#1 most frequent
United States of America
54.9%356 installations of 649
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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Who Buys & Uses IBM Cloudability
#1 most frequent
Information
22.5%146 installations of 650
#2 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
20.6%134 installations of 650
“reporting & dashboard”
#3 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
17.2%112 installations of 650
“Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions.”
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9.9%64 installations of 649
#3 most frequent
Brazil
7.1%46 installations of 649
Pros
- Robust and customizable reporting and dashboards for cloud spend.
- Granular cost visibility and transparency across multi-cloud environments.
- Effective cost allocation and management capabilities.
Cons
- Reporting and dashboard interfaces could be more intuitive with better pre-built templates and export options.
- Limited integrations with external business intelligence and IT service management tools.
- User experience challenges, particularly concerning user management and access controls.
Full FinOps solution, that won't break the bank
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have a very large, diverse Cloud 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.
Pros
- 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
- Business mappings, bunch resources of type/interest together easily using custom created grouping
Cons
- 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.
Return on Investment
- 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
Usability
Other Software Used
Rubrik, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Visual Studio Code
IBM Cloudability Review
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
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
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
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
