IBM Cloudability Reviews & Product Details

Cloudability is useful for our organisation, specifically for:

• Customisable/Personalised dashboards to monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs

• Chargeback reporting including custom dimensions and metrics related to spend and usage

• Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimisation

• Resource inventory data to identify underutilised resources

• Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions

• Tagging reporting

• Ad-hoc dashboard builds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are limitations in a few areas, and specifically we would like to see improvements in:

- Enhanced and automated rightsizing recommendations

- Reports around savings made from actioning recommendations

- Enhanced forecasting models

- Custom calculations available in Apptio BI, currently these are limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great insight into Cloud spend and cloud utilisation data. Cloudability has given us a platform to properly understand our cloud spend, how our cloud spend is trending and actions we can perform to optimize our cloud spend. It has empowered us to make metric based decisions and greater proactivity in addressing cloud usage before the big bill lands at the end of the month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This isn't a cheap tool, and for many organisations they will potentially just see this as "more cloud cost" and therefore not realise the benefits such a product and solutions can provide them.

There are some minor improvements we'd like to see, particularly around rightsizing recommendations and preferences. For example you can avoid certain instance types for EC2 in AWS but you can't do the same for EBS and avoid SC1 storage. This leads to a lot of rightsizing alerts which either have to be snoozed or filtered.

There could also be improvements as to how cluster costs are, particularly around deeper insights of usage of resources and networking, hopefully future integrations with newly acquired Kubecost will improve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to finops visibility across multiple clouds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is very hard to identify the resources entity variables to be able to pull it into report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Container insights and cost transparency , ability to create business dimensions, ability to create views using business dimensions, cost sharing feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Huge cost difference between reporting and container insights , views created with BM or tags are not supported for most of the cloud ability features like container insights , cost sharing feature doesn’t have container dimensions under allocated data source , apptio bi performance is really poor at times . Also we often get issues on loading commitment recommendations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

The Multi Cloud Visibility in one single platform

Enhanced recommendations including multiple risk options

The consistent new features and capabilities being released Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heavily focused on AWS and not all features as helpful for other major CSPs such as Azure - pass through recommendations only as an example.

CSA also only for AWS EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The visibility we gain from our cloud cost consumption and the added ability to inform various personas within our organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of training available sometimes feels as though we are not maximizing our potential and it also restricts our opportunity to support our stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudability has been great for us to get cost visibility for our multi cloud environment. This, coupled with the tagging functionality has helped us accelerate our FinOps journey and being accountability of spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a bit slow and clunky at times. Trying to dive deeper into analysis can be difficult compared to the cloud service provider native cost management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The transparency it gives to our users, and the dynamic conversations it leads too, to add the value our business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the time it takes to run queries while being on a live demonstration to my business units. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoy the quick dashboards, fast reporting on the large dataset and the flexibility on managing business context with normalized tagging, business maps and tagging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

reporting on the disjointed datasets only possible in Apptio BI, which is slow and have certain limitations on presentation as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.