Item: Apptio Cloudability
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudability to enhance our cost visibility and bring cost insights to our end users. Having a product that brings all of our accounts into one single pane of glass greatly simplifies operations and allows us to find cost inefficiencies and tackle them right away. Also, the ability to correlate costs with tags and custom made mappings provides functionality that isn't available with legacy solutions.

Pros and Cons

Reporting
Dashboards
Cost Allocation

Bugs Fixes
Speed of application

Return on Investment

Improved Cost Visibility
Provides guidance on how to reduce cost through it's rightsizing tool

Usability

Tool is easy to integrate with accounts and comes with several reports and dashboards out of the box that makes it easy to start exploring and investigating cost. One downside is the naming of the dimensions, metrics, and filters that require that you know the tools naming conventions beforehand to use the tool to it's full potential.

Apptio Portfolio Solution

ApptioOne

Key Insights

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Apptio Cloudability go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apptio Cloudability again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Does well:

Cost tracking and allocating costs between multiple accounts into one tool
Rightsizing recommendations and the ease of exporting them
Custom mappings and metric creations to transfrom your data the way you want it.

Less appropriate:

Tool can be slow at times
Random bugs arise multiple times that makes the tools unusable.

Amazing Product for Cost Visibility with a super set of features!

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Apptio Cloudability