Strong tool for multi cloud cost management for enterprises
September 29, 2025

Strong tool for multi cloud cost management for enterprises

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloudability

We are in the middle of our cloud transformation journey and starting to migrate more and more work loads to the cloud. IBM Cloudability has been helping our finance team a easy to use view where they can go and view our cloud spend. The fact that we have a multi cloud strategy, this product allows us to manage our spend better across vendors.

Pros

  • Multi cloud data aggregation along with easy to view dashboards
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Automation for behind the scenes cost management and allocatoin

Cons

  • Sometimes it is difficult to integrate with internal billing systems
  • Customized recommendations for improving the cost efficiency would be nice
  • Integration or having native workflows to enforce accountability would be great
  • Provided more transparency to the tech and finance team on the cost of operations and areas where we can optimize
  • Allows us to better predict our TCS for future cloud migration based on the current applications moved to cloud
  • Correct chargeback of day 2 cost to different BUs ensure that there are no surprises on the operational costs after we move to the cloud for any particular application
I think the strength of the tool lies in the insightful analytics and reporting (especially if you primarily use AWS). We have different dashboards for tech managers and finance depending on the need - the fact that you can present the same data to different stakeholders based on their needs is great.

The initial setup had a learning curve though, it was time consuming at the beginning but got better as we started to get a hang of it. As with any tool, some of our less tech friendly users sometimes found the interface to be less user intutive
  • None
Not there yet but once we have more applications in the cloud, it may make sense to integrate with other Apptio products
We tried a few different tools as part of a POC but the fact that there is the IBM name attached to Apptio and just the complexity of our enterprise systems was something that we felt was best served by the IBM Cloudability tool. It integrated seamlessly with the multiple cloud vendors we use

Do you think IBM Cloudability delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloudability's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloudability live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloudability go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloudability again?

Yes

We follow a multi cloud strategy and use GCP, Azure, and AWS. IBM Cloudability allows us to consolidate the billing data which allow us to track spending through the dashboards that can be viewed by different stakeholders. Being an enterprise, it is difficult sometimes to allocate the cost accurately to different business units and this tool makes it easier to chargeback. While not the strongest feature but we did leverage some optimization recommendations that helped us reduce the cost for the VMs, databases, etc.

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