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Apptio is a Bellevue, Wash.-based company founded in 2007 that develops technology business management software as a service applications. In 2009, the company was the first investment for Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Apptio enterprise apps are designed to enable the assessment of IT service costs and communicate those costs to corporate leaders for planning, budgeting and forecasting purposes. The tools are designed to help CIOs run the technology departments as a business, tracking hardware, storage, cloud usage, applications, energy usage, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and reporting obligations. The company has approximately 250 customers, including small companies as well as corporations such as Bank of America, Metlife, Cisco, Microsoft, Starbucks, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Target, Xerox, Coca-Cola and DirecTV.〔 In March 2014, Apptio opened offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and announced Australian mining company Orica and two Australian federal government departments as customers. ==Executives and funding== Apptio has approximately 550 employees.〔 In November 2013, Apptio hired the former head of investor relations at Amazon.com, Sean Boyle, as its CFO.〔 At that time, Ted Kummert, formerly an executive with Microsoft’s corporate-software group, was hired as Apptio’s executive vice president of engineering and cloud operations, and Microsoft’s former CFO, Peter Klein was added to Apptio’s board.〔 The moves were viewed as an indication that Apptio was heading toward an initial public offering.〔 CEO Gupta was formerly a partner executive with Opsware, which venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007.〔〔 When announcing that Apptio would be Andreessen Horowitz’s first investment, investor Ben Horowitz said, “Apptio has everything we like to see in investments—a big market with a significant problem.”〔 In addition to Andreessen Horowitz’s investment, Apptio has raised a total of $136 million from Greylock Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Janus Capital and T. Rowe Price.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apptio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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