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Accelerate Outcomes with the Modern TBM on ServiceNow

Transform technology spend into measurable business value with Nicus and ServiceNow—the modern approach and platform for TBM.

Unlock the Full Potential of Your ServiceNow Investment

Today’s organizations face intense pressure to optimize technology spending while driving digital innovation. Having IT data and workflows siloed from financial insights complicates decision-making, reduces visibility, and prevents strategic alignment. Companies struggle to accurately translate technology costs into tangible business outcomes, resulting in inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

Nicus and ServiceNow combine to deliver the industry’s most powerful and modern Technology Business Management (TBM) solution. By capitalizing on ServiceNow’s workflows, data fabric, agentic AI-driven and underlying CMDB and CSDM, Nicus empowers businesses to transform their technology spend into clear, measurable outcomes.

What Is Technology Business Management (TBM)?

Technology business management (TBM) is a structured framework for aligning technology spend with business value. The TBM framework involves mapping IT costs to a standardized taxonomy for a clear picture of spending and how it translates into business outcomes.

By establishing this baseline of IT cost transparency, technology leaders can use TBM across the business operation lifecycle in areas such as:

  • Strategic planning to align IT investments with long-term business objectives
  • Demand and capacity management to balance available resources with IT needs
  • Financial planning to enable accurate budgeting and forecasting
  • Delivery management to ensure projects are delivered on-time and within budget
  • Value management to continuously assess and improve ROI from technology investments such as digital transformation, cloud migration and AI

Unified Platform, Amplified Outcomes

Unite your financial and operational IT data through ServiceNow’s robust workflow automation and integrated data fabric, simplifying management and boosting strategic agility. With the Nicus TBM on ServiceNow solution you:

  • Eliminate legacy TBM software and spreadsheets, consolidating TBM on ServiceNow
  • Free resources from operational tasks to drive strategic business initiatives
  • Deliver real-time visibility into technology spending
  • Accelerate data-driven decision-making

Precision to Propel Decision-Making

Ensure accuracy and transparency in financial insights and decision-making processes. The Nicus TBM on ServiceNow solution helps you:

  • Achieve precise, flexible cost modeling aligned directly with business goals
  • Leverage ServiceNow’s Agentic AI for proactive insights
  • Align technology investments clearly with business value
  • Quickly identify and address cost inefficiencies

Leverage Existing Investments for Strategic Advantage

Extend and enhance the value of your existing ServiceNow ecosystem without adding complexity. With Nicus TBM on ServiceNow you:

  • Harness the industry’s richest IT data model (CSDM/CMDB)
  • Utilize existing ServiceNow integrations, security, and compliance frameworks
  • Accelerate TBM adoption by leveraging current team skillsets
  • Reduce costs and complexity associated with new point solutions
  • Maximize your overall ServiceNow investment

Optimized for Real Business Impact

Move beyond traditional IT cost management by integrating operational intelligence with financial rigor. The Nicus TBM solution on ServiceNow enables you to:

  • Clearly demonstrate how IT spend drives enhanced profitability
  • Redirect operational savings towards strategic innovation
  • Improve customer experiences through optimized technology investments
  • Align IT financial management directly with strategic business objectives

How TBM on ServiceNow Delivers Value

Understand exactly how the Nicus TBM on ServiceNow platform translates into direct value for your organization:

  • Cost Optimization: Proactively identify cost savings opportunities to maximize budget effectiveness.
  • Effective IT Expense Management: Align IT spending strategically with business growth objectives.
  • Service Rates and Business Discipline: Establish clear service rates to run IT operations like a business.
  • Transparent Chargebacks: Allocate IT costs transparently to departments, units, or government agencies.
  • Rapid Responsiveness: Quickly respond to inquiries from business units regarding their IT spend.
  • Enhanced Planning Efficiency: Streamline and accelerate the IT planning process for better outcomes.

Future-Proof Your TBM Capabilities

Adapt swiftly to changing business needs using a platform designed for continuous evolution. With Nicus TBM on ServiceNow, you:

  • Ensure scalability through ServiceNow’s sophisticated integration architecture
  • Take advantage of new ServiceNow platform capabilities for TBM
  • Ensure long-term adaptability to future business and technology landscapes

Nicus TBM Products

Transform technology spend into measurable business value with Nicus and ServiceNow—the modern approach and platform for TBM.

Extend transparency to every intersection of IT and the business, reveal unseen opportunities to optimize spend and empower decision-makers with insights they can act on. (encompasses Cost Transparency and IT Planning products).

Establish accurate, fully-burdened cost structures for everything IT delivers – allowing technology leaders to eliminate doubt, rationalize spend, and expose opportunity.

Build detailed IT budgets and forecasts quickly and accurately. See how and why today’s funds are being spent, and how tomorrow’s investments can drive new value.

Link application costs to business value. FMDB for EA delivers financial context to EA decisions, helping rationalize apps, plan modernization, and prioritize investments.

Bring financial clarity to IT assets. FMDB for ITAM calculates asset TCO for hardware and enterprise assets—empowering ITAM teams to make informed asset lifecycle decisions.

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FAQs

What is Technology Business Management (TBM), and why is it important?

TBM is a framework that helps organizations align technology spending with business strategy. It enables leaders to make data-driven decisions by providing transparency into IT costs, value, and performance.

What teams or roles benefit most from using Nicus TBM on ServiceNow?

The solution is valuable for Finance, IT Finance, Enterprise Architecture, Service Management, Asset and Cloud Ops, and any business leader needing transparency into technology spend and outcomes.

Can Nicus TBM support cost chargebacks and showbacks to departments or agencies?

Yes, the solution supports both chargeback and showback models, allowing organizations to allocate IT costs transparently and fairly across internal business units or external stakeholders.

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