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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

You can see all your cloud costs/usage in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Reporting is cumbersome-time consuming to create customized reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visibility of our cloud spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thank you for sharing how IBM Cloudability is helping you gain visibility into your cloud spend. We are committed to continuously enhancing our platform to better meet your needs.

IBM Cloudability Overview

What is IBM Cloudability?

IBM Cloudability from Apptio, an IBM Company, is a cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud. Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management - the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud. Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems so that the user can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services, enabling teams to: - Fully and accurately allocate cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business. - Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan for your cloud. - Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing and commitment recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments. - Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives. -Allocate shared costs, specialized technology and labor along with vendors to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud.

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Cloudability offers cloud cost managment, optimization and efficiency tools. It is designed to collect and store all user's cloud bills and AWS usage data, then organizes it into simple, customizable reports users can share.


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Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Its AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions. A pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide. Visit www.apptio.com.


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Brian T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Excellent Finops Product"
Solid product that ingests all of the relevant data from our cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). and provides transparency and savings insights acro...
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"Cloydability as a single pane of glass"
At American we have been able to create visibility for our cloud spend vs budget as a single pave of glass with this tool. It is a huge step toward...
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"Transparency and visibility into all cloud costs in central place"
You can see all your cloud costs/usage in one place
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IBM Cloudability Demo - Curated Multi-Cloud FinOps Dashboard
Enable teams to continuously improve the economics of running cloud with intelligent mappings, dynamic reports, dashboards and recommendations.
IBM Cloudability Demo - Rightsizing
Industry leading ML backed proactive rightsizing and commitment recommendations with engineering tasks, multiple outcome options, and details to justify them.
IBM Cloudability Demo - Automation
Automation of rightsizing recommendations and throttling for downtime to maximize resource optimization, minimize effort and increase value from cloud investments.
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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

It's a really intuitive software, it's easy to teach people how it works. It also cleans up the noise with the GL by providing only the data you're asking to see. It's a clean UI and is organized very well. The rightsizing recommendations have provided a lot of benefits to our team and the newly added snoozing functionality is a great help when looking at potential savings! We have some other tools where we just retrieve the data they provide via APIs since their UI is too convoluted, but we never run into that issue with Cloudability. Lastly, their APIs are a huge help to our team when we've needed to pull the data into our custom internal reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

When creating a dashboard, you can't bring multiple datasets into the same dashboard. Cloudability works in segmented tabs, so rightsizing lives on one page, cloud spend lives on another, same with budgeting / forecasting. It would be beneficial if they could bring it all together in one system, so end users could see a mix of datasets in one dashboard. Apptio BI has been a great solution to this problem from the initial tests we've had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

our organization built an internal tool where users had to check their cloud spend account by account. However, cloudability lets you create views, which has been really beneficial for team leads that manage 20+ accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability
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Hi Joshua!

Thank you for sharing your detailed feedback on IBM Cloudability! We're thrilled to hear that you find our software intuitive, organized, and beneficial for your team. Your insights on dashboard functionality are valuable, and we appreciate your suggestions for improvement. We are constantly working to enhance our platform and provide a seamless user experience, so your feedback will be shared with our development team. If you have any further suggestions or encounter any issues, please feel free to reach out to our support team. We are here to assist you and ensure you continue to benefit from using IBM Cloudability.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Solid product that ingests all of the relevant data from our cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). and provides transparency and savings insights across multiple levers for each. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Reporting is not great for reporting on containers, escpecially for AWS. We would like to get better information for usage and potential savings as well. This has improved over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides the best reporting solution by ingesting the several million rows of data each month. Gives us insights on how to best perform finops - savings for multiple opportunities, anything from undersubscribed CPU/storage, unused instances, Allows us to customize the reporting to target specific focus areas: tagging, reserved instances, efficiencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

Hi Brian!

We're glad to hear that IBM Cloudability is providing you with valuable insights and transparency across multiple cloud providers. We appreciate your feedback on the reporting for containers and AWS, and we are continuously working to improve in those areas.

We would like to invite you to join other Apptio customers around the globe by interacting in our IBM Community, an exclusive online forum made up of Apptio and IBM customers, Partners, and Employees. It’s a great place to learn, connect, share and grow together. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/apptio/home

User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

Jamie C.
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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

It is easy to forget with my finance background that engineers don't speak the same language. I love that Cloudability allows for the reporting of both financial and usage metrics so we can introduce the engineers to the finance side. I also appreciate how everything I need the engineers to look at and consider resides in one tool and also allows for self-serivce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

I do wish that views didn't have to be created based on Account ID or Name to filter down all of the tool (Anomaly and Rightsizing). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our engineers had no visibility prior to this tool on what their projects were costing our company or what levers could be pulled to adjust their cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

Hi Jamie!

We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you!

We would like to invite you to join other Apptio customers around the globe by interacting in our IBM Community, an exclusive online forum made up of Apptio and IBM customers, Partners, and Employees. It’s a great place to learn, connect, share and grow together. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/apptio/home

Also, user groups are a great way to connect. User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

KD
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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The way we can make cloud visible and allocate costs to our end users! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

How some of the products are disjointed. The way we allocate costs in Total Costs but have to toggle to Cloudability to realize other reports and dashboard data. Front end application users should not have to learn how to toggle these systems. We would like to use Rightsizing and other features but does not seem to work well withthe data we have in Total Cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making cloud visible. We previously did not have this visibility and this helps solve that for app teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

End users can get the data they need at a glance and drill into cost composition detail quickly and easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The reports offer very little flexibility and visualization, and the dashboard UI is at times too rigid, especially with Apptio BI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Combined with a relatively mature FinOps practice, Cloudability provides our FinOps team, IT leadership, and engineers valuable insight into the makeup of our cloud spend, has given actionable rightsizing insights, and enables us to track against budget in one simple place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

We found that Cloudability gave us a much simpler and more useful breakdown of our costs vs the Cost Explorer in AWS, though AWS is always improving their own tools. We also really liked the monthly reports of which direction costs were trending for which services. It was overall a helpful tool in planning our reserved instances, and we liked that it consolidates reporting from multiple cloud service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

We found the contract/renewal/billing process to be quite opaque, and didn't have the best experience making changes. Part of this is due to our contract renewal happening during staffing changes internally. We had to contact support to resolve billing and account closure issues. Our account manager was not able to help us easily with changes to our account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our goal with Cloudability was to make informed decisions about AWS Reserved Instances, and attempt to forecast and control our AWS spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We strive to make our customers wildly successful, and we’re sorry to hear that we missed the mark here. We have taken your feedback on board, and we will strive to make improvements accordingly. To further show our deepest apologies and gratitude, would you please consider emailing us at customerfeedback@apptio.com to discuss this further?

Kind regards,

Apptio Team

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

I think it's solving a problem that is only going to keep getting bigger in a user friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

We are only in a pov so I cannot answer that accurately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think it will help us organize our cloud spend as it continues to grow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability
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Hi Domenic!

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with IBM Cloudability. We hope it continues to meet your needs as your cloud usage expands.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

IBM cloudability has the ability to bring cloud spend and usage data to the fingertips of finance, and make it easily digestible, and . Cloudability also makes it easier to collaborate with IT and FinOps on cloud costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

For the total cost module, it is not intuitive to filter data for multiple months / a custom time period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visibility into cloud spend / forecast and variances. Helping to increase collaboration between previously siloed finance, IT and FinOps groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

We are using it to get the cost reporting and the critical success factor is dependability and adaptability. This is of great use for us to measure and work on the cost reduction.

It is more flexible to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The Kubernates cost is one of the critical requirement where we are still facing issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

We depend on this to get the consolidated view of all our cost and how to optimise our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Best and overall, Apptio Cloudability provides us the cost visibility from across the multiple cloud providers and their various services. This is tremendous help with our budgeting and ROI calculations and such. The visibility and clarity leads to better cost optimization that the platform also provides recommendations for based on usage. We don't need to do manual calculations or individual calculations from each cloud providers. Platform integrates well with our tech stack. Very easy to use and onboard. Their customer service is very helpful throughout the implementation and any other day to day support. The reporting and analytics is perfect for our needs as well, throughout our frequent use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

While the platform is feature rich, the only negative I think is the complexity with navigation and setting/administration of it. The cost optimization that is recommended by platform is not easy to implement - though it's a great insight. But these are not the hurdle we can't overcome - compared to lot more benefits and the visibility in our cloud costs that it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are loving the visibility that this platform provides with cloud cost management.It provides comprehensive view of all our multi cloud providers' costs and their services. Through the cloud management features/functionalities - we are able to scale/maintain the performance of the different cloud instances and use the in-built recommendation that the platform provides for cloud cost optimization (by providing rightsizing options, optimizing storage usage etc.). It saves costs , finds any inefficiencies and brings better visibility into a single pane of glass. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.