Apptio/Cloudability - Strength in Reporting!

We utilize the features of Apptio Cloudability in a number of different ways: 1) break down the spend for the various accounts/environments/groups on the 3 main providers we utilize (AWS, Azure, GCP); 2) utilize the optimization recommendations to determine efficiencies to reduce our overall spend using different strategies; 3) understand where there areas for improved governance, mainly around tagging. Because we track spending not just for our internal consumption but also for our external customer's site that we host and manage, it is critical that we receive accurate reporting, ensure we are receiving our negotiated rates for each of the providers, and that we can accurately report the consumption for each of our business units' applications. We try, as accurately as possible, to produce total cost of ownership (TCO) reporting for each of the Cloud-hosted applications. Because we can set up reports and segment access based upon accounts/business units, we can deliver specific reports/dashboards to the different business units and to the various personnel who will access them. We've started to review the recommendations from the tool to better understand where there are potential savings on the various platforms. Our focus has been to reduce the usage of higher-cost CPU/storage/network where possible and leverage reserved instances to reduce our Cloud spend. Finally, we use the governance functions to identify and improve our usage of tagging. The delivered reporting allows us to better understand where we can improve tags to better improve our reporting.