IBM Cloudability vs. VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloudability
Score 8.8 out of 10
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IBM Cloudability 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.N/A
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Tanzu CloudHealth (formerly VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth) simplifies financial management, streamlines operations, and improves organizational collaboration across your multi-cloud environment.N/A
Pricing
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Considered Both Products
IBM Cloudability
Chose IBM Cloudability
Apptio Cloudability better in every way than CloudHealth by VMware except asset inventory and CloudHealth Policies. Cloudability is definitely much more user friendly because it is easy to create your own dashboards.
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:
Chose IBM Cloudability
Cloudability provides consolidated account views that I cannot see in AWS directly
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.
Chose IBM Cloudability
Cloudability has excellent reporting capabilities
Turbonomic has an excellent recommendation engine that allows you to take action from the portal and even set policy and automation of tasks
Chose IBM Cloudability
Apples to Sausages - no comparison - hands down Apptio Cloudability wins that argument
Chose IBM Cloudability
I have used CloudHealth, CloudCheckr (since acquired by Spot) and Pileus (now Anodot) are prior companies.

CloudHealth is really the only tool that compares well with Apptio Cloudability. CloudCheckr has a very clunky UI and is totally absent of Business Mapping features. Anodot
Chose IBM Cloudability
We found that Apptio Cloudability fit our use cases from reporting to dashboards from the visibility point of view. We really liked the Views functionality which made it easy to customize different business and account segments. We selected this because our users were familiar …
Chose IBM Cloudability
We were already using Cloudability and at the time it was cheaper.
Chose IBM Cloudability
We thought that Apptio Cloudability was more complete than the others that we compared to. The out of box Cloud reporting was significantly better than CloudHealth and ServiceNow, in addition to the completeness of the reporting. The optimization engine also is far superior to …
Chose IBM Cloudability
Please see previous comments
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 …
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

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User Ratings
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(135 ratings)
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Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(5 ratings)
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Usability
8.0
(135 ratings)
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Availability
6.4
(1 ratings)
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Performance
5.5
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
2.3
(3 ratings)
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In-Person Training
1.0
(1 ratings)
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Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Configurability
6.4
(1 ratings)
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.4
(1 ratings)
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Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
6.4
(1 ratings)
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Professional Services
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Likelihood to Recommend
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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VMware by Broadcom
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Pros
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
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
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
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
Apptio an IBM Company
Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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Performance
Apptio an IBM Company
Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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Support Rating
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
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
Apptio an IBM Company
Within months
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Alternatives Considered
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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VMware by Broadcom
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Apptio an IBM Company
I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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VMware by Broadcom
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Scalability
Apptio an IBM Company
Works as designed
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Return on Investment
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

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth Screenshots

Screenshot of Filter and refine out-of-the-box graphical and tabular reports to correlate datasets for analysis against your business objectives. Create custom dashboards across clouds and easily build detailed reports from scratch, known as CloudHealth FlexReports, across various dimensions to perform more granular analysis on cost, usage, and asset data.Screenshot of Configure budgets to visualize your expected costs for the year in advance and compare it with actual spend as the year progresses. Create as many overall and categorized budgets as you need to run your business, aligned to your company’s fiscal year. Proactively alert stakeholders when costs are forecasted to exceed pre-defined budgets. Toggle on forecasting for reports to predict future values based on historical data for the interval you define.Screenshot of Use CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to drive consistent operations and continuously monitor your environment. Quickly identify opportunities to proactively reduce spend, remediate risks, and streamline configuration. Get alerted when conditions deviate from your desired state and enable automated actions to execute changes in your environment—stop, start, resize, or terminate infrastructure—all at the frequency you define.Screenshot of Align cloud data to your business with CloudHealth FlexOrgs and benefit from greater control over user access, sharing, and delegation across multiple levels of organizational hierarchy. Further fine tune the platform by dynamically allocating assets to business groups known as CloudHealth Perspectives. View and analyze your cloud environment by project, application, line of business, cost center, and more, to drive accountability for cost and usage.