Apptio Cloudability

Great fit for integrating all cost views within Apptio Cloudability

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

I think the best value that it offers is visibility for many different user types as opposed to the native tools the products offer that are limited to the engineering teams generally. I think it is appropriate if you have multiple cloud providers as well as it puts everything in the same format for easier reviews.

Normalization of multi clouds helps my consumers see the full spend and possibilities to improve

Not only has Cloudability shown it to be a top-notch product when it comes to Cloud cost analysis, but its customer service support is very responsive. Once you understand the tool (and most of its features), it becomes easy to create reports and show where your Cloud spending is actually going.

Apptio Well-Suited Scenarios: Specifically in Multi-Cloud Environments , cost visibility and transparency, Budget planning and forecasting, cost allocation, chargeback and show back scenarios.
Apptio Less Appropriate Scenarios are Smaller-scale users might find simpler cost management solutions.
If cloud usage is consistent and easy to predict, a more basic cost management tool might suffice.
For organizations with very limited budgets or those looking for more budget-friendly cost management options, Apptio Cloud ability's extensive features might be considered costly compared to other simpler and more affordable alternatives.

Great and usable tool, it provides lots of features and capabilities. Multi cloud provider support and all kind of grapgh and metric coverage make the solution a good fit for all who want to start creating their own cloud cost management platform. They also provide updates and rollout new features on a regular base.

Sometimes the features seems to be added in a very limited fashion, not including the overall platform (eg. tag-based restricted view can not provide access to containers sections).

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.

For FinOps teams with limited staff resources and technical/programming skillsets, Cloudability is a great tool to help you report on and track your cloud usage and spend, easily. The tool aligns well to the FinOps domains and practices defined by the FinOps Foundation and provides robust ways to surface and track opportunities for improvement and automation. For teams looking for automated or very detailed optimization, the tool is lacking services and features. For teams with very specific use cases that require data sets outside of cloud vendors, you may need to invest in the TotalCost package, and even still, you may find some gaps. Overall, I would recommend this tool highly for 99% of users looking for a better way to manage their cloud spend.

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.