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    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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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    IBM Cloudability
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    When we purchased they were close but we preferred some bits like forecasts
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    - Comprehensive cloud cost analytics- Effective cloud optimization tools- Strong multi-cloud management capabilities
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    Apptio Cloudability (pre-IBM acquisition), CloudHealth by VMware, AWS Cost Explorer, and Azure Cost Management. Each has its strengths, but Cloudability stood out for its multi-cloud coverage, commitment discount optimization, and finance-friendly reporting capabilities.
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    Recently, I got an opportunity to review this tool in the India Apptio User Conference. Currently, I'm going through the use cases of this tool and checking if this helps us in any of the use cases. also, I've heard from the speaker that IBM Kubecost will be integrated in the …
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    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:
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    For a single project and quick analysis about why my costs when overboard or why forecast is showing more than my budget, it is much easier to use AWS Cost Explorer over IBM Cloudability. I think this area should definitely improve and do some smart suggestions using AI …
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    I believe that one complements the other, and it was great that Apptio brought them together on the same front.
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    We tried a few different tools as part of a POC but the fact that there is the IBM name attached to Apptio and just the complexity of our enterprise systems was something that we felt was best served by the IBM Cloudability tool. It integrated seamlessly with the multiple cloud …
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    IBM Cloudability does better on a lot of aspects. Still there are certain features that are exclusive to each product.
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    Apptio is better for forcasting and multi cloud
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    IBM Leadership is clear on the requirements and market demands, and they continue to improve. I have seen work happening at lightning speed based on the requirement.
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    Cloudabilty was implemented before I joined the organization, so apart from the Azure costings blade, I have no experience of alternatives.
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    Cloudability provides consolidated account views that I cannot see in AWS directly
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    I like IBM Cloudability compared to IBM SPSS Statistics because I think SPSS is a bit outdated. In my opinion, IBM Cloudability is more modern and helps present data better than SPSS could. Compared to Microsoft 365, I would say they are about even. One thing I like about Micros…
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    We were already using ApptioOne
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    super
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    Better features across more cloud providers. Faster reporting. However, Cloudability lacks some of the resource reporting we enjoy from CloudCheckr.
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    All use the tool
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    Power BI is a powerful tool for visualization. Apptio does a great job at managing the data from the cloud spend, but Power BI can create much better and more complex visualizations
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    significantly better in all regards
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (110 ratings)
    Availability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    Support Rating
    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
    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
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Return on Investment
    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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