IBM Cloudability Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

We, as a MSP, use IBM Cloudability to monitor the cloud contracts of our client's environments

Aligned with FinOps methodology

IBM Cloudability is used for checking the consumption of AWS Cloud services for different cloud account. From business point of view the main problem we are dealing with is to optimize the Cloud Account infrastructure.

Short time frame for analytics, which affects long-term forecasting and workload fit analysis

In My Organization, we leverage IBM Cloudability's various dimensions and granular data to get the curated reports to the business stakeholders and app-owners. we leverage the TBM studio to create the dataset which we have processed internally and the same cost numbers are used to create the org-level Apptio BI based Report which is used by all the app owners to get the costing chargeback related details for the given dimension, application for a given period of time. we also leverage CLDY Apptio BIs visualization capabilities to give the insightful reports to the CIO and higher Management related stakeholders on a monthly/quarterly basis.

IBM Cloudability is well suited for below scenarios: 1. An organization which has a requirement of creating the curated reports for the stakeholders with granularity as low as hourly. 2. An organization which wants to have an alternate Savings Plan/commitment related recommendations which can be referred and trusted rather than blindly trusting the cloud native cloud savings plan/commitment recommendations. 3.creating Apptio BI based visualization for the business stakeholders to get quick insights. According to me as per the current features of Cloudability, scenarios where Cloudability might be less appropriate: 1. An organization which is looking for a tool to automate the Cost sharing/chargeback related process. 2. An organization which is looking for a quick unit economics parameter to understand how they're doing. 3. Rating score for different clouds on the parameters like how the customers is doing in terms of the savings potential and savings relalized, which can be shown to management as a proof of success of FinOps Team/scope for more savings.

We use IBM Cloudability for our AWS Cloud Spend data. We are leveraging the application on a daily basis by now establishing an IT-FinOps Team within the organization. Something that we are trying to accomplish is standardize a single view across all domains of technology.

We would like to come up with more proactive cost approaches instead of reactive approaches. For us to be able to push proactive work we need better forecasting capabilities and more insights related to our data

we are using budgeting, anamoly, insights and container report

The current reporting setup is well-suited for tagging, account-wise reports, cost center analysis, and financial views. However, additional features and enhancements could be explored, such as improved optimization capabilities (rightsizing, idle IPs/images/resources), advanced drill-down analysis, and self-service reporting. Improving Coin Dashboard and adding more customizable features would also be beneficial

It provides a clear breakdown of cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM Cloud and also Easy to see which projects, teams, or services are driving costs and automated recommendations for rightsizing instances, shutting down unused resources and optimizing storage. You can track your cost on cloud it helps us to reduce cost and you can integrate with GitHub pull request and you can track of each package and it support multi cloud as well.

Clear dashboards easy to maintain and to share with the users Accurate advice for resources optimization Very good customer support (clear help center documentation, fast & good technical support at case creation) Ease of building reports.

We use IBM Cloudability for our FinOps practice.
It helps us to identify our main cloud cost drivers and also in the cost allocation process, making so easy and transparent to the product owners cloud costs.
IBM Cloudability also provides us so valuable and precise information on how to optimise our cloud spend, giving insights on many different areas.

IBM Cloudability will help you to have a clear view on your cloud costs, main cost drivers, etc. Also will make you easy to allocate these costs to the right product owner or business unit.
It will also help you to identify the cost savings opportunities and also will propose you the best option.

We use IBM Cloudability to analyze and reduce our cloud spend. It allows us to look at a single view for multi cloud data. It helps identify areas that can be rightsized and provides the detailed information required to take action.

Providing savings plan recommendations and reserved instance recommendations. The ability to create multiple views and assign to users allows for easy access to product specific reporting. IBM Cloudablility also provides great insight to saving generated by the team over time. We are able to provide management with detailed reports that highlight the benefit of the tool.

As head of the FinOps practice, I leverage IBM Cloudability on a daily basis for reporting, trending, optimization actions, and sharing the reporting with the organization. IBM Cloudability being able to provide a combined dashboard view across all three could vendors is a big advantage of the tool vs. having to stitch together various reports from the three cloud vendors, most of which are in different formats and taxonomies.

Large organizations across multiple vendors is a good fit. Smaller companies on single clouds, is a costly tool compared to native tools.

One stop shop for all our customer cloud spend of all three major cloud services. Run reports, utilize the custom graphs and dashboards.

Beautiful and customizable dashboards/ not as user friendly to a new user to navigate