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What is IBM Cloudability?

IBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their cloud spend across all cost sources, all maturity levels, and for all stakeholders.

Categories & Use Cases

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ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNow
an allocation of cloud viewed through the enterprise grade tools to tailor data for chargeback/showback across an organization
intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spend
anomaly detection capabilities to stop issues in their tracks via the right people for the job

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IBM Cloudability Review

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Akhila Ravi
Senior Consultant in Engineering at Cariad (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudability for cost data management for our Azure cloud services. Product provides high visibility of the cloud costs as well we utilize the cost sharing feature for the cost allocation which is a cool feature. Also we use the rightsizing and optimisations features within Cloudability.

Pros

  • Apptio BI report features like drill down and linked reports even though performance is poor
  • Cost sharing feature
  • Rightsizing feature
  • Container insights

Cons

  • Apptio BI reporting performance can be improved
  • API availability for apptio BI reporting
  • NEW IBM Report studio having drill down and linked report features in place
  • New IBM Report Studio having dragging facility with ease
  • Cost sharing dimensions compatible with other business dimensions
  • Container dimensions like namespace available for cost sharing reports

Return on Investment

  • Improved visibility across Azure Cloud & Containers

Usability

IBM Cloudability under the hood thoughts

Incentivized
Joe Hetherton
cloud economist in Information Technology at edf (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Cloudability as a FinOps lead or sme within my company, it enables me to pull Azure cost data and build some basic reports. The scope goes from using the product to build monthly cost reports to getting technical change recommendations

Pros

  • ingestion
  • ease of building reports
  • functionality

Cons

  • basic report template examples for FinOps
  • usage data from azure for rightsizing purposes?
  • be able to easily transfer into powerbi or Ms team

Return on Investment

  • value in being able to allocate cost to business units
  • identify savings and cost avoidance opportunities
  • reporting capability

Usability

Other Software Used

Azure Cost Management, Microsoft Power BI

IBM Cloudability

Incentivized
Ketan DoshiView profile
Senior Consultant at The Met (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cloudability as our centralized FinOps and cloud financial management platform. It serves as the "single source of truth" that bridges the gap between our Engineering, Finance, and Leadership teams. Instead of relying on disjointed native tools from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, we ingest billing data from all our providers into IBM Cloudability to create a unified operational view.

Pros

  • Granular Multi-Cloud Cost Visibility
  • Advanced Kubernetes & Container Cost Allocation

Cons

  • Advanced Kubernetes & Container Cost Allocation
  • Intelligent Rightsizing and Commitment Management
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Return on Investment

  • Typical ROI Period
  • Cost savings
  • Unit cost reduction

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Application Gateway

Other Software Used

Azure AI Search, Azure AI Bot Service, Microsoft Power BI

Review

Paul Seward
Senior DevSecFinOps in Engineering at Informa PLC (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cloudability For FinOps and monitoring AWS Costs

Pros

  • Shows costs in nice tables
  • Allows overview of costs
  • Displays where costs are being used

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in IBM Cloudability with Allowing export of reports
  • I think there is room for improvement in IBM Cloudability with Allowing easy ways to replicate tables for many different accounts

Usability

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Incentivized
Grant Havrilenko
FinOps Analyst in Engineering at Ulta Beauty (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we use IBM Cloudability for Cloud Cost transparency, show back/chargeback, resource optimization, budgeting/ forecasting

Pros

  • Clean Dashboards
  • Simple UI
  • Highly Customizable reporting

Cons

  • Integrations with other suite of product (turbo, Apptio planning)
  • Self learned business mapping corrections and dynamic updating of changes
  • Self updating forecasts in CFP

Return on Investment

  • Cloud cost savings
  • Cost Accountability
  • Streamlined Forecasting

Usability

Alternatives Considered

IBM Turbonomic

Other Software Used

SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture

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