Cloudability you r window into you global cloud spend
CLoudability is used to provide accurate cost reporting of our cloud spend to our stakeholders
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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.
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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.
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What is Apptio Cloudability?
Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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:
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 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.
- Allocate shared costs, specialized technology and labor along with vendors to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud.
Apptio Cloudability Features
- Supported: Visibility: Translates billing and usage data into a unified view to contextualize costs and govern cloud consumption.
- Supported: Cost Optimization: Matches spend to needs, displays reservations and commitment based discounts, and identifies candidates for purchase and modification.
- Supported: Efficiency: Continuously improves the unit economics of cloud with a shared understanding of costs and business value.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, 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.
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April 17, 2024
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
November 28, 2023
Apptio Cloudability Reviewed by a Apptio Partner
I help customers use Apptio Cloudability, I do not personally use it to solve issues that I personally have. The things we do are help customers with organizing their cloud costs so that they can do a showback or chargeback model. Other use cases are to clean up errors in the Cloud billing too, and find opportunities to save money using the cloud through optimization.
- Organizing Cloud Costs
- Reporting
- The Tag Explorer
- Views
- User Management
- Scaling the product to be usable across large organizations
October 27, 2023
Cost Effective Tool!!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
My company uses Apptio Cloudability to manage and optimize our cloud costs. We are a large enterprise with a significant cloud presence, and Cloudability helps us to gain visibility into our cloud spend. Cloudability provides us with a comprehensive view of our cloud costs, including costs from multiple cloud providers, accounts, and projects. This visibility helps us to identify areas where we can reduce our spending and Allocate costs to business units. The scope of our use case for Cloudability is broad. Cloudability also supports our FinOps practice, which is responsible for optimizing our cloud costs and investments.
- We use Cloudability to generate monthly cost reports for each business unit. These reports show the business unit's total cloud spend, as well as a breakdown of costs by cloud provider, service, and project.
- We use Cloudability to rightsize our instances. Cloudability can help us to identify instances that are overprovisioned or underprovisioned. We can then resize these instances to optimize our costs.
- Cloudability currently supports a wide range of cloud providers and services, but it does not support all of the services offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
October 26, 2023
Solid Product, Market Leader
I use Apptio Cloudability for cloud cost management - optimization of cloud spend, resource cleanup during product decommission.
- Clear view of resources associated with products
- Overall view of resource costs by type
- Reporting is clunky
- Filtering is limited and not pervasive between various Apptio tools
- Limited number of fields that can be brought in
October 26, 2023
Almost glowing
I use Apptio Cloudability to chargeback / showback and cuds purchasing suggestions
- Cuds purchasing suggestions
- Chargeback
- Reporting views
October 26, 2023
Apptio Cloudability for AKS and Tenents
As a centralized source of truth for spending, cost and usage to budget our cloud costs. The business problem is reducing cost and optimizing our current resources. The scope includes all departments and organization within AA that uses the cloud for their applications regardless of cloud provider.
- Show usage for each product team as we tag them in our system
- show where each resource can be optimized
- provide widgets for individual users to filter and sort their data and create their own dashboard
- Reports need to be readable across devices (mobile and desktop)
- Kubernetes breakdown on rightsizing at the namespace level (namespace = application for our aks tenant teams)
- Action integrated or automated (down to the namespace level for aks containers)
October 26, 2023
Take a close look at the value of Apptio Cloudability
I have been using Apptio Cloudability for establishing our FinOps practice.
- Dashboards
- Reports
- KPI management
- Complex reports
October 26, 2023
Apptio Cloudability is a great investment
I use Apptio Cloudability for the allocation of cloud costs, and managing engineering teams to budget.
- Custom Dashboards
- Cost Allocation
- Asset Inventory Reporting
- Policies to identify and notify on wasted resources
- Slack Integrations for team notifications
October 25, 2023
Apptio Cloudability provides value to IT
we use Apptio Cloudability help manager our public cloud cost and drive optimization. Our biggest challenge is getting application teams to take action in rightsizing recommendations and turning off when not in use. Our scope is all of enterprise cloud spend
- ease of set up
- ease of building reports
- quick calculation time
- ability to drive business mappings and views based on tables rather than scripts
- IBM cloud spend
- track rightsizing actions take
- carbon impact of recommendations
October 25, 2023
Review of Apptio Cloudability
We use Apptio Cloudability in our bank to better manage the cost of our IT infrastructure on the cloud across multiple cloud providers. It helps us to choose best options for the deployment of our infrastructure in terms of Speed, cost, and quality. Different teams (Finance, Devops) collaborate together to understand the findings from this and make the decision for future use cases.
- Budget management
- Reducing Cloud costs
- Forecasting
- Cost allocation
- Support for Other cloud provides apart from AWS, GCP and Azure
- More granular insights into spending for each department by tagging
- Advanced anomaly detection with AI
October 25, 2023
Apptio Cloudability usage
Optimization of cloud platform and TCO for developers. Costing for containers utilizing Open Shift. Report on cost savings migration of CSP from On Prem
- Container cost
- Reporting time picking
- Report filtering
- Data tagging
October 25, 2023
Apptio Cloudability Review
We currently use Apptio Cloudability for the following key functions (not limited to) Rightsizing, Optimization, Cost Transparency. These details are in turn used to bring business value to different personas within the org. From procurement, to engineering to finance to executives to application owners and so forth. We also look at bringing in the cost details to ApptioOne
- New Apptio BI reporting seems promising
- Showcasing untagged costs
- First step towards rightsizing and optimization explorations
- Anomaly detection
- Combined reporting views from the data sources
- Showcasing the dependencies with the recommendations
- Ability to effective allocate shared costs
We use Apptio Cloudability to identify potential savings opportunities such as RI's and Rightsizings.
- Rightsizing Suggestions
- Classifying CUR Report
- RI suggestions
- API
- Reporting
October 25, 2023
Apptio Cloudability Review
I use Apptio Cloudability for rightsizing.
- rightsizing
- reporting
- ease of use
October 24, 2023
Apptio Cloudability does a great job of managing vast amounts of data to drive action.
We use Apptio Cloudability to actively manage our cloud spend across hundreds of applications. This involves identifying opportunities to reduce or optimize our spend along with holding users actively accountable through a charge back model.
- It can easily synthesize massive amounts of data into digestible formats
- The api integrations allow for unique customizations including integration with our CMDB.
- 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.
October 24, 2023
Save money and eliminate surprises!
We use it currently to increase visibility and help coordinate costs to help us understand our usages across multiple departments who never had insight into this information. Our costs began to spiral out of control and now we have an understanding of drivers and trends. I was recently able to identify a spike in costs on one resource that we met on as a group and developed a strategy to save a good chunk of money on a monthly basis.
- Visualizes the trends.
- Notifications via email to keep us aware of activities.
- Helps us forecast better.
- The modeling is a bit difficult to navigate as a new user in my opinion.
October 24, 2023
Apptio Cloudability for the win
We use for multiple hyper scalers to view spend. Optimize and cross charge
- Optimizing with rightsizing
- Visibility with dashboards
- Email alerts/notificaitons
- Budget and forecastkng
- Reports on quarters
- Report formats are limited in my opinion.
October 24, 2023
Apptio Cloudability Review
FinOps tooling is critical to our operational success and value delivery - Apptio Cloudability acquired our current/previous FinOps engine "Cloudwiry" which has been an invaluable tool to date. Looking forward to continuing the success on Apptio Cloudability platform.
- multi dashboard capability
- Tagging alignment native in tool vs. CSP changes
- Reservation "automation"
- solid/credible rightsiging/optimizations
- price point
- reporting templates
October 24, 2023
Apptio Cloudability - great for finops practitioners, challenging for other user base
Showback to business units on their spend - all users in the organization have access, being transparent about all costs and who is spending what. Use it to drive accountability and ensure we are getting value from cloud investments.
- Like-for-like in different clouds
- Investigate spend trends
- Reporting
- User management
October 24, 2023
Using Apptio Cloudability to Achieve Chargeback/Showbacks
Understand unit costs of resources and applications in the cloud. Monthly project and showback for costs. Cost optimization opportunity and tracking savings from optimization.
- Business labeling based on tagging
- Visualizations and reporting for showback purposes
- CUD/RI recommendations and modeling
- For CUD recommendations - being able to understand recommendations for individual business areas
October 24, 2023
Apptio Cloudability
Finops practice
- Cost Data
- Anomaly Detection
- Reporting
We use if for overall IT cost management and cloud cost management.
- Tagging
- RI Recommendations
- Spend reporting
- higher level reporting
- MSP cost reporting and customer visibility hidden
October 24, 2023
One if not the best!
Its is the perfect enterprise grade tool for enterprise organizations.
- Reporting
- Visibility
- Recommendations
October 13, 2023
Good clarity from Cloudability for Cloud
Cloudabily helps us present and visualise Cloud cost in an effective way. It allows for cost allocation to enhance cost accountability. Provide good trend insight and low hanging fruit recommendations.
- Easy to use UI
- Customisation based on business dimension
- Good reporting capacity that can be scheduled
- TrueCost Explorer and RIghtsizing Explorer provides great overview
- Anamolly detection will be more useful if it can leverage business dimensions
- ASG recommendation are generally too aggressive, will be good to give option to choose the performance metric teams are willing to change and display the chosen metric
- Chart visualisation can be improved, for example, using a consistent colour for a Product or Service Name, and have value labels to differentiate value for different section of the chart
October 06, 2023
Cost analysis made for the cloud
Apptio Cloudability is a cost analysis tool that helps us keep track of what we are using within Azure Cloud. It has helped us keep track of specific costs and breakdown by application owner (with appropriate tagging). This tool also helps us decide future spending requirements.
- Cost Analysis
- Spending breakdown by Product/Application
- Forecast of cost for future budget spending
- Setup of account to communicate with Cloud Providers
- Tagging documentation