Overall Satisfaction with Apptio Cloudability
We have a very large, diverse Azure 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Targetprocess
N/A we currently only use Cloudabilty
Cloudabilty was implemented before I joined the organization, so apart from the Azure costings blade, I have no experience of alternatives.
Do you think Apptio Cloudability delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Apptio Cloudability's feature set?
Yes
Did Apptio Cloudability live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Apptio Cloudability go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Apptio Cloudability again?
Yes
Using Apptio Cloudability
10 - Senior managment/Team managers and Cloud admins
1 - Certified Microsoft Azure administrator, and FinOps certified
- Views of actual spend
- Forecasting costs
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Compute utilization
- Apptio BI
- Customizable dashboards/views
- Business mappings to caputure untaggable spend
- Multi cloud platforms
Evaluating Apptio Cloudability and Competitors
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
It can capture both Azure & AWS costs. Simple dashboards to share with stakeholders
N/A - Product satisfies our needs fully
Apptio Cloudability Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
- SSO intergration
Apptio Cloudability Training
- No Training
Easy and intuitive, plenty of FAQ's and online documemntation available
Configuring Apptio Cloudability
Tagging/labelling the environment can save a lot of effort in the long run
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
N/A Built in features serve our needs adequately
Apptio Cloudability Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Quick Initial Response | None |
I'm not sure, I wasn't involved in contract negotiations, although the support is more than adequate
Yes - Had some issues with cost duplications, solved in a timely manner
Every time I have needed assistance, the service can't be faulted.
Using Apptio Cloudability
Pros | Cons |
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Relatively simple Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | Difficult to use |
- Dashboards
- Business Mappings
- Custom Views
- Account Groups
- Some of the optimization features are a little clunky
Apptio Cloudability Reliability
Integrating Apptio Cloudability
- AWS
- Azure
Simple process, processes are documented well
- Not at the moment
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
We extract some data for displaying certain metrics in Power BI, we intergrated Cloudy with our on prem AD servers for SSO
Keep apptio support at hand
Relationship with Apptio
I wasn't involved in this process
Vendor makes processes very easy in my experience. Although it is advantageous to have a clear idea of want you want from the product
Upgrading Apptio Cloudability
Yes - Down time was longer than anticpated, but comms with support was clear and open at all times
- Rightsizing
- Utilization
- Optimization features