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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability is a cloud cost management platform for cloud cost control developed the company of the same name in Portland, acquired and now supported by Apptio (May 2019). The Cloudability also includes additional products, Cloudability Shift to support migration to...
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Apptio 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. Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management - the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud.
Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems so that the user can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling teams to:
- Fully and accurately allocate cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business;
- Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments;
- Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives.
Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems so that the user can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling teams to:
- Fully and accurately allocate cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business;
- Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments;
- Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives.
Apptio Cloudability Features
- Supported: Establish Visibility: Translate billing and usage data into a unified view to contextualize costs and govern cloud consumption.
- Supported: Optimize Costs: Match spend to needs, view reservations and commitment based discounts, and identify candidates for purchase and modification.
- Supported: Improve Efficiency: Continuously improve the unit economics of cloud with a shared understanding of costs and business value.
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Cloudability is a cloud cost management platform for cloud cost control developed the company of the same name in Portland, acquired and now supported by Apptio (May 2019). The Cloudability also includes additional products, Cloudability Shift to support migration to cloud, and the Cloudability SaaS solution that helps users understand, manage, optimize and govern a SaaS portfolio, enabling teams to make data-driven investment decisions without disrupting business performance.
CloudHealth by VMware and Microsoft Azure are common alternatives for Apptio Cloudability.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.3.
The most common users of Apptio Cloudability are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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so far Cloudability has been working great. we have been able to confirm our costs and been able to make decisions based on what Cloudability has provided. I would definitely recommend this product to other companies in a heartbeat!
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March 14, 2023
Cloudability you r window into you global cloud spend
CLoudability is used to provide accurate cost reporting of our cloud spend to our stakeholders
- Provide clearly defined dashboards for Cloud spend
- Provide detailed spend reports for executive levels
- Fully Customizable dashboard based on customer need
- Cloud recommendations provide three scenarios, This can be confusing to novice users
- Easier movement between environments that a user has been given approval to see
- Widgets can get tricky for novice and beginner users
March 14, 2023
Great Cloud Cost Visibility tool
Apptio Cloudability provides a user friendly way for Technology and Finance to align on cloud spend. We are using it for creating savings report and get helps getting the rightsizing recommendations.
- Dashboard creation
- Reports
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Latency issues while running reports
- Add features to get Stopped instances list
- Need cloudwatch related features to optimize the usage
March 14, 2023
Cloudability is good but could have been better.
We use cloudability for cloud cost reporting and optimization on Azure & AWS.
- Cost reporting
- AWS Rightsizing recommendations
- True cost explorer
- Azure rightsizing and RI recommendations
- Utilization reporting
- Anomaly detection
March 13, 2023
User Friendly Cloud Reporting Tool
My organization uses Apptio Cloudability for cloud reporting. As a part of Finance, I use Apptio Cloudability for actual cloud usage, cloud forecasts, and invoice details. My organization previously used a self developed tool for cloud reporting. However as the organization's cloud footprint grew, we needed a more mature tool to report on cloud usage and forecasting. Apptio Cloudability provides a user friendly way for Technology and Finance to align on cloud spend.
- User-friendly views
- Filtering capabilities
- Connections to source data
- Ability to see fiscal year view when fiscal and calendar year differ
- More visual chart options
March 13, 2023
Positive feedback
We use Cloudability for cost visibility into our cloud spend across various cloud platforms. We create dashboards and reports to provide stakeholders with information about spend related to specific applications or business units. This is also used for anomaly detection to understand when we may be deviating from expected and forecasted spend.
- Cost visibility
- Optimization recommendations
- Anomaly detection
- On-prem cost reporting
- SaaS reporting
- Oracle Cloud support
I currently use Cloudability only to help allocate my AWS and AZURE Cloud spending every month. It advises me on how I need to allocate and pay our monthly invoices internally. It's the only tool we have that does this. I also run spend reports, etc. out of it. This is the primary function of my role.
- Calculates cost perfectly by account identifier.
- The Excel export report function works really well.
- Dashboards are easy to read and understand.
- Too many password updates. Wish I could continue to use the same one always.
March 10, 2023
Newbie review
I am new to the Apptio products but find that is very user friendly and easy to use. I use it mostly for Cloud spend
- Total Cloud Spend
- Dashboards
- Reporting
- documentation
- free training
- side panel
Real-time cost reporting analytics
- Real-time cost analysis
- Above-average UI and report design
- Apptio BI is not useful compared to clady reporting
- lack of support for customer-specific issues that take too long to get remedied
- Pricing model not sustainable for heavy cloud users
March 10, 2023
Perspective from the trenches
We use it to manage our billing of our cloud resources, including Azure in multiple tenants throughout our organization.
- Allows specifics on what our billing breaks down to
- Gives us a centralized clearinghouse for multiple tenants across different organizations
- Provides an easy to read detailed summary
- I feel like some of the documentation on setting up the service may be helpful
March 10, 2023
Apptio Cloudability-A Great Choice!
Apptio Cloudability was used for data pulls and subsequent report creations for multiple Product lines. The data used from Cloudability was used to constantly monitor spend within our Azure Cloud structure where we have many Azure subscriptions
- use of widgets for customized viewing
- data filtering
- overall navigation
- quicker updates on data (currently there is approx a 48hr latency in data updates)
- filtering for exactly what you want to view can be a bit less cumbersome
March 10, 2023
Perfect transparency and cost optimization
To introduce transparency of costs for the entire wealth management division on cloud. Make projections and future onboarding decisions. understand spend for every service. Identify where tier selection and optimization needs to be done. We have used it to define Budget thresholds and understand how the overall spend is doing against these thresholds for the year
- cost transparency
- optimization
- forecasting
- inventory
- utilization
- accounting fir new projects in forecasting
March 07, 2023
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Apptio reports are generated for measuring monthly infrastructure costs segregated by individual LOB to granular services being consumed. These reports help in creating monthly reports, which would eventually help in identifying costs associated with inactive applications and also a nice trend in usage. It also provides a monthly view which is helpful while consolidating app cost reporting. My scope would be to consolidate this infrastructure costs associated with applications supported by technology services. App cost report and then tabulate in excel to measure the cost change each month per application. Capture the changes.
- I am capturing costs per month.
- They are showing trends through visualization.
- Ease of use.
- Cost for azure applications.
March 04, 2023
Cloudability and its magic.
Cost is one of the critical factors when we migrate our Applications to the Cloud and expand the business. Cloudability helps us provide insights on how we are spending in the Cloud and provides multiple dashboards to help us understand the spending trending over a period of time, by Cloud resources, by Departments, etc. It also provides information on how Reserve instances or Savings plans are utilized in our Org. I like the automated reports that tell me how much I have been spending since last week on the hosting cost, and oftentimes, this helps me realize that you might have an orphaned resource running in the cloud when you should have deleted it. The recommendation in terms of resource utilization and how we can optimize the usage is a great deal. As more and more products are launched and more employees start to operate in the Cloud, it is difficult to control the cost without having a way to tell us - where we are spending the most and how and then providing recommendations. Cloudability provides that for us, and that is a big win when were are talking about $$$.
- Dashboards and multiple dimensions.
- Recommendations
- Ability to slice and dice, track by Tags, Service type.
- Email report alerts that show the trend.
- Helps to build a forecast and a cost report for the last six months etc.
- More UI/UX improvement.
- Recommendation engine to provide multiple insights into why and how.
Apptio Cloudability was helpful as it allowed me to do a cost analysis of cloud spend and generate insights for a client team meeting. It provides flexibility to play around with different criteria thereby helping determining costs based on tags, projects, resources, etc. Also, the visualization was compact, very detailed and extremely informative.
- Compact, allowing me to view multiple cloud on a single dashboard
- Good customer support
- Customization based on different criteria allows for flexibility
- UI is a bit difficult to navigate and needs training/experience
- Pricey for SMEs
- Found their FAQs to be dated
- Making customizations is not that easy
We use Apptio Cloudability to do a lot of cost analysis and reporting across and large estate of AWS accounts. This allows us to track our daily, weekly, monthly spend on various services across our accounts and make decisions about our trajectory. Some of the default reports are very useful as a template but need to be customized to get the details you want represented properly. The dashoard showing daily spend on AWS services (each service,per account) is one of the most useful parts of Apptio Cloudability.
- Aggregating spend across accounts
- customizable reports based on needs
- Customizable charts and graphs on dashboards
- Simplify the filtering and query language
- Realtime page refresh
- Autofill suggestions when creating reports
March 02, 2023
Apptio Cloudability Review
The organization I work for uses Apptio Cloudability to analyze data of possible savings in our AWS cloud. As we have hundreds of AWS accounts distributed in several departments, there is a need to check if people are properly using cloud, avoiding waste of money and then suggesting optimization changes that could improve our efficiency. Soon we will have Azure as well and then we will use Apptio Cloudability to analyze these data too.
- Find unattached volumes that are not in use that can be safely deleted
- Find instances which have more CPU or memory than it could have
- Discover volume types that are more cost effective than default ones
- Discover instance types with proper CPU/memory values for each use
- Discover resources that are spending huge amount of money
- Interface and filtering must be improved, as it throws a huge amount of data and people get lost without knowing where to start
- View sharing could be made easy
- Make easy to filter by cloud account and resource type
- It could have a way to discard some recommendations, as we have tried some and then had to turn back due to performance issues
March 01, 2023
Apptio Cloudabilty Review
For cloud cost visibility and to enable self-service FinOps capabilities across engineering teams
- Provides basic self service dashboards for data visualization
- I believe GKE cost reporting data is incorrect. I found the data pipeline often broke repeatedly and reported numbers off by millions of dollars and Apptio engineering took as won't fix feature requests 1+ year out in the roadmap.
- I found the data pipeline broke multiple times leaving silent multi day gaps reported with $0 cost leading to incorrect reporting driving business decisions.
- In my opinion, the product very immature on GCP and the product / engineering teams lacked understanding of how many GCP features and cost functioned to onboard into their product.
- When bugs are raised they are always move to feature requests and not fixed in a timely manner, in my opinion. Examples include basic features to prevent duplicate views from being created with the same name.
February 28, 2023
covers your licensing fees in few months.
Great tool, where you got lot of insights about the cloud usage, mainly using this tool it provides the cloud resources recommendations and right sizing of your infra, which helps in cutting down lot of costs and it is a central place to get all billing info, resources info, custom dashboards, views and which makes tool versatile.
Setting up this is very easy and also maintenance is easy to.
Setting up this is very easy and also maintenance is easy to.
- right sizing
- billing
- custom views
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February 28, 2023
Amazing Product for Cost Visibility with a super set of features!
We use Cloudability to enhance our cost visibility and bring cost insights to our end users. Having a product that brings all of our accounts into one single pane of glass greatly simplifies operations and allows us to find cost inefficiencies and tackle them right away. Also, the ability to correlate costs with tags and custom made mappings provides functionality that isn't available with legacy solutions.
- Reporting
- Dashboards
- Cost Allocation
- Bugs Fixes
- Speed of application
February 28, 2023
My Apptio Cloudability experience
Cloudability is being used for cost optimization tracking, resources in AWS such ec2, s3, ebs, rds are being reviewed to identify optortunities for savings, as well it does some recomendations to change type, size or other actions like build auto scaling groups based on the behavior of the service and the most equivalent type available.
- Always available
- Trusted information
- Diffrent recommendations
- Filters
- Self-training
November 08, 2022
Apptio Cloudability Saves
Apptio Cloudability gives us the insights to run efficiently. We use Reserved Instances Rightsizing and Anomalies to ensure our spend is in line with Budgets and in control. It also ensures that our billing is properly allocated to the cost centers based on the tagging. The ease of creating ad box reports also allows senior leadership to see results easily.
- Charts and Graphs
- Ad hoc reporting
- Billing
- Aligning budgets to actuals
- Sit side by side w CT
November 08, 2022
A good product for company using multiple CSP
We want to optimize our cloud consumption. This allow us a full visibility on our multiple cloud provider usage.
- good visibility
- rightsizing opportunity visibility
- Custodial management
- GCP visibility on CUD opportunities
August 19, 2022
Full FinOps solution, that won't break the bank
We have a very large, diverse Azure environment that many departments have apps/services in. It is an easy way to segregate, and break down costs as needed without giving users access to the actual Azure Portal itself. The speed to create dashboards, or run reports is a big advantage when departments need viability of their owns costs.
- Visibility of reserved instances, and recommendations for further savings
- Right sizing suggestions based on VM utilization
- Dashboards - easy to add widgets for quick visibility of desired metrics
- I'd like see the actual VM name in reservation portfolio, rather than the reservation ID
- I find the speed in which the changes are applied a frustration. E.g if you add a business mapping, you often have to wait 24hrs or more for the data to fully process.
- The user management seems a little clunky, I preferred it when it was part of the actual Cloudy portal, rather that through access administration.
August 10, 2022
Apptio Cloudability Aces Cloud Management
We just started with Apptio Cloudability. I'm impressed with the ease of setting it up (after getting over internal hurdles). The reports are very useful. This application is very useful in demonstrating the value of cloud spend.
- Easy installation
- Valuable out-of-the-box reporting.
- Simple, integrated security.
- Have only set up Azure so looking forward to seeing how difficult it will be to integrate other cloud service providers.