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 (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
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
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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 fee
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Community Pulse
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IBM Cloudability
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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft Power BI
Chose IBM Cloudability
I personally think Cloudability is great, but sells themselves short in some areas of functionality, or it may have the functionality but it's difficult to fully realize it as there are so many filters and ways to build a reports, also can the dashboards be shared easily into …
Chose IBM Cloudability
From the limited time that I've been there, I mean in the renewal talks it's been, I think Cloud Zero was another competitor that we were in talks with, but I'm not entirely sure what direction we're going. That's above my pay grade.
Chose IBM Cloudability
IBM Cloudability is more dense and scalable to meet other more comprehensive cloud focused business planning needs
Chose IBM Cloudability
we only use it to upload the data. that is all we use it for at this point but would love to see what else we could use it for.
Chose IBM Cloudability
Our organization chose IBM Cloudability over other products because, in our opinion, IBM Cloudability stacks up very well.
Chose IBM Cloudability
AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor
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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).
Chose IBM Cloudability
not using any similar products, but Cloudability is able to provide all necessary features and functionality for our organization and our customer to get the right information on their cloud spend. The ability to customize the dashboard is also a very useful feature. …
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Turbo, cloud health
Value/ relationship with IBM
Chose IBM Cloudability
Our organization chose IBM Cloudability because, in our experience, Overall, IBM Cloudability is a better product.
Chose IBM Cloudability
For a single project and quick analysis about why my costs when overboard or why forecast is showing more than my budget, it is much easier to use AWS Cost Explorer over IBM Cloudability. I think this area should definitely improve and do some smart suggestions using AI …
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
I believe that one complements the other, and it was great that Apptio brought them together on the same front.
Chose IBM Cloudability
Apptio Cloudability (pre-IBM acquisition), CloudHealth by VMware, AWS Cost Explorer, and Azure Cost Management. Each has its strengths, but Cloudability stood out for its multi-cloud coverage, commitment discount optimization, and finance-friendly reporting capabilities.
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 …
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 …
Chose IBM Cloudability
When we purchased they were close but we preferred some bits like forecasts
Chose IBM Cloudability
- Comprehensive cloud cost analytics- Effective cloud optimization tools- Strong multi-cloud management capabilities
Chose IBM Cloudability
IBM Cloudability does better on a lot of aspects. Still there are certain features that are exclusive to each product.
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

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User Ratings
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
6.5
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Usability
7.8
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Availability
6.4
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Performance
5.5
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Support Rating
2.3
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In-Person Training
1.0
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Online Training
7.3
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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Configurability
6.4
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Ease of integration
7.3
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Product Scalability
6.4
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Vendor post-sale
7.3
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User Testimonials
IBM CloudabilityVMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Likelihood to Recommend
Good tool to start FinOps journey in a medium sized (or above) company. Currently missing AI capabilities that are now available with a lot of FinOps vendors in the market. Also, apptio currently does not have FOCUS dataset nomenclature, that can be worked upon.
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Pros
  • It shows the visibility into the cost and a single pane of glass for all of our cloud providers, multiple products in those multi-cloud. So it shows us our spending across the cloud by vendor, by product, and by all the tags that we have in the cloud. So it gives us visibility into many different directions in our cost.
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Cons
  • There is currently no ability to apply global filters over the data in cloudability. Rather users must go through a difficult process to create custom views which they are later able to apply over top of their datasets.
  • Drill functionality does not really exists but appears to be more of an after though add-on. Yes you are able to "drill" but the visuals disappear and even the ability to export the more detailed information.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
In terms of setting up the Apptio Cloud ability and configuring the Cloud Subscriptions and Accounts its very much clearly defined and also in terms of the User interface its very rich in terms of the navigation and look and feel factors its cool.
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Reliability and Availability
Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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Performance
Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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Support Rating
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
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
Within months
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Alternatives Considered
From the limited time that I've been there, I mean in the renewal talks it's been, I think Cloud Zero was another competitor that we were in talks with, but I'm not entirely sure what direction we're going. That's above my pay grade.
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Scalability
Works as designed
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Return on Investment
  • Has allowed for more Directors to be up to date with their Budget data and know where they are standing
  • Has saved thousands of dollars in that each agency does not have to pay for individual budget management.
  • Has saved hours of time by making the data easily uploadable instead of having to manually organize all the data.
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ScreenShots

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

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.