IBM Cloudability Review
September 29, 2025

IBM Cloudability Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

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  • Cloudability

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloudability

In My Organization, we leverage IBM Cloudability's various dimensions and granular data to get the curated reports to the business stakeholders and app-owners. we leverage the TBM studio to create the dataset which we have processed internally and the same cost numbers are used to create the org-level Apptio BI based Report which is used by all the app owners to get the costing chargeback related details for the given dimension, application for a given period of time. we also leverage CLDY Apptio BIs visualization capabilities to give the insightful reports to the CIO and higher Management related stakeholders on a monthly/quarterly basis.

Pros

  • Granularity of the Data in IBM Cloudability to create a curated reports for app owners.
  • Business dimensions to customize the IBM Cloudability reports which would've been difficult to create by using native tools.
  • TBM capabilities to let the organization to customize the data rather than just simply having the CSP(Cloud-Service-Provider) based inputs.

Cons

  • Alerts for EKS version upgrade as per the AWS version release calendars, I've already submitted the IDEA on IBM portal, which is accepted, hoping to see this feature in next release.
  • Unit Economics based parameters addition and view for the users to review how they're doing on per unit basis will definitely add some value.
  • Cost Sharing related features I've explored to automate the chargeback process has many blockers. I've discussed this with Tim sweetz my Adhoc, I've already shared the blockers to leverage this cost sharing feature. I would like to see an option to customize the cost sharing apart from just proportional, fix, variable type of cost sharing. there should be an option to exclude/include given line item entry for different types of chargeback as in one of the application will get the support cost allocation but it should not be allocated Management charges. such type of customization will definitely help customers to automate their cost allocations using Apptio CLDY.
  • sharing the curated granular reports with App owners allows them to deep dive and look into the usage type, patterns of the cost, data and accordingly take the actions, be it auto-scheduler or going with RI/SP commitment.
  • By setting the business mappings, we were able to get the cost bifurcation for the dimensions which are internal, this bifurcation helps the business stakeholders getting the insights on how we are doing in terms of cost across various dimensions.
  • By setting up the anomaly filters and adding the app owners as a part of the anomaly alert. we are able to catch the uneven spikes and work with app owners to deep dive and optimize the cost.
I like the IBM Cloudability overall as a Cloud FinOps user. though, I feel there is a scope for better User Interface and lately CLDY is taking longer than usual to export the reports and sometimes it takes litter more time than expected to load the data. I understand that the time required to fetch the data depends on how granular data user has intiated the request. but, many time when I'm creating a granular level data and after loading all the results. it takes so long sometimes to fetch the export that I've to share that report with my colleague and have to ask them to fetch that export for me.
  • IBM Apptio (formerly ApptioOne)
1. Cloud Total Cost:
IBM Cloudability Total Cost allows us to ensure that cloud spending isn’t just tracked at a technical invoice level but is translated into business-relevant insight. helping us control cost, improve efficiency, and maximize value from cloud investments. 2. TBM: this really helped us customized the Cost data with all the pre-existing the dimension. this allowed us to split the cost allocations to app owners and having a single dashboard for all the users to check their cost chargeback and can easily compare all the cloud native costs which are aggregated by unblended, amortized, and can quickly compare the delta between the cost usage and the cost chargeback from their budget to paln the future usage in such a way that their costs are in-line with the budgets allocated.
Recently, I got an opportunity to review this tool in the India Apptio User Conference. Currently, I'm going through the use cases of this tool and checking if this helps us in any of the use cases. also, I've heard from the speaker that IBM Kubecost will be integrated in the Apptio. I would like to see it integrated in the next release.

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

Not sure

Are you happy with IBM Cloudability's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloudability live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cloudability go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy IBM Cloudability again?

Yes

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IBM Cloudability is well suited for below scenarios: 1. An organization which has a requirement of creating the curated reports for the stakeholders with granularity as low as hourly. 2. An organization which wants to have an alternate Savings Plan/commitment related recommendations which can be referred and trusted rather than blindly trusting the cloud native cloud savings plan/commitment recommendations. 3.creating Apptio BI based visualization for the business stakeholders to get quick insights. According to me as per the current features of Cloudability, scenarios where Cloudability might be less appropriate: 1. An organization which is looking for a tool to automate the Cost sharing/chargeback related process. 2. An organization which is looking for a quick unit economics parameter to understand how they're doing. 3. Rating score for different clouds on the parameters like how the customers is doing in terms of the savings potential and savings relalized, which can be shown to management as a proof of success of FinOps Team/scope for more savings.

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