The forecast is Cloudy - Why Cloudability is a great FinOps Tool
August 22, 2023
The forecast is Cloudy - Why Cloudability is a great FinOps Tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Cloudability
- TotalCost
Overall Satisfaction with Apptio Cloudability
We use Cloudability to see and manage our cloud spend throughout the organization. Cloudability allows us to easily consolidate and normalize our tags for reporting as well as segment our spend into views so that our dashboards and reports show the right information to the right users. Cloudability is able to provide optimization recommendations for each of our groupings as well, helping us target projects to work on and track our progress. Cloudability has not limits on licensing for reporting as well, so we can ensure that everyone with management or operation of cloud spend can have access to see their numbers.
- Reporting is very easy to use for creating new reports and very fast to run with flexibility to develop single reports as well as multi-report dashboards that be shared over multiple teams.
- Integration with other data sources through TotalCost allows for more robust reporting that integrates cost and usage data with other data points from across the business.
- Allows you to consolidate and normalize your tags so that you can easily group your spend and usage regardless of tagging hygiene.
- Rightsizing/Optimization provides easy views into opportunities with details about how to save as well as the ability to track your savings ROI.
- Reporting is based on the assumption that end-users will log into the web-friendly tool, so it does not currently provide export capabilities to all user classes as well as email report functionality.
- Resource inventory reporting is limited to certain services and certain fields; however, Apptio seems to be working to develop out this solution more.
- Rightsizing is limited to EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, and Redshift. It would be nice to see ELB, Gateways, and other services identified for optimization.
- Limited ability to track custom savings opportunities within the tool so that you can build KPI's off progress or lack of progress.
- We've had much better visibility into spending over various cloud vendor services and internal business teams.
- We've improved our ability to do end-of-month reconciliation and simplified the process
- ApptioOne
We purchased TotalCost as well as BI as part of our package and really find it beneficial because of the ability to build custom reporting/dashboards for our month-end-process that not only needs our CUR information, but also needs to reflect our allocation rules. The tools integrate well with Cloudability data and enhance the overall experience.
Cloudability has more calculated fields for the CUR information, simplifying the reporting process. The performance of the tool for dashboarding and reporting is much faster as well as far more flexible. Being able to easily create reports and surface them to users with a few clicks provides much greater benefits over the dashboarding and reporting within CloudCheckr. CloudCheckr does have a more robust resource inventory reporting system with lots of services and data fields. Cloudy surfaces a great deal more opportunities for rightsizing than CloudCheckr too.
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