IBM Cloudability Reviews & Product Details

IBM Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of FinOps—the cultural practice and operational process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of cloud and related costs. Its enterprise-grade FinOps features enable IT, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud, AI and Kubernetes costs and communicate the business value of these investments. Cloudability normalizes and structures billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems. Its robust set of capabilities enable teams to: • Fully allocate cloud spend, including containers and AI related costs, and support charges—enabling chargeback across the business and continuous improvements to cloud unit economics • Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan • Automatically optimize cloud costs via industry-leading rightsizing and commitment recommendations, allowing you to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments • Make decisions with speed and confidence, powered by team ownership of cloud spend • Allocate shared costs, like specialized technology, labor and vendors, to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud • Support FinOps organizations in Federal agencies via FedRAMP authorized IBM Cloudability for US Federal • Enable Managed Services Providers to ingest, structure, and customize billing data via IBM Cloudability MSP Cloudability enables practitioners with the capabilities they need to drive FinOps forward— with financial accountability, optimized cloud spend and a roadmap for FinOps maturity. With over 10 years of accumulated expertise and innovation, Cloudability is the category pioneer and market leader dedicated to helping you excel at FinOps.

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Apptio, an IBM Company

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IBM Cloudability Community

Languages Supported

English, Japanese

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Lauren Rappold

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

4 months

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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.

Industry leading ML backed proactive rightsizing and commitment recommendations with engineering tasks, multiple outcome options, and details to justify them.

Automation of rightsizing recommendations and throttling for downtime to maximize resource optimization, minimize effort and increase value from cloud investments.

IBM Cloudability Demo - Cloudability Outcome Transparency

Get a complete allocation of cloud with industry leading, enterprise grade tools to tailor your data for chargeback/showback across your organization

IBM Cloudability Demo - Cloud Forecasting

Intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spend

IBM Cloudability Demo - Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection capabilities to stop issues in their tracks via the right people for the job

Cloudability TotalCost

Driving Financial Accountability in Cloud Spending

Intro to Cloudability

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Cloudability Datasheet

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JC D.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"Multi cloud Cost Tracking"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

It provides a single plane of glass view of all cloud spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

It's not fully integrated with Apptio costing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi JC!

Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We appreciate the feedback!

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juliet o.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"Fantastic Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Ease of delivery of meaningful consumption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Poor linkage to existing cost center structures in CT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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Hi Juliet!

Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you.

Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!

Om Prasad S.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/6/2023

"Cloudability, One of the best Cloud Cost Governance Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The best thing about CLDY is to get the Anomaly spend detection which is a great feature to get aware about the excessive spend/day by setting a limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Would have been great to add a feature to link EBS & Snapshots with EC2 when cost of EC2 instance gets generated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satinderpal S.

Chief Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/30/2024

"One stop shop for your cloud economist"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

The most helpful for it being providing support for multi cloud environments, it shows way more details then the AWS recommendations,and has a very user friendly interface, integration with AWS and GCP environments is quite seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

Would be amazing if it can integrate with the data center as well so that there is one stop shop for all costs vs looking at multiple interfaces. Would also like to see Apptio giving more and more customization capability to the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff J.

Job hunter extraordinaire

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/30/2024

"Cloud Cost Management Solutions Need to evolve to cover non-cloud costs"

2.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Aption allowed me to report on and identify wasted cloud spend in multiple clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

At the time Aptio didn't allow me to bring in non-cloud saas and paas spend. For example, competitors allow me to report on my monitoring costs, my cdn costs, my software licensing costs, etc which also need reporting an optimization. See Vantage and Finout for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siranjeevi D.

Product Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/31/2024

"Detailed Cost Savings Report and Dashboard"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

While applications move rapidly to the cloud, the general trade-off is to reach productivity and availability cheaply. Cloudability helps quantify the enterprise spend on cloud and smoothes the communication of cloud financial management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The tool provides complicated recommendations that can confuse and derail new users from picking the right recommendation. Widgets are difficult to understand and can take a good chunk of time exploring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"CLDY Review- Abhisheik Sharma"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

One stop shop for consumption based information as well as rightisizing savings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The visual reporting capabilities lag greatly behind a tableau-like software. Could greatly improve here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/30/2024

"Review"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Easy to create dashboards and support for new products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

API could use some work. Names of items are not the same in APIs. For instance, a business mapping in cloudability might be called a "Super cool item," but in the APIs, it might be called "map3". The unique ID makes sense in case the name is changed but it would be nice to have this ID seen on the business map to find it faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waseem A.

Associate Engineering Manager - Cloud Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/31/2024

"Apptio cloudability in my opinion"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Apptio has easy and simple integration with AWS, NewRelic, K8s etc., it is very simle and easy to integrate and use the data. Also, the Business Mapping feature is very helpful since we have multipl cost tags, cost center tags and mapping this to a product/business is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

The cloudability UI could get better in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/5/2024

"Valuable insights"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Cloudability?

Valuable insights. Easy to navigate and depth of functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability?

New features take longer to be deployed. Support services need to be advanced on technical skills. Performance issues with Apptio BI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability

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We love hearing that you are finding IBM Cloudability valuable and easy to navigate! We appreciate the feedback on features and support services. Would you be willing to give us some more specifics? We want to make sure you're receiving the support you need. Please contact us at Apptio_Customer_Feedback@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com. Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer!