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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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Deloitte (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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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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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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.
- Improved visibility for all involved users.
- Allowed for transparency and conversation around cloud usage and best options.
- Saved us money due to a variance alert.
- ApptioOne
It has actually been significantly difficult in my experience as I have been tasked at managing both in our organization, so I am Apptio Cloudability Admin and TBMA for our department trying to roll this out to users of both and help develop a TBM Office as well as a CCOE just seems like it should be discouraged to the buyers of the product.
I have not used any other products.
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Engineers, Finance team, Cloud Users and managers
1
I think it takes a full person to support.
- Control of spend.
- Understanding of utilization.
- Transparency of information across departmental borders.
- None yet.
- Save money with RI usage.
- Better understandings through tagging and business mappings.
June 16, 2023
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.
- We have seen some substantial cost reductions as a direct result of rightsizing/utilzation suggestions. An estimated 18% per month
- Greater visibility of allocation of spend, highlights areas to concentrate on for potential reductions, or justification
- Positive engagement with service owners from other departments so they are now able to have insights of their spend, this was not possible before without manual reports being generated form Azure portal
- Targetprocess
N/A we currently only use Cloudabilty
Cloudabilty was implemented before I joined the organization, so apart from the Azure costings blade, I have no experience of alternatives.
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Senior managment/Team managers and Cloud admins
1
Certified Microsoft Azure administrator, and FinOps certified
- Views of actual spend
- Forecasting costs
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Compute utilization
- Apptio BI
- Customizable dashboards/views
- Business mappings to caputure untaggable spend
- Multi cloud platforms
No
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
It can capture both Azure & AWS costs. Simple dashboards to share with stakeholders
N/A - Product satisfies our needs fully
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- SSO intergration
- No Training
Easy and intuitive, plenty of FAQ's and online documemntation available
Tagging/labelling the environment can save a lot of effort in the long run
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
N/A Built in features serve our needs adequately
I'm not sure, I wasn't involved in contract negotiations, although the support is more than adequate
Yes
Had some issues with cost duplications, solved in a timely manner
Every time I have needed assistance, the service can't be faulted.
- Dashboards
- Business Mappings
- Custom Views
- Account Groups
- Some of the optimization features are a little clunky
- AWS
- Azure
Simple process, processes are documented well
- Not at the moment
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
We extract some data for displaying certain metrics in Power BI, we intergrated Cloudy with our on prem AD servers for SSO
Keep apptio support at hand
I wasn't involved in this process
Vendor makes processes very easy in my experience. Although it is advantageous to have a clear idea of want you want from the product
Yes
Down time was longer than anticpated, but comms with support was clear and open at all times
- Rightsizing
- Utilization
- Optimization features
- Not sure
No
No
March 07, 2023
Apptio Usage.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- nil
- ApptioOne
300
Across business. Whoever is the technology owner of the app can look into the Apptio reports to know the in-depth infrastructure costs associated with their application.
- Generate monthly reports.
- Identify services and cost trends.