IBM Cloudability

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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.

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Screenshot of ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNow

Screenshot of an allocation of cloud viewed through the enterprise grade tools to tailor data for chargeback/showback across an organization

Screenshot of intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spend

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Screenshot of ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNow

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

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

Ketan Doshi View 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

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

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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

Flexera Cloud Management Platform

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

CloudZero

Finout

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