Item: IBM Cloudability
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Apptio Cloudability

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Apptio Cloudability primarily to aggregate and track ongoing cloud spending for Azure & AWS (and eventually Google Cloud). We also use it to forecast future spending, identify virtual instances that might be good candidates for reservations, notify us of possible spending anomalies, and review detailed spending when needed. We previously used Power BI but it wasn't scalable, updating old tag data was extremely slow, and it didn't easily connect to AWS data (or at least not as easy as it does to Azure data).

Pros and Cons

Pros

Changing historical tag data when things change through "Business Dimensions"
Amortizing one-time costs over a period of time, such as reservation purchases
Creating visuals is intuitive
TrueCost Explorer feature is responsive and very easy to use
Sharing filtered data through reports, dashboards, and visuals is easy
Responsive technical support and customer teams

Cons

Slow to implement larger Apptio functionality due to Cloudability not being a native Apptio application
While improvements have been made, feature parity across major clouds is still not there
For Azure, Rightsizing functionality has not been updated to take advantage of new memory metric monitoring
Challenging to share reports & visuals with those not registered to use Cloudability
Reports are very generic; basically just glorified tables
Cannot customize visuals (colors, text size, etc)
While I appreciate the "no-configuration required" nature of Anomaly Detection, it can generate a lot of false positives
User management is very generic and not integrated with Apptio platform very well

Return on Investment

Provided leadership greater cost visibility into cloud spend, with more details
Leadership and customers can access their cloud data directly from the tool or have reports emailed to them
Easier to identify virtual machines to purchase reservations for

Usability

Easier to use than some other cloud cost management tools but I still wouldn't feel comfortable providing access to those with no Apptio Cloudability experience. The business Dimension feature is very intuitive compared to other tools I've used.

Apptio Portfolio Solution

ApptioOne

While I don't use ApptioOne personally, being able to send our curated Apptio Cloudability cost data to Apptio for further reporting has been extremely useful.

Alternatives Considered

CloudCheckr, CloudHealth by VMware and Microsoft Power BI

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Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloudability delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloudability's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloudability live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloudability go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloudability again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Compared to other cloud cost management tools I have tried in the past, Apptio Cloudability is the easiest to use and has the most attractive visuals. While it does not have full feature parity for the three major clouds, it does better than alternative tools. Maintaining historical tag accuracy through Business Dimension is also implemented very well. I don't personally find their optimization features very useful, especially in regards to Azure.

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Lauren Rappold
(Vendor Representative) commented 3 years ago
Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a fantastic review! We’re happy to hear that Apptio Cloudability is useful to your business. Thanks again!

Easy to use features and attractive visuals, report functionality lacking

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