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Apptio Cloudability - Valuable features for the right use cases, but limitations apply
August 23, 2023

Apptio Cloudability - Valuable features for the right use cases, but limitations apply

Michael Barba | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Cloudability

Overall Satisfaction with Apptio Cloudability

  • Single source of truth for cost and usage reporting across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure & GCP).
  • Significantly leverage Business Dimensions & Business Metrics to respectively create custom mappings & custom equations that are inputs into many of our financial reporting processes.
  • Apptio Cloudability API leveraged to expose cost data to PowerBI for operational reporting alongside other business data (Salesforce).
  • End users are granted access to their Views based on data they need to see & are enabled with dashboards and reports to track and manage their own spend.
  • FinOps power users leverage RI, SP and CUD purchasing modules to help make purchase decisions.
  • In-month forecast estimation (not perfect feature, but good enough for directional updates).
  • Business Mappings API
  • Granular Reporting
  • Relatively easy to configure with IaaS vendors
  • Cost Reallocation - Not offered for Multi-Tenant, Cost Sharing is a Beta feature that is very limited in function & not able to reallocate rules
  • Resource Inventory - big gap vs. what CloudHealth offers, beta feature is good but it can't save/subscribe to reports
  • Anomaly detection - feature highlights trivial cost rises & consistently misses the real anomalies
  • End users taking ownership of own usage & driving their own cost optimizations
  • FInOps-led optimizations around usage reduction & reservation purchasing
  • Source of truth for financial reporting using business mapping feature
Very strong tool, nearly as clunky as older tools like CloudCheckr and much more fully featured than newer tools like Pileus. It's easy to get started with drilling into data for experienced FinOps users; others end users have a learning curve, but I don't think that's specific to Apptio Cloudability.

The biggest drawback I find is the tool is buggier than others (e.g. CloudHealth), and constantly having to refresh a browser makes for a poor user experience.
  • ApptioOne
We have tested Apptio BI - the visualizations are slightly nicer, but the inability of Apptio BI to support 'Custom Start Date to Date' & to only send you an email URL when you try to export CSV data makes it a service we have stopped using in favor of standard Apptio Cloudability.
I have used CloudHealth, CloudCheckr (since acquired by Spot) and Pileus (now Anodot) are prior companies.

CloudHealth is really the only tool that compares well with Apptio Cloudability. CloudCheckr has a very clunky UI and is totally absent of Business Mapping features. Anodot has a good UI, but it feels too similar to Cost Explorer and is missing many of the modules that make Apptio Cloudability and CloudHealth easy to use out of the box.

Areas where Apptio Cloudability exceeds:
  • Business Mappings & Metrics
  • Dashboards
  • Cost reporting (CloudHealth doesn't always match invoicing)
  • Cost Reporting

API Areas where CloudHealth exceeds:
  • Asset reporting
  • Subscriptions + Alerts
  • Cost reallocation (not necessarily best in class)

Areas where both add value vs. native tools:
  • RI/SP recommendation

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

Very well suited for multi-cloud environments where you need a single source of truth for reporting + custom mappings for data. The Business Mappings features is extremely functional & the Dashboard features are as close to a Visualization tool as you will find. Customers with monolithic architectures will get a lot of value out of Right Sizing, and the RI/SP purchasing provide very good (if sometimes confusing) recommendations.
Apptio Cloudability is not a fit for multi-tenant reallocation/telemetry cost. As we expand into these type of architectures, it would be the top reason we evaluate other tools.