Apptio Cloudability

I think if you are maybe small in your cloud spend and you're only in one cloud, I think you can probably get away with just using the cost management tool in that cloud vendor. I don't think it's necessary for everyone and I think you have to have enough optimizations to have your return on investment, but it's certainly suited if you plan to grow and you're still small, get it now and don't wait.

We have not gotten acceptance and usage across the entire organization, thus I cannot shout from the rooftops how great Apptio Cloudability is without better user engagement. However, TBMC has provided valuable strategies for improving our user engagement.

well suited for anomaly detection, rightsizing. less suited for planning and sustainability estimates

well suited for individual application owners to see their usage, less so for a brokerage admin that manages multiple brokerages and require segregation. Eagerly await GA of CLDY for MSP

In my experience, Apptio Cloudability is best suited for a high-level overview of Cost reporting and management. It gives recommendations to optimize your cloud budget. For example, It will give recommendations by analyzing the past trends which types of machines an application should be using for its optimal performance. It also picks machines, and disks that are not used for long and it predicts any cost anomaly detection. It is less appropriate for other small cloud providers and user training.

Viewing first level information with regards to untagged costs and optimization opportunities. For further deep dives, viewing dependencies and even anomaly detection would look at the CSP functionality

Our firm is a TBM advocate where the Apptio One and Apptio Cloudability compliment each other and further bring finance/IT together to interpret value. Having that perspective is great for C-suite resources who many times do not do well with large complex numbers that cloud data can be filled with. We are a tremendously large shop - supporting over 800 applications/teams - and need that precision of show/chargeback in a tool that is not only easy for us - but compliments end user experience

Reporting needs some improvements

Recommend if you're already using Apptio, qw can be integrated with other Apptio products, however Apptio BI needs more improvement to bring data from different modules and apply "view" of filter at the report level. Which is currently not supported.

Well, in my opinion, Cloudability is performing very well in the current market that is filled with cloud cost management tools like Turbonomics, Cloudzero and many more. But I want to emphasize that it isn't GCP-ready yet and lacks some maturity with Azure as well.

Very well suited for multi-cloud environments where you need a single source of truth for reporting + custom mappings for data. The Business Mappings features is extremely functional & the Dashboard features are as close to a Visualization tool as you will find. Customers with monolithic architectures will get a lot of value out of Right Sizing, and the RI/SP purchasing provide very good (if sometimes confusing) recommendations.
Apptio Cloudability is not a fit for multi-tenant reallocation/telemetry cost. As we expand into these type of architectures, it would be the top reason we evaluate other tools.

Clouability is well suited for getting actual cloud usage, cloud forecasts and dashboards. Some of the rightsizing recommendations are less appropriate.

Cloudability is excellent for cost reporting and aggregating spend from various cloud providers. This was a task performed manually using spreadsheets in the past and disconnected business intelligence tools, however, Cloudability can help us automate and steamline this process which also helps to reduce resource hours. The forecasting reports are helpful, however, we need additional data for it to be accurate.

Apptio Cloudability provides insight into our ever-growing cloud consumption. The use of optimization allows us to better manage our costs.

Tag validation is a snap. Easy to slice and dice costs. Automatic Anomaly Detection Build in scorecards give stakeholders a reason to engage.

Compared to other cloud cost management tools I have tried in the past, Apptio Cloudability is the easiest to use and has the most attractive visuals. While it does not have full feature parity for the three major clouds, it does better than alternative tools. Maintaining historical tag accuracy through Business Dimension is also implemented very well. I don't personally find their optimization features very useful, especially in regards to Azure.

It's better than native tools if you use multiple clouds. It's good for reporting, especially allowing for enriching data by adding other data sets to resource tags. It has a wide variety of graphics for widgets. It is easy to administer, which grows in importance as your user base grows. If you want a tool that excels at providing optimization recommendations, I think you will be disappointed. Also, if you want to driver-based forecasting, as opposed to forecasting based solely on historical trends, it is no help. I can't figure out how to create custom metrics, so it's limited in terms of calculating unit economics. Also, they should have a one-click way to get a report into Google Sheets, like Jira does. It would save me several steps every time I need to export a report into CSV for analysis.