Today, Apptio, an IBM Company (NYSE: IBM), announced significant updates to its solution suite—including the launch of its Conversational Insights, currently in preview, and new capabilities for hybrid IT cost management and cloud optimization—designed to turn technology investment into measurable business outcomes and establish best practices for the financial governance for AI in a time of record infrastructure investments. The new capabilities are designed to specifically strengthen Apptio’s Financial Intelligence Layer that connects cost, consumption, value, and action across all spending and operational data within the enterprise.