Japan , Australia , New Zealand , India , Singapore , Thailand , Malaysia , Indonesia and the Philippines .

Apptio , a leading provider of technology business management ( TBM ) solutions that help organizations analyze , plan and optimize technology spend , has seen strong momentum across the Asia-Pacific region . This has seen the addition of 46 new customers , an expanded footprint across nine countries and strategic new hires .

The company is now serving several top banks in Australia and Southeast Asia which are leveraging Apptio ’ s solutions to strengthen visibility into their technology spending .
“ When it comes to driving business change , we need good data – and Apptio plays a key
Apptio has made its IT Financial Management Foundation ( ITFMF ) solutions available in Japanese and plans to release additional capabilities in the local language over the coming months .
The company says increased adoption of cloud services and the move toward agile and DevOps methodologies has created the need for a new IT operating model , making TBM the framework for the future .

NTT supports financial data company with digitalized data center services in Hong Kong

NTT , a world-leading global technology services provider , is providing digitalized services to support its data center clients in Hong Kong , including an international financial data company to overcome constraints caused by COVID-19 .

With global guidelines preventing the client from accessing its data center , NTT supported it with a full suite of infrastructure management services to enable it to remotely manage its ICT assets via an online portal .
Launched last year , the digitalized services allow clients of NTT ’ s data centers in Hong Kong to sign up for services such as SmartHand , Remote Hand and Cross Connect , to remotely manage their ICT assets and delegate IT management and maintenance tasks to NTT . online platform anytime , anywhere . NTT ’ s data center operators are readily available to provide on-site services to manage clients ’ ICT equipment .
As physical access to the data center was restricted during the pandemic , a digitalized process and full suite managed services allow the financial data company to continue managing its ICT infrastructure in NTT ’ s Hong Kong data center . The online portal has also enabled the client to monitor real time data center performance and usage , including tracking of service request status , credit balance and billing information .
The streamlined ordering process allows clients to sign up for these services via the
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