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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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.
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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.
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems so that the user can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling teams to:
- Fully allocate cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business.
- Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments.
- Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives.
- Allocate shared costs, specialized technology and labor along with vendors to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud.
Apptio Cloudability Features
- Supported: Visibility: Translates billing and usage data into a unified view to contextualize costs and govern cloud consumption.
- Supported: Cost Optimization: Matches spend to needs, displays reservations and commitment based discounts, and identifies candidates for purchase and modification.
- Supported: Efficiency: Continuously improves the unit economics of cloud with a shared understanding of costs and business value.
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(155)Attribute Ratings
- 8.2Likelihood to Renew3 ratings
- 6.4Availability1 rating
- 5.5Performance1 rating
- 8.1Usability78 ratings
- 8.2Support Rating1 rating
- 7.3Online Training1 rating
- 1In-Person Training1 rating
- 6.4Configurability1 rating
- 6.4Product Scalability1 rating
- 7.3Ease of integration1 rating
- 7.3Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 7.3Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 7.3Professional Services1 rating
- 6.4Contract Terms and Pricing Model1 rating
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(1-17 of 17)Apptio Cloudability Review
- 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.
- For me, it is a lot of anomaly detection and I think there's a lot of improvement that can be made to show anomalies that happen over time because if it's just day to day or week to week, you may not see the change. But if you see the trend over a period of time, show me something that has grown 40%, 50% over the past three months and maybe you can do those things and we just haven't figured them out yet. So we are very new to the product, but I think anomaly detection for me is one of the bigger things.
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- Accurate spend numbers
- Reliable spend anomaly detection
- Clear usage and rightsizing recommendations
- Automating updates to Business mappings
- User management; having separate systems to manage user access and permissions is burdensome
Apptio Cloudability provides value to IT
- ease of set up
- ease of building reports
- quick calculation time
- ability to drive business mappings and views based on tables rather than scripts
- IBM cloud spend
- track rightsizing actions take
- carbon impact of recommendations
- multi-cloud usage
- aggregation and segregation of usage across multi-cloud
- anomly detection
- feature parity across govcloud versions of cldy
- meet higher compliance requirements (FedRAMP High, IL4 IL5)
Review of Apptio Cloudability
- Budget management
- Reducing Cloud costs
- Forecasting
- Cost allocation
- Support for Other cloud provides apart from AWS, GCP and Azure
- More granular insights into spending for each department by tagging
- Advanced anomaly detection with AI
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- New Apptio BI reporting seems promising
- Showcasing untagged costs
- First step towards rightsizing and optimization explorations
- Anomaly detection
- Combined reporting views from the data sources
- Showcasing the dependencies with the recommendations
- Ability to effective allocate shared costs
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- multi dashboard capability
- Tagging alignment native in tool vs. CSP changes
- Reservation "automation"
- solid/credible rightsiging/optimizations
- price point
- reporting templates
Apptio Cloudability
- Cost Data
- Anomaly Detection
- Reporting
Good clarity from Cloudability for Cloud
- Easy to use UI
- Customisation based on business dimension
- Good reporting capacity that can be scheduled
- TrueCost Explorer and RIghtsizing Explorer provides great overview
- Anamolly detection will be more useful if it can leverage business dimensions
- ASG recommendation are generally too aggressive, will be good to give option to choose the performance metric teams are willing to change and display the chosen metric
- Chart visualisation can be improved, for example, using a consistent colour for a Product or Service Name, and have value labels to differentiate value for different section of the chart
Cloudability is good but could have been better.
- Cost reporting
- AWS Rightsizing recommendations
- True cost explorer
- Azure rightsizing and RI recommendations
- Utilization reporting
- Anomaly detection
Apptio Cloudability - Valuable features for the right use cases, but limitations apply
- Single source of truth for cost and usage reporting across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure & GCP).
- Significantly leverage Business Dimensions & Business Metrics to respectively create custom mappings & custom equations that are inputs into many of our financial reporting processes.
- Apptio Cloudability API leveraged to expose cost data to PowerBI for operational reporting alongside other business data (Salesforce).
- End users are granted access to their Views based on data they need to see & are enabled with dashboards and reports to track and manage their own spend.
- FinOps power users leverage RI, SP and CUD purchasing modules to help make purchase decisions.
- In-month forecast estimation (not perfect feature, but good enough for directional updates).
- Business Mappings API
- Granular Reporting
- Relatively easy to configure with IaaS vendors
- Cost Reallocation - Not offered for Multi-Tenant, Cost Sharing is a Beta feature that is very limited in function & not able to reallocate rules
- Resource Inventory - big gap vs. what CloudHealth offers, beta feature is good but it can't save/subscribe to reports
- Anomaly detection - feature highlights trivial cost rises & consistently misses the real anomalies
Apptio Cloudability is not a fit for multi-tenant reallocation/telemetry cost. As we expand into these type of architectures, it would be the top reason we evaluate other tools.
Great Cloud Cost Visibility tool
- Dashboard creation
- Reports
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Latency issues while running reports
- Add features to get Stopped instances list
- Need cloudwatch related features to optimize the usage
Positive feedback
- Cost visibility
- Optimization recommendations
- Anomaly detection
- On-prem cost reporting
- SaaS reporting
- Oracle Cloud support
Apptio Cloudability Saves
- Charts and Graphs
- Ad hoc reporting
- Billing
- Aligning budgets to actuals
- Sit side by side w CT
Apptio Cloudability Aces Cloud Management
- Easy installation
- Valuable out-of-the-box reporting.
- Simple, integrated security.
- Have only set up Azure so looking forward to seeing how difficult it will be to integrate other cloud service providers.
- Changing historical tag data when things change through "Business Dimensions"
- Amortizing one-time costs over a period of time, such as reservation purchases
- Creating visuals is intuitive
- TrueCost Explorer feature is responsive and very easy to use
- Sharing filtered data through reports, dashboards, and visuals is easy
- Responsive technical support and customer teams
- Slow to implement larger Apptio functionality due to Cloudability not being a native Apptio application
- While improvements have been made, feature parity across major clouds is still not there
- For Azure, Rightsizing functionality has not been updated to take advantage of new memory metric monitoring
- Challenging to share reports & visuals with those not registered to use Cloudability
- Reports are very generic; basically just glorified tables
- Cannot customize visuals (colors, text size, etc)
- While I appreciate the "no-configuration required" nature of Anomaly Detection, it can generate a lot of false positives
- User management is very generic and not integrated with Apptio platform very well
- Enriching tags with additional data sources
- Allowing for multi-year analysis
- Analysis of achieved savings through various discount programs
- It's slower than AWS Cost Explorer
- The conditional filters require too many clicks to use
- I don't trust the resource utilization data on the cost widgets. When I've looked at it, which has been sparingly, the data makes no sense for our environment.