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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Cost Management

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Cost Management tracks resource usage and manages costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and access rich operational and financial insights to make informed decisions.N/A

    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud.N/A
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    Azure Cost ManagementIBM Cloudability
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM Cloudability
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM Cloudability
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Apptio Cloudability provides many additional features as compared to Azure Cost Management, like multi-cloud support more advanced recommendations through it advanced AI algorithms, Custom reporting and in-depth Dashboards about billing. It provides a unified platform for all …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    IBM Cloudability stands out in the cloud cost management landscape due to its comprehensive features, strong multi-cloud support, and alignment with FinOps practices. Here's how it compares to other leading tools:
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Every cfm tool has its pros & cons. However, i feel cldy is getting more matured and evolved post ibm acquisition with turbnomics coming in to the game.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Cloudability is far easier to use when it comes to detailed cost analysis as well as setting up reports.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    the organization chose to use cloudability due to usability, costs, management and cost-benefit issues
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    When compared to other tools for multi-cloud cost management, Cloudability is more streamlined and customizable.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    We have only used native cost management tooling within the cloud provider's platforms.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (110 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    A highly capable Azure Cloud platform and the best Cloud resource and cost management and data analytical capability are excellent. Azure Cost Management provides amazing capacity and performance analytics effectively and quite an easy tool Cloud efficiency optimization and its interface are very easy and friendly for the new users to get familiar with the tool easily.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Accurate Cost Estimate
    • Detailed Uses Reports and Graphs
    • Quick Alert Notification
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • It's not easy to track multiple Clouds' costs and resources to new users.
    • Advanced cost management settings require professional expertise.
    • May be complex to deploy Azure Cost Management via Cloud to new inexperienced users.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • There is currently no ability to apply global filters over the data in cloudability. Rather users must go through a difficult process to create custom views which they are later able to apply over top of their datasets.
    • Drill functionality does not really exists but appears to be more of an after though add-on. Yes you are able to "drill" but the visuals disappear and even the ability to export the more detailed information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We decided to build our own home-grown FinOps tool, but the results of the proof of concept were very promising.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I gave the IBM Cloudability a 7/10 because it is good, but it could improve in some places. It is easy to get data uploaded and ready to view, but it is only up to a certain point in time, and not live data. As for how it looks, the interface is good for viewing, however navigation could be a little better, maybe supported with a roadmap.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    I've only used this one.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Before Apptio we extensively used the cloud native and in house automated and developed cost optimization tool using python , powershell and leveraging the various cloud native services like AWS systems manager , Azure Functions and Azure automation run books.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • The financial reporting.
    • Financial easy data analytics.
    • The migration of data is effective.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Positive - as our utilization of Cloud platforms has increased, getting better reporting has been a key objective and Cloudability has allowed us to achieve this.
    • Positive - has allowed us to find opportunities for Cloud savings and improve our utilization of Cloud resources.
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