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Stay ahead in TBM and IT financial management with expert insights from Nicus. Explore best practices, industry trends, and strategies to optimize IT spend and align tech investments with business strategy.
FinOps Is Expanding—And It’s Coming for TBM

Why Modern TBM Must Evolve to Embrace the Convergence of Two Powerful Disciplines For much of the past decade, Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps have lived in parallel worlds. TBM served enterprise IT leaders and finance teams as a structured framework for understanding, managing, and optimizing the full spectrum of technology investments. FinOps emerged from the cloud era—a more tactical, bottom-up approach to controlling the explosive growth of infrastructure-as-a-service costs. They weren’t in competition. They were two sides of [...]

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ITFMA ’19 New Orleans: Post-Conference Highlight Roundup

New Orleans never disappoints and neither did last week’s ITFMA event! The Financial World of Information Technology Conference was loaded with fresh insights, actionable […]

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4 Steps to a Healthier IT Financial Management Practice Beyond Spreadsheets

Excel holds a special place in the hearts of IT finance professionals – it’s comfortable, familiar, and has a refined set of core capabilities. But […]

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Nicus Presents CHIP Donation Supporting Healthcare Access

The 2019 Financial World of Information Technology Conference presented by the ITFMA is just around the corner. But before you land in New Orleans, there […]

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Full Support of TBM and Bill of IT Variance Reporting Among Top Highlights in Nicus 5.12

We are very excited to introduce Nicus 5.12, a meaningful update to the Nicus platform and suite of ITFM products. As we discussed in the release webinar, […]

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City of Seattle Gains 3,000 Hours Annually with Nicus

Like many other State and Local Government entities, the City of Seattle’s Central IT division was managing the IT planning process (including budgets, forecasts, […]

How to Do More With Your IT Finance Data

Today’s high performing companies know data is king. However, all too often with big data comes big headaches. Forward thinking companies recognize the tremendous […]

Nicus Appoints New CEO John Clark to Lead the ITFM Charge

In last week’s Nicus News and published press release, Nicus announced John Clark as the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. John brings more than […]

4 Ways Corporate Planning Tools Prevent Best-in-Class IT Budgeting and Forecasting

IT organizations at high performing companies are backed by world-class IT budgeting and forecasting processes. The financial teams behind these processes achieve tremendous budgeting […]

How AmFam Reduced TCO Analysis from Weeks to an Hour

In 2015, American Family Insurance (AmFam) launched a strategic initiative partnering Corporate Finance and Information Services divisions to improve IT intelligence and deliver better […]