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Apptio Cloudability

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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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Cost Effective Tool!!

9 out of 10
October 27, 2023
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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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Product Details

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:
  • 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.

Apptio Cloudability Videos

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Apptio Cloudability Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services are common alternatives for Apptio Cloudability.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Apptio Cloudability are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Apptio Cloudability is good for large enterprises where they need to bring all their payer accounts, linked accounts, subscriptions, etc into a singular view. It's not great if companies are already well organized and can use cloud native tools to solve their issues. I think Apptio Cloudability costs to much for smaller customers that really could use the help.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 27, 2023

Cost Effective Tool!!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudability can help organizations with multi-cloud deployments to manage and optimize their cloud costs across multiple cloud providers, and it also helps organizations that are adopting FinOps to implement and manage their FinOps practice.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Suitable for small businesses with straightforward cloud requirements and predictable workloads, Apptio Cloudability stands out in situations demanding strong capabilities in budget tracking, forecasting, and cloud spending optimization. Its consolidated view proves ideal for businesses utilizing multiple cloud providers, especially in environments with intricate cost structures. It's the specific needs and scale of an organization to determine whether Apptio Cloudability is the right fit.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Babak Davani , MBA , MS Finance | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Apptio Cloudability has shaved hours of work by allowing me the ability to dig into financial data at the bottom level. It helps me perform historical analyses of cloud usage and costs, and to validate our company's forward looking financial projections.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Apptio Cloudability, is a powerful tool and its use case is expanding rapidly with the growing investment within Apptio BI and now the IBM acquisition. It can handle large amounts of data and it provides great levels of customization for how users can interact with the data. Apptio Cloudability, however, does lack in it's dynamic use cases where users might want to actively drill into visualizations or filter the dashboard content. If you are simply looking for data reports it is able to provide great data at fast speeds.
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