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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

    VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ATanzu CloudHealth (formerly VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth) simplifies financial management, streamlines operations, and improves organizational collaboration across your multi-cloud environment.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 feeNo setup fee
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    IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    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:
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    Cloudability provides consolidated account views that I cannot see in AWS directly
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    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.
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    Apptio Cloudability better in every way than CloudHealth by VMware except asset inventory and CloudHealth Policies. Cloudability is definitely much more user friendly because it is easy to create your own dashboards.
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    Apptio Cloudability is by far faster and can handle much larger datasets than its competitors, CloudZero and CloudHealth by VMware.
    Incentivized
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    Apples to Sausages - no comparison - hands down Apptio Cloudability wins that argument
    Incentivized
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    I have used CloudHealth, CloudCheckr (since acquired by Spot) and Pileus (now Anodot) are prior companies.

    CloudHealth is really the only tool that compares well with Apptio Cloudability. CloudCheckr has a very clunky UI and is totally absent of Business Mapping features. Anodot
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    We found that Apptio Cloudability fit our use cases from reporting to dashboards from the visibility point of view. We really liked the Views functionality which made it easy to customize different business and account segments. We selected this because our users were familiar …
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    Cloudability has excellent reporting capabilities
    Turbonomic has an excellent recommendation engine that allows you to take action from the portal and even set policy and automation of tasks
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    We were already using Cloudability and at the time it was cheaper.
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    We thought that Apptio Cloudability was more complete than the others that we compared to. The out of box Cloud reporting was significantly better than CloudHealth and ServiceNow, in addition to the completeness of the reporting. The optimization engine also is far superior to …
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    Please see previous comments
    Incentivized
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    Our organization looked at CloudHealth by VMware, but I was not involved in the evaluation.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera and CloudHealth both seem to offer more in terms of optimization recommendations. CloudZero has the promise of correlating engineering events to cost outcomes, which is a really powerful capability for engineers. I would rank Cloudability in the same class as Flexera …
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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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    IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
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    Rackspace Fabric
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Turbonomic
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
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    8.2
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    Usability
    8.0
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    Availability
    6.4
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    Performance
    5.5
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    Support Rating
    8.2
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    In-Person Training
    1.0
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    Online Training
    7.3
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
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    Configurability
    6.4
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
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    Ease of integration
    7.3
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    Product Scalability
    6.4
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    Professional Services
    7.3
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    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    ScreenShots

    VMware Tanzu CloudHealth Screenshots

    Screenshot of Filter and refine out-of-the-box graphical and tabular reports to correlate datasets for analysis against your business objectives. Create custom dashboards across clouds and easily build detailed reports from scratch, known as CloudHealth FlexReports, across various dimensions to perform more granular analysis on cost, usage, and asset data.Screenshot of Configure budgets to visualize your expected costs for the year in advance and compare it with actual spend as the year progresses. Create as many overall and categorized budgets as you need to run your business, aligned to your company’s fiscal year. Proactively alert stakeholders when costs are forecasted to exceed pre-defined budgets. Toggle on forecasting for reports to predict future values based on historical data for the interval you define.Screenshot of Use CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to drive consistent operations and continuously monitor your environment. Quickly identify opportunities to proactively reduce spend, remediate risks, and streamline configuration. Get alerted when conditions deviate from your desired state and enable automated actions to execute changes in your environment—stop, start, resize, or terminate infrastructure—all at the frequency you define.Screenshot of Align cloud data to your business with CloudHealth FlexOrgs and benefit from greater control over user access, sharing, and delegation across multiple levels of organizational hierarchy. Further fine tune the platform by dynamically allocating assets to business groups known as CloudHealth Perspectives. View and analyze your cloud environment by project, application, line of business, cost center, and more, to drive accountability for cost and usage.