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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Cost Management

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Cost Management tracks resource usage and manages costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and access rich operational and financial insights to make informed decisions.N/A

    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their cloud spend across all cost sources, all maturity levels, and for all stakeholders.N/A

    vRealize Operations (discontinued)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AvRealize Operations, or Aria Operations, provided simplified and automated IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, and visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. The product is no longer available for sale.N/A
    Pricing
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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 feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Cost ManagementIBM CloudabilityvRealize Operations (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Apptio Cloudability provides many additional features as compared to Azure Cost Management, like multi-cloud support more advanced recommendations through it advanced AI algorithms, Custom reporting and in-depth Dashboards about billing. It provides a unified platform for all …
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Some of the advantages include: Better decision making: Evaluating Reserved Instance (RI) or Savings Plan Utilization
    Detecting unexpected cost increases by drilling down into usage patterns and pinpointing the root cause (e.g., sudden EC2 scaling or S3 storage growth).
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Our organization chose IBM Cloudability because, in our experience, Overall, IBM Cloudability is a better product.
    Incentivized
    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:
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Cloudability is far easier to use when it comes to detailed cost analysis as well as setting up reports.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    the organization chose to use cloudability due to usability, costs, management and cost-benefit issues
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    When compared to other tools for multi-cloud cost management, Cloudability is more streamlined and customizable.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    We have only used native cost management tooling within the cloud provider's platforms.
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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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    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM CloudabilityvRealize Operations (discontinued)
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    8.8
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    8.8
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    In-Person Training
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    Configurability
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    Ease of integration
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Cost ManagementIBM CloudabilityvRealize Operations (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    A highly capable Azure Cloud platform and the best Cloud resource and cost management and data analytical capability are excellent. Azure Cost Management provides amazing capacity and performance analytics effectively and quite an easy tool Cloud efficiency optimization and its interface are very easy and friendly for the new users to get familiar with the tool easily.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I don't have much exposure to the tool. I mean, I'm relatively new to using it as a platform, but I haven't really seen the benefit, especially with the actual renewal talks at the company. I'm not seeing what AWS native solutions are, how probability improves on that as opposed to just using AWS and just, I don't know. I'm not seeing the benefit, at least in my eyes.
    Incentivized
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    With the introduction of API-based event alerts, there is no need for a proxy, which is a good option. Its ability to manage infra on a real-time basis is a good option that helps monitor, administer and troubleshoot virtual machines.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Accurate Cost Estimate
    • Detailed Uses Reports and Graphs
    • Quick Alert Notification
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • We are able to integrate multiple sources of data to have a comprehensive view of our spend.
    • We are able to get more detailed insights via container dashboard for kubernetes spend
    • A unified platform to manage overall cloud spend along with related FinOps spend
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    • Shows us where we can save on cost of keeping machines running, or boosting resources on VM's
    • the ability to plan deployments with scenario plans that can be customized over a specific timeline
    • reports that can be sent and shared with different teams or departments
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • It's not easy to track multiple Clouds' costs and resources to new users.
    • Advanced cost management settings require professional expertise.
    • May be complex to deploy Azure Cost Management via Cloud to new inexperienced users.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • 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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    • There are less space for customization.
    • Cannot use for OS monitoring.
    • Some option are very complex like getting an ideal VM report.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Cloudability has been one solution for almost all of our FinOps needs. Except for Data transfer costs, we have covered all use cases and have made significant savings across our cloud infrastructure. Reporting has provided management a deeper analysis into their spending and helped them forecast their budgets for next year
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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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    It has a good GUI to monitor real-time logs for cloud applications. This is quite a useful tool and preferred over most of the competitive applications in the market.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Discontinued Products
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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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    The support is pretty good however some of the KB articles still reference different versions of the product so it can be hard to find answers to common questions
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    I've only used this one.
    Incentivized
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    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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    SCOM was quite overwhelming when we first set up a POC for it. There was just too much for one person to handle. With vROPs I can manage the product and provide the support needed for my environment. We also have a Solarwinds environment that provides us with a level of detail and alerting we have come to rely upon. vROPS takes it to another level because it links directly into vCenter to provide you with a complete picture of your virtual environment.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
    Incentivized
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    Not involved in purchasing.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • The financial reporting.
    • Financial easy data analytics.
    • The migration of data is effective.
    Incentivized
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Apptio Cloudability has enabled us to charge back 100% of our cloud spend to our business users and on an automated basis through the use of ApptioOne
    • Apptio Cloudability's transparency and metrics have enabled us to save millions of dollars in cloud spend across our user base.
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    • We believe that the ability to preplan deployments with vRealize has proven its return on investments.
    • Our troubleshooting time has been reduced with vrealize because its constantly collecting performance data. typically vrealize will tell us cause of fault before we can determine it ourselves.
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    IBM Cloudability Screenshots

    Screenshot of ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNowScreenshot of an allocation of cloud viewed through the enterprise grade tools to tailor data for chargeback/showback across an organizationScreenshot of intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spendScreenshot of anomaly detection capabilities to stop issues in their tracks via the right people for the job