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    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A

    Workato

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AWorkato is a cloud or on-premise automation and integration platform with enterprise-grade capabilities and no coding required. Workato provides pre-built connectors to integrate with over 300 business applications and enables task automation across apps.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Editions & Modules
    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
    Varies - Request a Quote
    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsVolume discounting available.—
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    Community Pulse
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Workato
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    61 Answers
    57%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    57 Answers
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    62 Answers
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Turbonomic and Workato
    Feature
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    31 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Workato
    -
    Ratings
    Cloud Management Security7.522 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration8.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Management7.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring8.131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance7.829 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management9.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Systems Integration6.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM Turbonomic and Workato
    Feature
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Workato
    8.0
    38 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings5.034 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (163 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    IBM TurbonomicWorkato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Workato
    Workato is brilliant to make separate applications work together without much effort or specialists being needed. When specific events on software A should trigger actions on B (or more) and you want that to happen without any development or big budgets, that's where Workato comes into play. It's a great help if you want tasks automated, communications flowing and data synced between different applications.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Workato
    • The Workato product interface is brilliantly thought through and designed. The learning curve for first timers is easy enough to get started and build useful things, and Workato really shines in their ability to handle complex triggers and interactions. Workato allows people to build software apps so much faster than by coding each functionality.
    • Workato has fantastic documentation, making things accessible without any holes in the product. The product just works, never has any bugs, never lags, and just generally allows us to see and change exactly what we need to.
    • Workato has an absolutely amazing support team. We tried the free version for a while, then realized it was the single most important software tool we have, and we upgraded. The support at the paid tier is A+, seriously the best from any company we've worked with. Feels more like a good friend then a support rep.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Workato
    • Customer support - responsive, but often not equipped to help efficiently identify root cause of issue. Need to improve escalation to technical resources and turnaround time
    • Recipe organization and sharing. Can be challenging to copy recipes, or grab recipes from publicly available site. There are often dependencies and errors that have vague descriptions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Workato
    We need to develop Enterprise Application Integrations and Workato was not designed for this
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    Usability
    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Workato
    The sheer work Workato eliminates from people's daily jobs is simply a great contribution to people's productivity and a boost to capability. It actually strikes the balance between business and tech teams. It also reduces dependency on developers, and speeds up their delivery too. The only reason it's not a full 10/10 is for the price - it's a bit expensive for what we'd like, and their batch or high data volume processing can be improved.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Workato
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    Performance
    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Workato
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    Workato
    They employ an extremely knowledgeable team of problem solvers. I've never had a disappointing interaction or one that has left me still searching for answers. I know that when I ask for help, they'll partner with me until we find a solution together
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Workato
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    Online Training
    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Workato
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Workato
    We discovered that we could not use Workato for our more complex, large enterprise integrations. It was useful for simple workflows that matched the prebuilt recipes.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Ease of Deployment
    Turbonomic is straightforward to implement compared to other platforms that require complex configuration. This reduces time‑to‑value and accelerates adoption.Fast Visualization of Results
    The platform provides clear, real‑time dashboards and recommendations. Unlike competitors that may require manual report building, Turbonomic delivers immediate visibility into resource utilization and cost impacts.Native Kubernetes Integration
    Turbonomic integrates directly with Kubernetes, enabling automated scaling and resource optimization at the container level. This native capability is a differentiator, as many tools rely on external connectors or partial integrations.
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    Workato
    We already used Zapier, but since it doesn't support NetSuite we had to choose another automation platform. Now that we've been using Workato for a few months, we have plans to move the stuff we're going through Zapier to Workato. We set up a trial account with all the other platforms, and they were all more expensive and A LOT more complicated than Workato.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Workato
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    Professional Services
    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Workato
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    Workato
    • As business consultants, Workato has greatly improved our offerings to our clients as well as improved the time frame to implement automated workflows and integrations.
    • For our clients, the return on investment is almost immediate. Once a Workato recipe is up and running (which can be done very fast), data is integrating, duplicate data entry and user errors are eliminated, and cross-company KPI metrics are easier to report than ever.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.