Apptio Cloudability vs. Morpheus

Apptio Cloudability is well suited for cloud usage and reserved instance amortization reporting. The tool provides user friendly reporting of usage by organization, category, and account. It's also easy to filter data a variety of fields such as date, organization, and cost type. I would like to see more predictive forecasting capabilities within the tool. Overall, Apptio Cloudability is a great way to analyze cloud usage within your organization

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Morpheus is well suited for those who want to have a management pane of glass that will allow you to see what you are consuming and how you are consuming it. It also ties into many other types of software and the development team seems to be constantly improving the product. That lends it to being a bit complicated. If you want something easy to set up, this isn't your product.

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• Financial reporting - canned reports along with easy drag and drop creation/modification tools.
• Optimization report - show specific areas where resources can be re-allocated to less expensive ones (lower cost CPU/storage/network/etc.)
• Governance reporting - lists out resources that have incomplete/missing tags on resources. This includes having application ID, environment type (Prod, Dev, Test), project code, etc.

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• Copious native 3rd party integrations.
• Ties into multiple public and private clouds for single management plane.
• True multi-tenancy.

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• 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.

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• More dashboard/visualization capabilities

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usability is good

It took us a while to get started (a few months), mostly because of security- and access-related issues. Once we got the connectivity up and running, it was relatively straightforward. Navigation is fine, once you get used to the menu structure. We found some of the selections and menus a bit inflexible.

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We have always been able to reach the support organization at Morpheus on the rare event we needed them. They have been nothing but helpful.

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Compared to some of the other data reporting and visualation tools, Apptio Cloudability stacks up well. It is a very niche product but can be extended to do some cloud management and reporting fairly easily. For example getting emails based on a lack of asset tagging, right sizing suggestions based on resource usage. Some other tools like cloud custodian do offer a more developer friendly tool by allowing people to create policys through code but are not as feature rich as Apptio Cloudability.

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We previously were using VRA. VRA, while some of the new versions look interesting is hard for both administration as well as end user consumption.

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• We have seen some substantial cost reductions as a direct result of rightsizing/utilzation suggestions. An estimated 18% per month
• Greater visibility of allocation of spend, highlights areas to concentrate on for potential reductions, or justification
• Positive engagement with service owners from other departments so they are now able to have insights of their spend, this was not possible before without manual reports being generated form Azure portal

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• Excellent monitoring tool

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