TBM Data Mapping,
Automated with AI
Map IT spend to TBM Towers and Cost Poolsautomatically. Stop spending days manually aligning cost centres, vendor invoices, and asset data to the TBM Taxonomy in Apptio or ServiceNow.
Works with Apptio, ServiceNow, and custom CSV exports
What is Technology Business Management (TBM)?
Technology Business Management (TBM) is a framework and taxonomy that gives IT, Finance, and Business Unit leaders a common language for IT costs. It works like GAAP for technology spending — a standardized way to categorize, report, and benchmark IT investment.
The TBM taxonomy organizes IT resources into Towers and Cost Pools (infrastructure, applications, Software, Staffing.) and maps costs from general ledger entries to those towers. This gives leadership visibility into where technology spend is going and how it connects to business value.
The problem: the raw data — vendor invoices, cost centre exports, asset lists — never arrives pre-mapped. Someone has to manually connect "AWS-EC2-UsEast1-T3Medium" to the right TBM tower. Mapping Clarity automates that.
How Mapping Clarity handles the TBM taxonomy
Upload your IT spend data and Mapping Clarity maps each row to the correct TBM tower — with confidence scores and AI reasoning on every line.
Example: IT spend → TBM tower mapping
| Raw Description | TBM Tower | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| AWS EC2 us-east-1 monthly | Compute — Servers | 97% |
| Salesforce Enterprise Lic Q2 | Application — Licensing | 99% |
| Cisco Meraki MX68 firewall | Network — WAN | 94% |
| Cognizant SOW - ERP support | Application — Support & Operations | 81% |
| Dell PowerEdge R750 server | Compute — Servers | 96% |
Built for TBM practitioners
Everything you need to get raw IT data into a clean, TBM-aligned format.
CSV & Excel Upload
Upload your GL export, asset inventory, or vendor invoice list directly. No reformatting required.
Custom TBM Taxonomies
Use the standard TBM taxonomy, either v4 or v5 or configure your organization's custom tower hierarchy. Any structure works.
Learns Your Rules
Every correction you make is captured as a rule. The AI gets better each cycle, so recurring vendor names map perfectly.
Full Audit Trail
Every classification decision is logged with the AI's reasoning. Show your work to auditors and finance stakeholders.
API for Automation
Integrate directly into your monthly TBM reporting cycle. Submit data programmatically via REST API, get mapped results back.
Team Collaboration
Invite finance, IT, and operations team members. Role-based access keeps data isolated while everyone works from the same mappings.
Stop manually mapping IT costs to TBM towers
Upload your first GL or asset export in under 2 minutes. 1,000 free credits included.
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