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    CloudZero

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACloudZero is a cost tool that pulls in both billing and resource data from across an AWS account, then runs it through a data normalization and machine learning engine to automatically group costs and surface insights. Instead of spending time building dashboards and setting budget thresholds, CloudZero automatically sorts data and correlates cost with the activity that caused it, letting users know how costs are trending.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
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    CloudZeroIBM Cloudability
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    CloudZeroIBM Cloudability
    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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    Community Pulse
    CloudZeroIBM Cloudability
    Considered Both Products
    CloudZero
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Apptio Cloudability is more end user friendly than CloudZero. Specifically regarding organizing the cloud spend. CloudZero is designed more for someone who has more technical experience than a typical finance analyst has. Whereas Cloudability is more user friendly and …
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Apptio Cloudability is by far faster and can handle much larger datasets than its competitors, CloudZero and CloudHealth by VMware.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloudability
    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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    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).
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    Recently, I got an opportunity to review this tool in the India Apptio User Conference. Currently, I'm going through the use cases of this tool and checking if this helps us in any of the use cases. also, I've heard from the speaker that IBM Kubecost will be integrated in the …
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    Chose IBM Cloudability
    We tried a few different tools as part of a POC but the fact that there is the IBM name attached to Apptio and just the complexity of our enterprise systems was something that we felt was best served by the IBM Cloudability tool. It integrated seamlessly with the multiple cloud …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    CloudZeroIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (147 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
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    7.8
    (147 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
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    6.4
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    Performance
    10.0
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    5.5
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    2.3
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    In-Person Training
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    Online Training
    10.0
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    7.3
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
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    9.0
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    Configurability
    10.0
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    6.4
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
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    6.4
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    Ease of integration
    10.0
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    7.3
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    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    6.4
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    Professional Services
    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    CloudZeroIBM Cloudability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CloudZero
    For a Global Supply Chain SaaS Organization we are able to track the Cloud Resource Unit Economics through CloudZero. Multiple Dashboards, Weekly Reports for identify the Cloud Cost breakup, tracking Cost Anomalies, Identify resource wastage, Multicloud cost spend visibility, AKS, Container, AI Costs visbility and Optimization insights, Proactive alerts on cost spikes,
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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.
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    Pros
    CloudZero
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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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    Cons
    CloudZero
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    CloudZero
    CloudZero is a Excellent Cloud Cost Management Solution for a Enterprise level Supply Chain Management SaaS Organization
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    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
    CloudZero
    Excellent MultiCloud Cost Management Solution for Global SaaS Companies to track their Multicloud Spend and complete cloud cost visibility for each product line. Supports AWS,Azure, GCP, Snowflake Cloud Platforms. Proactive Cost alerts, AI integration for cost optimization opportunities
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    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
    CloudZero
    Platform is stable and available most of the time
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Performance
    CloudZero
    CloudZero SaaS Platform is really good and performance is great.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    Support Rating
    CloudZero
    Getting great support from CloudZero Support Team.
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    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
    CloudZero
    Online Trainings was really good to understand the product features and explain about Cloud Finops concepts
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    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
    CloudZero
    Easy to Integrate and OnBoard the CloudZero Solution in couple of weeks.
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Alternatives Considered
    CloudZero
    Turbonomic is still an onpremise solution. Lacks integration capabilities. CloudZero offers Multicloud Cost management solution through their SaaS platform and the integration is simple for most of the Hyperscaler Platforms. No training is required for deployment and to manage and operate CloudZero platform. Great support from thier customer management team by conducting weekly Meetings with customer.
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    CloudZero
    Billing frequency
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Scalability
    CloudZero
    CloudZero is really scalable to handle Multicloud cost and huge cloud billing information
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    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Return on Investment
    CloudZero
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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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    ScreenShots

    CloudZero Screenshots

    Screenshot of Uses event-driven platform and machine learning to automatically organize costs (without perfect tags), detect, anomalies, and more.Screenshot of Cost Anomaly Alerts let customers know immediately as soon as spend ticks, not just when they’ve hit a budget, to deal with issues in the moment.Screenshot of CloudZero lets companies organize costs into products and features without spreadsheets or relying on perfect tagging.Screenshot of CloudZero lets engineers investigate the source of any cost down to resource level or correlate it with the deployment that caused it. Ingests AWS metadata, CloudTrail, CloudWatch for additional engineering context.Screenshot of Get weekly updates on cost anomalies and changes.

    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